July 2, 2025

Webinar: Sustainability of HIV Programmes – 26 June 2025

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 […]
May 13, 2025

Webinar: Health Workforce Modelling – 29 April 2025

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. […]
April 30, 2025

Thanzi Programme MSc Studentships 2025-2028: Applications Now Open 

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 […]
April 1, 2025

A new Thanzi logo & redesigned website: what’s changed, and why?

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.
October 26, 2023

Thanzi Programme launches new distance learning studentships to strengthen access to postgraduate training in health economics

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. 
November 3, 2022

Thanzi la Onse research informs African Union-led health financing dialogues in five ECSA countries

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 […]
January 13, 2022

TLO launches a new framework and tool (VOI-HBP tool) to map uncertainty around the population Net Health Effects of healthcare interventions with view to concomitantly prioritise healthcare research and support Health Benefits Package Design

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 […]
December 14, 2021

Developing the EQ-5D-5L Value Set for Uganda Using the ‘Lite’ Protocol

This EQ-5D-5L valuation study is the first of its kind to be delivered in and for Uganda, and the first to use a ‘lite’ protocol: which aims to reduce the resource demands involved in conducting field work and generating data – particularly for resource-constrained settings. Following the publication of the EQ-5D-5L value set for Uganda, researchers discuss how the study […]
June 8, 2020

Launch of the Global Health Economics Community of Practice Hub

In recent months, Thanzi la Onse has been working closely in collaboration with the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) to develop an open access community of practice to support health economics research capability and its use within policy in low- and middle-income settings. In May 2020, we were delighted to officially launch the Global Health Economics Hub […]