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Introduction and context The 2025 meeting of the Health Economics Community of Practice (HE-COP) was convened in Rwanda to address the critical and shifting landscape of health financing across Africa and begin discussions regarding the future and sustainability of the HE-COP. Originally established by the East, Central & Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) in partnership with the University of York […]

Our third event in the ECSA Health Community Health Economics Community of Practice webinar series, supported by WHO-AFRO and the Thanzi Programme, took place on 29 July 2025. The objective of this webinar, on Community Health Workers, was to understand approaches to shaping and integrating community health systems into formal healthcare delivery in Africa, and explore methods and emerging evidence […]

The second event in the ECSA Health Community Health Economics Community of Practice webinar series, supported by WHO-AFRO and the Thanzi Programme, took place on 26 June 2025. This webinar on Sustainability of HIV Programmes, in collaboration with the HIV Modelling Consortium, addressed the pressing challenges faced by HIV programs across Africa. With the withdrawal of USAID/PEPFAR funding and the […]

We are pleased to share a recording of the first event in the ECSA Health Community Health Economics Community of Practice webinar series, supported by WHO-AFRO and the Thanzi Programme. On the topic of Health workforce modelling, this webinar was an opportunity to share experiences on how health workforce modelling can inform human resources for health development at the country level. […]

The Thanzi Programme is excited to announce the opening of applications for two new funded MSc Studentships to support postgraduate training in health economics. The Thanzi Studentship Programme aims to improve capability among academic, policy and community stakeholders to generate, interpret and use health economic evidence to inform their disease elimination and resource allocation decisions.  The programme was an outcome […]

We are thrilled to launch our redesigned website, featuring our new logo and a refreshed look and feel. This exciting change reflects our transition from the foundational Thanzi la Onse project to the Thanzi Programme – an international collective of multiple projects, with collaborators and partners across East, Central, Southern and West Africa, UK, Europe, United Arab Emirates, and USA.

In September 2023, the Thanzi Programme launched the Thanzi Programme Health Economics Distance Learning MSc Studentships: a new funded scheme designed to support 12 talented African students in completing a three-year MSc distance learning programme specialising in economics and related disciplines. 

Thanzi researchers at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE, University of York) and the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) have been commissioned by The Global Fund to produce a comprehensive report which helps to inform and improve healthcare resource allocation in the region. Country-specific findings from this report will be presented during a series of National Dialogues […]

For many low- and middle-income countries, health benefits packages (HBPs) have become a key component for providing universal health coverage from a limited resource envelope. Simply put, HBPs define which healthcare interventions will be provided within a country’s health system. However, due to a range of uncertainties which exist within current evidence bases that inform the costs and benefits of […]