AfHEA 4th Scientific Conference Presentations
Dear Participants
Thank you for your registration. We are delighted to receiving you soon in Rabat.
Unfortunately, we are afraid to have to announce that due to the lower number of people who have sent us their flight details, we can no longer manage the shuttle from Casa Airport to Rabat. We are sorry to have to cancel bus transportation from Casa to Rabat.
Conference 2016 draft agenda
From cost-effectiveness to fairness: Guidance and tools on the path to Universal Health Coverage
Health Technology Assessment for Universal Health Coverage Package Design
Health Technology Assessment for Universal Health Coverage Package Design Training Outline
Why and how to approach Universal Health Coverage from a public finance perspective in Africa?
The African Health Economics & Policy Association (AfHEA) was set up in March 2009 as a membership-based non-profit association of Africans and non-Africans including students working on Africa-related issues in the fields of health economics, financing and policy. AfHEA aspires to help improve health outcomes in Africa by promoting high quality and standards in the generation of policy-relevant evidence and promoting the use of appropriate health economics, policy and financing tools within the health sector in Africa. Although there are signs that health sector policy making in Africa appears to be increasingly benefiting from the insights that health economics and health policy evidence and analyses are able to offer (in part due to the greater awareness of the benefits of such evidence and analyses promoted by several stakeholders including AfHEA), it is also clear that both country capacities in these fields and utilization of such tools vary widely across Africa and both are still often woefully inadequate or even absent.
AfHEA’s inaugural conference was held in 2009 in Accra, Ghana. Since then we have successfully held 2 more conferences: Saly, Senegal (2011) and Nairobi, Kenya (2014). The 4th conference will be held in Rabat, Morocco in September 2016.
Flights
Delegates are responsible for booking their own flights to and from Rabat. In most cases, booking airline tickets via the internet is a cost-effective option.
The Organizing Committee invites you to showcase your organization/company to the delegates attending the AfHEA conference 2016. This is a marketing opportunity for your organization. We anticipate that +- 300 delegates from academic, research and policy institutions around the continent will be attending this conference.
AfHEA has applied for funding to support bursary applications. A minimum amount of bursaries will be awarded.
What is a pre-conference workshop?
Pre-conference workshops are an important component of AfHEA conferences. Colleagues will be invited to submit expressions of interest to host pre-conference workshops at the AfHEA 2016 Conference. Pre-conference workshops will be held on the day before formal conference proceedings start, that is, on 26 September 2016.
The conference themes relate to the broad theme of how the international community’s post MDG agenda of SDGs and the so-called grand convergence might impact health in Africa. The following themes are meant to serve as a guide for the technical organization of the conference and not as a restriction on research areas and innovation by participants.
The current landscape in international development is dominated by discussions around the new Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) and the ‘Grand Convergence’ [i] advocated by the Lancet’s Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) that are set to replace the MDGs. African policy makers have made inputs into these international discussions and certainly the broad health-related objectives sought (e.g. universal health coverage, accelerated reductions in deaths from maternal, childhood and infectious disease conditions) are mostly in line with the health goals and priorities of African countries.
Full Ordinary Membership Renewable yearly. (AfHEA's fiscal year is JULY-JUNE)
Note: Payment includes one-time admin fee ($20) and a year's membership fee ($80). An additional $6 is charged for online payment processing. For Renewals, Click Here
Full time students and U18s Renewable yearly.(AfHEA's fiscal year is JULY-JUNE)
Note: Payment includes one-time admin fee ($20) and a year's membership fee ($50). An additional $6 is charged for online payment processing. For Renewals, Click Here
Associate membership is open to all who share AfHEA’s objectives or wish to help advance them but cannot become full ordinary members. Renewable yearly. (AfHEA's fiscal year is JULY-JUNE)
Note: Payment includes one-time admin fee ($20) and a year's membership fee ($80). An additional $6 is charged for online payment processing. For Renewals, Click Here
Institutional Membership is open to institutions working in the health sector of Africa or involved in training students in the relevant fields. Renewable yearly.(AfHEA's fiscal year is JULY-JUNE)