Professor Edwine Barasa
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KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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Edwine Barasa
Professor of Health Economics
- KWTRP Interim Executive Director
Edwine is the Interim Executive Director of the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme and also heads the Programme’s Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). Edwine is a Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oxford. He has a PhD in health economics (University of Cape Town), a masters degree in health economics (University of Cape Town), and a bachelors degree in Pharmacy (University of Nairobi).
Edwine’s research interests include health financing; equity and efficiency analysis in healthcare; economic evaluation of healthcare interventions; measuring health systems' performance; and health system governance.
Edwine has several years of experience of practice, advisory, and conducting health economics and financing research in Kenya and in the broader Sub-Saharan African region. He provides health financing advisory to the Kenya Ministry of Health with his latest roles including appointments by the Minister of Health to the taskforce for the reform of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and Kenya Health Benefits Advisory Panel. He also provides health financing technical advisory support to several international development organizations, including the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), focusing on the broader Sub-Saharan African region including Kenya, Ghana, Somalia, Malawi, Madagascar, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, and Egypt. His latest regional appointments include as a member of the advisory board of the Africa CDC’s Health Economic Unit, and a member of the Africa Universal Health Coverage Commission hosted by the Africa Health Agenda International Conference.
Recent publications
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Evaluating the implementation of the Primary Health Integrated Care Project for Chronic Conditions: a cohort study from Kenya.
Mugo R. et al, (2024), BMJ public health, 2
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Why Was the Policy Idea on the Health Benefits Package Advisory Panel Gazetted in Kenya? A Retrospective Policy Analysis.
Mbau R. et al, (2024), International journal of health policy and management, 13
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Factors Influencing the Institutionalization of Health Technology Assessment: A Scoping Literature Review.
Mbau R. et al, (2023), Health systems and reform, 9
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Assessing the choice of National Health Insurance Fund contracted outpatient facilities in Kenya: A qualitative study.
Kazungu J. et al, (2023), The International journal of health planning and management, 38, 1555 - 1568
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Exploring COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake in Nairobi's urban informal settlements: an unsupervised machine learning analysis of a longitudinal prospective cohort study from 2021 to 2022.
Rajshekhar N. et al, (2023), BMJ open, 13