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Prof. Edwine Barasa

Nairobi Director, KWTRP

ebarasa@kemri-wellcome.org
  • Biography
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  • Top 5 Publications

Biography

Edwine is the director of the Nairobi Programme of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and also heads the Programme’s Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). Edwine is also a Visiting 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. At the regional level, his latest appointments include as a member of the advisory board of the Africa CDC’s Health Economic Unit, and as co-chair of the Africa Universal Health Coverage Commission. 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.

Current Work

Edwine is the principal investigator on a Wellcome Trust research training fellowship titled

Top 5 Publications

Hospitals as complex adaptive systems: A case study of factors influencing priority setting practices at the hospital level in Kenya

Barasa, E. W., Molyneux, S., English, M., Cleary, S.

Soc Sci Med. 2016; : 104-112

Setting healthcare priorities: a description and evaluation of the budgeting and planning process in county hospitals in Kenya

Barasa, E. W., Cleary, S., Molyneux, S., English, M.

Health Policy Plan. 2016; :

The influence of power and actor relations on priority setting and resource allocation practices at the hospital level in Kenya: a case study

Barasa, E. W., Cleary, S., English, M., Molyneux, S.

BMC Health Serv Res. 2016; : 536

Setting Healthcare Priorities at the Macro and Meso Levels: A Framework for Evaluation

Barasa, E. W., Molyneux, S., English, M., Cleary, S.

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015; : 719-32

A multifaceted intervention to improve the quality of care of children in district hospitals in Kenya: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Barasa, E. W., Ayieko, P., Cleary, S., English, M.

PLoS Med. 2012; : e1001238

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