Dr Benjamin Tsofa
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Dr Ben Tsofa examines the effects of political decentralisation in Kenya, on sub-national level health sector governance and accountability.
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Benjamin Tsofa
Director, KEMRI Centre
I am a health systems and policy researcher at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. I initially trained and worked as a clinical dentist, before moving into public primary health management and later health policy systems research.
My research interests are in health systems governance, health financing and health policy analysis - with a special interest in health sector resource allocation, priority setting, planning and budgeting. My DrPH, from LSHTM focused on the effects of political decentralization in Kenya on county level health sector planning and budgeting.
Currently I hold a position as a Principal Research Officer with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and I co-lead the health systems governance research group at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, as well as serving as the Centre Director of the KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, in Kilifi. In addition, I also sit in several Technical Advisory Committees at the National Ministry of Health in Kenya, where I provides technical assistance in several health systems strengthening initiatives and general health policy formulation and implementation at both the county and national level
Recent publications
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Power and positionality in the practice of health system responsiveness at sub-national level: insights from the Kenyan coast.
Kagwanja N. et al, (2024), International journal for equity in health, 23
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Using evidence from civil society in national and subnational health policy processes: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Gopinathan U. et al, (2024), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024
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A mixed methods study examining the impact of primary health care financing transitions on facility functioning and service delivery in Kenya: a study protocol.
Muthuri RNDK. et al, (2024), Wellcome open research, 9
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A mixed methods study examining the impact of primary health care financing transitions on facility functioning and service delivery in Kenya: a study protocol
Muthuri RNDK. et al, (2024)
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Examining the development and utilisation of Community-Based Health Information Systems (CBHIS) in Africa: A Scoping Review
Kuvuna B. et al, (2024)