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Matthew Kuch

I am a management consultant working in global health, and a writer. For more than a decade I have worked on how health systems are financed and how they deliver, at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva, the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Uganda and Lesotho, and Deloitte Consulting before that.

I write about where money, politics and public health meet, and I use data and visual storytelling to make those arguments land. Most of what I publish starts as a question I could not answer from a spreadsheet.

  • Health Financing
  • Global Health
  • Political Economy
  • Data Visualization
  • Supply Chain Management

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Recent writing

Line chart of Uganda shillings per US dollar from 1993 to October 2026, rising from about 1,200 to 4,138, with the sharp falls of 2008-09, 2011, 2015 and 2026 shaded.

The Shilling Has Been Here Before
Political Economy
Health Financing
Data Visualization

The shilling is at a record low against the dollar. I went back through 33 years of Bank of Uganda data to see how this moment compares with the others.

Oct 17, 2026

Two blocks of dots for 2000 and 2025: Uganda's population doubled while the number of people with malaria stayed about the same.

Uganda Nearly Halved Its Malaria Rate. So Why Are Just as Many of Us Getting Sick?
Global Health
Health Financing
Data Visualization

An interactive data story: 26 years of malaria data for every district in Uganda, and who is paying to keep the gains.

Sep 29, 2026

Icicle chart of 8.3 million deaths in the WHO African Region in 2021, split into communicable, non-communicable and injury causes.

Africa’s Causes of Death, 2021
Global Health
Data Visualization

An explorable data story on the causes of death in Africa, from the WHO Global Health Estimates 2021.

Jul 18, 2026
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