Kath Devlin – Thanzi Programme

May 28, 2026

HEDL student sat at a laptop during a seminar.

Empowering Africa’s Health Leaders

The Thanzi Programme has launched its dedicated Studentship Programme webpage, as part of our mission to build sustainable health economics capacity across Africa. Since its inception, the Thanzi Studentship Programme has addressed the shortage of local health economics expertise within African national health systems. While governments face increasingly complex decisions regarding healthcare resource allocation, postgraduate training opportunities on the continent […]

March 24, 2026

New Thanzi Research: Insights from financial economics to value healthcare investments

How can concepts from financial economics strengthen conventional health economic methods for evaluating programs that reduce system-level risk? Conventional health economic evaluations (HEE) are powerful, but are we systematically underestimating the value of our most critical public health programs – like disease elimination and eradication? Our latest paper – ‘Insights from financial economics to value healthcare investments that reduce system-level […]

March 3, 2026

Prioritising NTD Elimination: New Economic Frameworks & Modelling Evidence from the Thanzi Labwino Showcase

In our second Thanzi Labwino (Better Health) online showcase, hosted in partnership with ECSA Health Community, the project team shared insights from forthcoming research publications on the theme ‘Economic Evaluation of Disease Elimination and Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases’. The Thanzi Labwino (Better Health) project, funded by the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), aimed to generate new tools and evidence […]

February 24, 2026

Strengthening Resilience: Thanzi Labwino Showcases New Evidence for Health System Sustainability in Africa

The Thanzi Labwino (Better Health) project team, in partnership with ECSA Health Community, recently hosted the first of two online showcase events, on the theme ‘Building Sustainable Health Systems: Community Health and Health System Resilience’. Since December 2022, with support from the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), the team has worked to generate new tools and evidence to address […]

December 18, 2025

Group photo of attendees of the HE-COP meeting. Front attendees seated, with two rows of attendees stood behind.

Health Economics Community of Practice: Prioritising resources in a changing funding landscape | 1-3 December 2025

Introduction and context The 2025 meeting of the Health Economics Community of Practice (HE-COP) was convened in Rwanda to address the critical and shifting landscape of health financing across Africa and begin discussions regarding the future and sustainability of the HE-COP. Originally established by the East, Central & Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) in partnership with the University of York […]

October 30, 2025

New Thanzi Research: Advancing Health System Modelling for Policy in Malawi

Malawi faces critical decisions on how to allocate limited health system resources. The Thanzi La Onse (TLO) model is the first whole-population, multi-disease health system model for Malawi. By integrating economic production theory, it helps policymakers understand how shortages of health workers, supplies, and facilities impact health – and how targeted investments can deliver greater health gains. Here, we provide […]

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 […]