Lucy Kanya

Dr. Lucy Kanya has a Health Economics and Health Policy background and has dedicated 17 years contributing to the generation of or translation of evidence for health systems strengthening in Sub Saharan Africa. This has been through academia and research. She is passionate about health care financing and, maternal and child health in Sub Saharan Africa countries. Lucy uses implementation science approaches to support governments in the introduction and scale up of evidence-informed nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific interventions aimed at addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.

Lucy joined GSoS in May 2025 from LSE’s Department of Health Policy where she supported establishment of the African Health Observatory Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP). The AHOP is a collaborative partnership fostering cross-country learning to promote knowledge exchange and evidence-informed policy-making. Dr. Kanya is working with Prof Elizabeth Robinson and Dr Shouro Dasgupta to set up the Food(in)security Lab at GSoS.