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October 24, 2019

SPEED Symposium 2019: Partnerships, Policy and Systems Development for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

In August, Thanzi la Onse researchers attended the SPEED Symposium on Partnerships, Policy, and System Developments for Universal Health Coverage, organised by the Ministry of Health Uganda and the SPEED Project. Under the theme ‘Partnerships for Health Improvements across Governments, and Societies at Local, National and Global Levels’, the event aimed to “bring experiences, reflections and evidence (both local, national […]

August 21, 2019

Thanzi la Onse supports the establishment of a Health Economics, Policy and Ethics (HEPE) Think Tank and Policy Lab in Malawi

There are many research organisations working in Malawi and in other African countries. An uncoordinated, unharmonised and nonaligned policy engagement could be very costly in terms of time and resources for policy-makers. Policy-makers need to spend more of their time in policy implementation rather than meeting, listening and entertaining competing multiple research, organisations and research lobby groups. The Malawi Ministry […]

August 7, 2019

ODI Health Fellows’ Training Day 2019

On 31st July 2019, Thanzi la Onse and CHE welcomed the latest cohort of Health Fellows accepted onto the Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI) Fellowship Scheme to our ‘ODI Health Fellows Training Day: an introduction to health economics’ short course. The prestigious ODI Fellowship Scheme provides an opportunity to work as economists for Ministries of Health in low- and middle-income countries. […]

July 30, 2019

Strengthening links between Thanzi partners in UK and Malawi

In June 2019, Thanzi partners in Malawi hosted a visit by Thanzi researchers Dr Tara Mangal (Imperial College London) and Dr Wiktoria Tafesse (University of York). This followed a successful Thanzi la Onse workshop in Lilongwe in January, where the need for stronger links between UK and Malawian researchers / policy-makers was noted. Tara and Wiktoria attended meetings with researchers, […]

May 13, 2019

TLO Researchers attend the AfHEA and CSAE 2019 Conferences

In March 2019, TLO researchers Kenneth R Katumba, Martin Chalkley and Wiktoria Tafesse attended and presented their work at various conferences. The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) Conference 2019: Securing Primary Health Care for all: The foundation for making progress on Universal Health Coverage for al in Africa. On the 11 – 14th of March 2019, Kenneth R […]

March 12, 2019

Understanding the political context of health policy in Malawi: a field research trip

This article was originally published on the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre‘s website and can be found here. In December 2018 and January 2019 the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) sent Alan Msosa to Malawi where he held interviews and meetings aimed at understanding the political context of health policy. Part I In December 2018 and January 2019 the IGDC sent […]

March 6, 2019

Thanzi la Onse International Conference in Malawi

It was a busy start of the year for the Thanzi la Onse (TLO) Programme! In January 2019, we held the TLO International Conference, the first event taking place in Malawi since the Inception event in November 2017. The three-day event reunited key TLO collaborators across the UK and East Africa, as well as policy-makers and other researchers. This provided […]

December 12, 2018

ECSA and CHE sign Memorandum of Understanding at the 67th ECSA Health Ministers Conference

In early November 2018, Thanzi la One (TLO) Programme Director Paul Revill and TLO Malawi-based researcher Takondwa Mwase travelled to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe to attend the East, Central and South Africa Health-Community (ECSA-HC) 67th Health Ministers Conference. On this occasion, the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) and ECSA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which formalises the two institutions’ […]

December 7, 2018

It’s all about the data

In many cases, the research question, design and methodology follow the availability of data. A prominent example is the emergence of genetic information after the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, which ultimately enabled the establishment of precision medicine as a health science discipline. Health economics analysis also relies upon data availability. In the setting of global health […]