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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’.

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 […]