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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]