Olivier Onvlee is an external PhD researcher in the International Development Studies group at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, alongside his work as advisor Health Systems Strengthening at KIT Institute.

His research focusses on health workforce governance and planning in fragile and conflict affected settings.

His experience includes conducting a health workforce mapping and political economy analysis on workforce data governance in Northwest Syria; supporting workforce strategy development processes in Greece and Congo Brazzaville; designing and implementing an evidence based workforce planning intervention in Niger; implementation research on the political economy of scaling-up health interventions in Uganda, Malawi and Ghana; and evaluation of local governance programmes in Uganda and Somaliland.

Olivier is a member KIT’s Centre for Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings, as well as coordinator for the ‘Analysing Disrupted Health Systems’ course.

Olivier holds a MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.