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January 13, 2022

TLO launches a new framework and tool (VOI-HBP tool) to map uncertainty around the population Net Health Effects of healthcare interventions with view to concomitantly prioritise healthcare research and support Health Benefits Package Design

For many low- and middle-income countries, health benefits packages (HBPs) have become a key component for providing universal health coverage from a limited resource envelope. Simply put, HBPs define which healthcare interventions will be provided within a country’s health system. However, due to a range of uncertainties which exist within current evidence bases that inform the costs and benefits of […]

December 14, 2021

Developing the EQ-5D-5L Value Set for Uganda Using the ‘Lite’ Protocol

This EQ-5D-5L valuation study is the first of its kind to be delivered in and for Uganda, and the first to use a ‘lite’ protocol: which aims to reduce the resource demands involved in conducting field work and generating data – particularly for resource-constrained settings. Following the publication of the EQ-5D-5L value set for Uganda, researchers discuss how the study […]

September 3, 2020

Squaring the cube: towards an operational model of optimal universal health coverage

A paper from Thanzi researchers and collaborators Jessica Ochalek, Gerald Manthalu and Pete Smith, Squaring the cube: towards an operational model of optimal universal health coverage, helps to inform key policy questions in reaching Universal Health Coverage. Their paper provides a method for trading-off the benefits and costs of expanding the breadth of coverage (i.e., how much of the population […]

September 2, 2020

A practical approach to identifying high priority areas for data collection

Significant resources are committed to improving the data informing healthcare decisions. Data on disease patterns, current health care and health outcomes, and how health could be improved using different interventions, are essential to informing decisions about how to allocate healthcare resources. Given the expanding opportunities to collect data via routine data collection, surveys, surveillance systems, and clinical trials, and the […]

August 6, 2020

10 things we learned from planning an entirely virtual workshop during COVID-19

As for many research programmes, institutions and teams around the world, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the move to online working has forced us all to think differently about how to bring people ‘together’ for meetings, training events and workshops in 2020. Each year, the Thanzi la Onse programme holds a face-to-face International Project Workshop, to reunite programme […]

August 6, 2020

Thanzi la Onse International Project Workshop 2020

The second annual Thanzi la Onse International Project Workshop took place in early July 2020. Originally planned to be held in the UK as a face-to-face event, the workshop was fully re-designed as a four-day virtual workshop in response to COVID-19 social distancing rules and travel restrictions, to enable all activities to be held online. Read more about our experience […]

June 29, 2020

The Extraordinary HEPU Think Tank Meeting

The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is also known, has brought along numerous challenges and devastating consequences. And as of the 20th March, 2020 was declared a state disaster in Malawi. With no specific vaccines or treatment, the best way to prevent and slow down the spread of the virus is frequent hand washing, not touching one’s face, social […]

June 8, 2020

Launch of the Global Health Economics Community of Practice Hub

In recent months, Thanzi la Onse has been working closely in collaboration with the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) to develop an open access community of practice to support health economics research capability and its use within policy in low- and middle-income settings. In May 2020, we were delighted to officially launch the Global Health Economics Hub […]

April 21, 2020

CHE and ICL staff visit to Malawi

In February 2020, Thanzi La Onse (TLO) research staff from the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) and Imperial College London (ICL) visited the Health Economics and Policy Unit (HEPU) at College of Medicine, Malawi, to discuss current projects and plan future research. The aims of the research visit were twofold – to bring together UK and Malawi researchers to discuss opportunities […]