April 14, 2023
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 in-person delegates Healthcare resource […]
November 3, 2022
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 […]
July 4, 2022
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 research-to-policy engagement during ‘phase 2’.
January 13, 2022
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
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 […]
March 29, 2021
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 phase from 2022, we explore […]