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

28 February - 2 March 2023

York, UK

April 14, 2023 by Alex Rollinger

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… Read More »

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

November 3, 2022 by Steph Richards

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… Read More »

Recent TLO events and activities in East Africa

July 4, 2022 by Steph Richards

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… Read More »

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

January 13, 2022 by Steph Richards

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… Read More »

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

December 14, 2021 by Steph Richards

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,… Read More »

Research-to-policy partnerships: future plans for extending TLO’s approach in the ECSA and West Africa regions

March 29, 2021 by Alex Rollinger

Thanzi la Onse has cultivated an approach to research-to-policy engagement in health and health economics by establishing equitable partnerships between national universities and ministries of health in Malawi, Uganda and throughout the East Central and Southern African region and international research partners such as York, Imperial, UCL and ODI. As TLO looks to its next… Read More »