June 2, 2026
The Thanzi Programme is proud to announce a major new research grant for Thanzi Konse (Health Everywhere), awarded by the philanthropic organisation The Life You Can Save. This one-year project marks the exciting expansion of our work into Namibia and Zambia. Supporting Universal Health Coverage in Namibia A primary focus of the project is supporting Namibia’s commitment to Universal Health […]
May 28, 2026
The Thanzi Programme has launched its dedicated Studentship Programme webpage, as part of our mission to build sustainable health economics capacity across Africa. Since its inception, the Thanzi Studentship Programme has addressed the shortage of local health economics expertise within African national health systems. While governments face increasingly complex decisions regarding healthcare resource allocation, postgraduate training opportunities on the continent […]
March 24, 2026
How can concepts from financial economics strengthen conventional health economic methods for evaluating programs that reduce system-level risk? Conventional health economic evaluations (HEE) are powerful, but are we systematically underestimating the value of our most critical public health programs – like disease elimination and eradication? Our latest paper – ‘Insights from financial economics to value healthcare investments that reduce system-level […]
March 3, 2026
In our second Thanzi Labwino (Better Health) online showcase, hosted in partnership with ECSA Health Community, the project team shared insights from forthcoming research publications on the theme ‘Economic Evaluation of Disease Elimination and Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases’. The Thanzi Labwino (Better Health) project, funded by the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), aimed to generate new tools and evidence […]
February 24, 2026
The Thanzi Labwino (Better Health) project team, in partnership with ECSA Health Community, recently hosted the first of two online showcase events, on the theme ‘Building Sustainable Health Systems: Community Health and Health System Resilience’. Since December 2022, with support from the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), the team has worked to generate new tools and evidence to address […]
December 18, 2025
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 […]