March 6, 2019
It was a busy start of the year for the Thanzi la Onse (TLO) Programme! In January 2019, we held the TLO International Conference, the first event taking place in Malawi since the Inception event in November 2017. The three-day event reunited key TLO collaborators across the UK and East Africa, as well as policy-makers and other researchers. This provided […]
December 12, 2018
In early November 2018, Thanzi la One (TLO) Programme Director Paul Revill and TLO Malawi-based researcher Takondwa Mwase travelled to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe to attend the East, Central and South Africa Health-Community (ECSA-HC) 67th Health Ministers Conference. On this occasion, the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) and ECSA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which formalises the two institutions’ […]
December 7, 2018
In many cases, the research question, design and methodology follow the availability of data. A prominent example is the emergence of genetic information after the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, which ultimately enabled the establishment of precision medicine as a health science discipline. Health economics analysis also relies upon data availability. In the setting of global health […]
November 1, 2018
Current Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Health Fellows visited the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) in October to participate in a two-day ‘Mid-Term Conference’ supported by the Thanzi la Onse programme. The Fellows – consisting of the 2017 and 2018 cohorts – are all currently working as economists for Ministries of Health across Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific […]
October 19, 2018
Researchers from across all themes within Thanzi la Onse were brought together recently to discuss data availability and data requirements within the respective work streams. Overlapping data needs and data sharing approaches were discussed. Researchers from Thanzi la Onse (TLO), whose work focusses on quantitative data methods, participated in a meeting at Imperial College London on the 24-25th of September, […]
August 9, 2018
In July, the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) welcomed the latest Health Fellows accepted onto the Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI) Fellowship Scheme for a one day training event in Health Economics – the third ODI Health Fellows’ Day hosted by CHE. Also in attendance were colleagues from Imperial College London, including Thanzi la Onse (TLO) Theme 1 researchers, Mikaela Smit, Tara […]