Event – Thanzi Programme

April 14, 2023

The Thanzi Programme hosts a workshop to support the realisation of health financing commitments set-out in the African Union’s ALM Declaration

The third Thanzi Programme Workshop took place in February 2023, convening health researchers and policy makers in Africa and the UK to explore how health economics research can help African Heads of State meet the commitments set-out in the African Union’s ALM Declaration initiative, to improve health financing across the continent. Thanzi Programme Partners Workshop in-person delegates Healthcare resource […]

July 4, 2022

Recent TLO events and activities in East Africa

Thanzi la Onse researchers attended a number of events and meetings in March 2022, to celebrate the achievements of the programme over the past 4 years and engage in discussions with national Universities and Ministries of Health in East Africa, to scope out emerging plans to establish further initiatives which can support equitable partnerships and research-to-policy engagement during ‘phase 2’.

August 6, 2020

Thanzi la Onse International Project Workshop 2020

The second annual Thanzi la Onse International Project Workshop took place in early July 2020. Originally planned to be held in the UK as a face-to-face event, the workshop was fully re-designed as a four-day virtual workshop in response to COVID-19 social distancing rules and travel restrictions, to enable all activities to be held online. Read more about our experience […]

February 19, 2020

2nd Meeting of the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community – Health Economics Community of Practice

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 this process of knowledge exchange […]

August 7, 2019

ODI Health Fellows’ Training Day 2019

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 in low- and middle-income countries. […]

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 […]

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 […]