Dr. Daniel Mwai holds a PhD in Health and Environmental Economics under the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) collaborative PhD program and a Health Finance Specialist. He is a recognized thought leader in Health Financing; Health policy; health economic evaluation (Costing, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity analysis); economic research; resource mobilization for health sector; and Program Management in Africa with over 15 years experience. He has advised the Kenya ministry of health-on-health financing for the last 6 years overseeing mobilization of over US$600 million for Health sector at the National and County government. He has been a lead expert on domestic resource mobilization initiative in line with the Universal health coverage agenda at the national and county level in Kenya. Under this initiative he has seen the government of Kenya reintroduce a budget line item for strategic commodities and allocate over KSh 7 billion in addition to mobilizing over US$ 6million for HIV programming in the county budgets. These efforts are aimed at achieving sustainability in health care financing and a key step towards achievement of Universal health coverage. Daniel has steered the development and costing of numerous national and county strategic plans. 

In addition, Dr Mwai is a capable professional in the field policy formulation, with great expertise in design and application of quantitative, qualitative methods in the health sector. His work has contributed to improvement in health care outcomes and expanded high quality pro-poor health services across all levels of the health system. He has played critical role in advocating and design of minimum essential package for health and reforms in the NHIF. He is currently a member of the: National Technical Working Group (TWG) on health care financing and Universal Health Coverage (UHC); The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA); Commissioner -The National Non communicable disease and injuries Poverty Commission on sustainable and efficient financing of health and NCDs; and a lecturer of health finance and management at the Strathmore School of Global Health and University of Nairobi.

Dr. Daniel Mwai is also the Advisor Health and Standards, Presidential Economics Transformation Secretariat (PETs). Dr. Mwai is a Research Fellow of the environmental for development (EfD) University of Gothenburg, Sweden, he has attracted several awards and grants having competitively won: a Wellcome Trust grant Award; a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award; SIDA Environmental for development Award and DFID capacity building. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, has published internationally and has authored many scientific publications, numerous government reports and policy briefs (available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Mwai/contributions).