The East Central and Southern Africa Health Community in collaboration with Thanzi la Onse held its second Health Economics Community of Practice Meeting earlier this year. Hosted by the Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness, the two-day workshop brought together member states from Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Eswatini, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mauritius to continue… Read More »

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

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)… Read More »