AFIDEP’s Dr. Rose Oronje on African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) 2022 Conference Panel
Event Date: 7 - 11 Mar 2022
Event Location: Virtual

Theme and sub-themes:

The broad theme of the conference is: Towards Resilient Health Systems in Africa: The Role of Health Economics and Policy Research.

The sub-themes of the conference are:

  1. Decolonizing Health Economics and policy research and the drive for greater equity and inclusion.
  2. Vaccine economics: equity, distribution, financing, trade and the lessons learnt during the covid-19 pandemic.
  3. What adjustments are required to make health and health financing systems in Africa more resilient to pandemics?
  4. Cost-effectiveness of addressing social/underlying determinants of poor health vs. funding medical interventions.
  5. Building back better health systems: the role of innovation, multi-sectoral approaches and global financial architecture in building resilient health systems in Africa.
  6. UHC, politics, policy processes, and reforms during the covid-19 pandemic.
  7. The role and use of data and evidence for policy decisions in a pandemic (the case of covid-19).
  8. Looking to the future: what plans are in place to mitigate the impact of covid-19 post the pandemic?

The 6th biennial African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) Scientific Conference panel discussion aims to explore the various working methods used to help bridge the gap between research, policy, and practice in development efforts in Africa. This is especially pertinent given the growing need for health research to be suitably channelled into policy and for practice to be meaningfully transformed.

The panel will highlight the role of policy-makers in the process of evidence production. It will showcase how the African Health Observatory Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP) functions to produce knowledge that is responsive to policy-maker needs and priorities. AHOP produces a suite of products including Country Health System & Services Profiles (CHSSPs), policy briefs, comparative and thematic studies, and policy dialogues that benefit from policy-maker input.

Find out how to register here: https://afhea.org/en/component/tags/tag/afhea-2022

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