As a senior consultant with GHV, Kevin Osborne works in a cross-cutting capacity, including work with GHV on women’s health and primary health care, locally led development, and advocacy leadership planning and workshop facilitation. With more than 25 years in public health and policy, Kevin brings experience in pioneering major projects and approaches to shaping responses toward sexual and reproductive health and HIV linkages at the policy, systems, and service delivery levels to his portfolio.
Kevin has extensive experience in managing diverse teams and supporting large-scale advocacy initiatives. With a background in education and human rights, Kevin has managed a number of national and regional programs – particularly across Africa – by forging sustainable partnerships with government, communities, UN agencies, the private sector and donor stakeholders. Many of these have focused on addressing the structural barriers that impede service access. The PLHIV Stigma Index – which is now routinely used as a tool to capture changes in HIV-related stigma and which has been applied in over 45 countries – was his brainchild.
Most recently, Kevin served as the executive director of the International AIDS Society in Geneva. Additional previous roles include chief of party for the PEPFAR- and USAID-supported key population-focused LINKAGES project in Washington, DC, South Africa Country Director for PATH, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Global HIV Advisor in London.
Born in South Africa, Kevin holds a BA (Hons) from Rhodes University and an HDE. He is passionate about ensuring that policies and strategies make a tangible difference in the lives of those whose voices are either seldom heard, listened to, or discounted.
Areas of Expertise:
• Sexual and reproductive health
• HIV
• Education
• Human rights
• Policy and advocacy
• Service access and delivery
• Locally led development
• Workshop and meeting facilitation