Thanzi la Onse has cultivated an approach to research-to-policy engagement in health and health economics by establishing equitable partnerships between national universities and ministries of health in Malawi, Uganda and throughout the East Central and Southern African region and international research partners such as York, Imperial, UCL and ODI. As TLO looks to its next… Read More »
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.,… Read More »
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,… Read More »
10 things we learned from planning an entirely virtual workshop during COVID-19
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… Read More »
The Extraordinary HEPU Think Tank Meeting
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,… Read More »
CHE and ICL staff visit to Malawi
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… Read More »
