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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. 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 Alan Msosa to Malawi where […]

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 […]

November 1, 2018

ODI Health Fellows – ‘Mid-Term Conference’ 2018

Current Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Health Fellows visited the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) in October to participate in a two-day ‘Mid-Term Conference’ supported by the Thanzi la Onse programme. The Fellows – consisting of the 2017 and 2018 cohorts – are all currently working as economists for Ministries of Health across Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific […]

October 19, 2018

Interdisciplinary Data Management Meeting

Researchers from across all themes within Thanzi la Onse were brought together recently to discuss data availability and data requirements within the respective work streams. Overlapping data needs and data sharing approaches were discussed. Researchers from Thanzi la Onse (TLO), whose work focusses on quantitative data methods, participated in a meeting at Imperial College London on the 24-25th of September, […]

August 9, 2018

Annual ODI Health Fellows’ Training Day

In July, the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) welcomed the latest Health Fellows accepted onto the Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI) Fellowship Scheme for a one day training event in Health Economics – the third ODI Health Fellows’ Day hosted by CHE. Also in attendance were colleagues from Imperial College London, including Thanzi la Onse (TLO) Theme 1 researchers, Mikaela Smit, Tara […]

June 21, 2018

Thanzi la Onse Initiation Event

The Thanzi la Onse (Health of All) research programme was formally launched during a three-day collaborative Initiation Event in Lilongwe, Malawi on 27 – 30 November 2017. Attended by representatives from the Malawian Ministry of Health and Agriculture, national and regional health bodies including the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA), regional donors such as the World Bank […]