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… Read More »
CHE and ICL staff visit to Malawi
In February 2020, Thanzi La Onse (TLO) research staff from the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) and Imperial College London (ICL) visited the Health Economics and Policy Unit (HEPU) at College of Medicine, Malawi, to discuss current projects and plan future research. The aims of the research visit were twofold – to bring together UK and… Read More »
2nd Meeting of the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community – Health Economics Community of Practice
29 - 30 January 2020
Balaclava, Mauritius
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… Read More »
SPEED Symposium 2019: Partnerships, Policy and Systems Development for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
In August, Thanzi la Onse researchers attended the SPEED Symposium on Partnerships, Policy, and System Developments for Universal Health Coverage, organised by the Ministry of Health Uganda and the SPEED Project. Under the theme ‘Partnerships for Health Improvements across Governments, and Societies at Local, National and Global Levels’, the event aimed to “bring experiences, reflections… Read More »
Thanzi la Onse supports the establishment of a Health Economics, Policy and Ethics (HEPE) Think Tank and Policy Lab in Malawi
There are many research organisations working in Malawi and in other African countries. An uncoordinated, unharmonised and nonaligned policy engagement could be very costly in terms of time and resources for policy-makers. Policy-makers need to spend more of their time in policy implementation rather than meeting, listening and entertaining competing multiple research, organisations and research… Read More »
ODI Health Fellows’ Training Day 2019
July 31, 2019
York, UK
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… Read More »
