Dear Colleagues, You are warmly invited to register and participate in this exciting webinar themed, “Guaranteeing equitable access to vaccines in Africa: is Africa ready for vaccine production?”. This webinar is under the “Equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccines in Africa (ECOVA)” project – a collaborative project between the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and funded by the International Development and Research Center (IDRC). ·         Date: Wednesday, … Read More

Dear Colleagues, This call for proposals is a joint initiative between TDR, the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO), who have a mutual interest in strengthening the capacity for health research in developing countries. The call reflects a commitment to increasing the level of implementation research to deliver high quality and cost-efficient health care solutions to people in resource poor settings. To participate, … Read More

The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) holds its international scientific conference every two years.  The Scientific Committee plays an important role in the success of our conferences by ensuring the scientific rigour of the presentations made at the conferences.  As we start planning for our next conference, there is a great need to revamp our scientific committee and update our scientific committee members’ details.  To this end, we are calling upon our members interested in serving on our … Read More

Dear African Health Economists, We are excited that the next International Health Economics Association (IHEA) congress is happening in Cape Town, themed “Diversity in Health Economics.”  This will be the first IHEA congress held in Africa, and AfHEA is proud to be associated with the event. IHEA’s call for abstracts is now open, and researchers and students are encouraged to submit their abstracts (https://healtheconomics.confex.com/healtheconomics/2023/cfp.cgi) by 29 November 2022. In preparation for the IHEA congress, AfHEA is planning a series of … Read More

The Executive Director, Prof. John Ataguba together with a team from AfHEA are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia addressing a variety of  African health sector stakeholders at the “African Health Economics and Financing Capacity Forum” hosted by the Africa CDC in partnership with AfHEA, SPARC Africa and Amref Health Africa from the 13th till the 15th of September, 2022. The Forum aims to promote the development of the health economics and health financing sector in Africa and brings together key stakeholders … Read More

It’s a primed start for Africa’s drive towards COVID-19 vaccine production and equitable access with the project inception workshop held from 20-22 July 2022 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) and partners, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) under the three (3) – year, collaborative ECOVA project. The USD 1 million project dubbed, “Equitable access to COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa, (ECOVA)”, … Read More

Theme: Communicating Research to Policy Makers: Reflections from practitioners Date and time: August 18, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm GMT Target Audience: All AfHEA members, interested students, researchers, and practitioners Aim: To provide researchers with knowledge of how to translate their research into clear and concise information, packaged in an easy-to-understand language that policy makers can use as evidence in their policy making process. Register here: https://forms.gle/capHtqxjyFhe1Wpw9

You are warmly invited to participate in a webinar on universal access to sexual and reproductive health services chaired by Dr Ian Askew of WHO AFRO. Prof. John Ataguba of AfHEA will be a speaker together with Dr Sabeen Afzal from Pakistan, Deepa and Venkatachalam from India, in addition to a presentation from Dr Georges Danhoundo of WHO HQ. The webinar is organized by WHO’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), through the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) and … Read More