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…
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…
Thanzi la Onse International Conference in Malawi
29 - 31 January, 2019
Lilongwe, 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…
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),…
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…
ODI Health Fellows – ‘Mid-Term Conference’ 2018
8 October, 2018
York, UK
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…
