Kath Devlin

July 31, 2025

Webinar: Community Health Workers – 29 July 2025

Our third event in the ECSA Health Community Health Economics Community of Practice webinar series, supported by WHO-AFRO and the Thanzi Programme, took place on 29 July 2025. The objective of this webinar, on Community Health Workers, was to understand approaches to shaping and integrating community health systems into formal healthcare delivery in Africa, and explore methods and emerging evidence […]
July 23, 2025

Navigating a shifting landscape: sustainability of HIV programmes in Africa | July 2025

In recent months we have witnessed a dramatic and rapid change to the funding landscape for HIV treatment and prevention across Africa. The withdrawal of USAID and PEPFAR funding has been publicised extensively and this, coupled with anticipated reductions in US contributions to the latest Global Fund renewal, raises serious questions about the sustainability of HIV programmes.  Against the backdrop […]
July 2, 2025

Webinar: Sustainability of HIV Programmes – 26 June 2025

The second event in the ECSA Health Community Health Economics Community of Practice webinar series, supported by WHO-AFRO and the Thanzi Programme, took place on 26 June 2025. This webinar on Sustainability of HIV Programmes, in collaboration with the HIV Modelling Consortium, addressed the pressing challenges faced by HIV programs across Africa. With the withdrawal of USAID/PEPFAR funding and the […]
May 13, 2025

Webinar: Health Workforce Modelling – 29 April 2025

We are pleased to share a recording of the first event in the ECSA Health Community Health Economics Community of Practice webinar series, supported by WHO-AFRO and the Thanzi Programme. On the topic of Health workforce modelling, this webinar was an opportunity to share experiences on how health workforce modelling can inform human resources for health development at the country level. […]
April 30, 2025

Thanzi Programme MSc Studentships 2025-2028: Applications Now Open 

The Thanzi Programme is excited to announce the opening of applications for two new funded MSc Studentships to support postgraduate training in health economics. The Thanzi Studentship Programme aims to improve capability among academic, policy and community stakeholders to generate, interpret and use health economic evidence to inform their disease elimination and resource allocation decisions.  The programme was an outcome […]
April 1, 2025

A new Thanzi logo & redesigned website: what’s changed, and why?

We are thrilled to launch our redesigned website, featuring our new logo and a refreshed look and feel. This exciting change reflects our transition from the foundational Thanzi la Onse project to the Thanzi Programme – an international collective of multiple projects, with collaborators and partners across East, Central, Southern and West Africa, UK, Europe, United Arab Emirates, and USA.
October 26, 2023

Thanzi Programme launches new distance learning studentships to strengthen access to postgraduate training in health economics

In September 2023, the Thanzi Programme launched the Thanzi Programme Health Economics Distance Learning MSc Studentships: a new funded scheme designed to support 12 talented African students in completing a three-year MSc distance learning programme specialising in economics and related disciplines. 
November 3, 2022

Thanzi la Onse research informs African Union-led health financing dialogues in five ECSA countries

Thanzi researchers at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE, University of York) and the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) have been commissioned by The Global Fund to produce a comprehensive report which helps to inform and improve healthcare resource allocation in the region. Country-specific findings from this report will be presented during a series of National Dialogues […]
July 4, 2022

Recent TLO events and activities in East Africa

Thanzi la Onse researchers attended a number of events and meetings in March 2022, to celebrate the achievements of the programme over the past 4 years and engage in discussions with national Universities and Ministries of Health in East Africa, to scope out emerging plans to establish further initiatives which can support equitable partnerships and research-to-policy engagement during ‘phase 2’.