Rogers Ayiko is a senior health specialist at the World Bank. He has worked for almost 17 years on policy and systems strengthening for reproductive, maternal, and child health; infectious and noncommunicable diseases; and public health emergencies, including publishing on these areas in peer-reviewed journals. He served previously as a principal health systems and policy officer in the East African health community and as a senior program officer for family and reproductive health in the East Central and Southern Africa health communities. Prior to that, he worked as a national monitoring and evaluation officer, a technical advisor for district health services, and a clinician in a General Hospital. He has trained as a medical physician and has pursued postgraduate training in tropical medicine, international health, business administration, and health and pharmaco-economics. He holds a masters of management in business administration from the Uganda Management Institute; a joint MSc in international health from University College London, Karolinska Institutet, and Charite Universitatsmedizin, Berlin; and a bachelor of medicine and surgery from the Mbarara University of Science and Technology.