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Prof. Edwine Barasa
Ag. Executive Director
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Edwine is the Acting Executive Director for KWTRP. 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 master's degree in health economics (University of Cape Town), and a bachelor’s 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 COVID-19 vaccine deployment, 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 chair of the advisory board of the Africa CDC’s Health Economic Programme, and as 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.
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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.
Recent publications
Rethinking the evidence on COVID-19 in Africa.
Bejon, P., Agweyu, A., Ochola-Oyier, L. I., Hamaluba, M., Kamuya, D., Kinyanjui, S., Barasa, E.
Lancet Infect Dis, (2025). :
Evaluating the impact, implementation experience and political economy of primary care networks in Kenya: protocol for a mixed methods study.
Amboko, B., Nzinga, J., Tsofa, B., Mugo, P., Musiega, A., Maritim, B., Wong, E., Mazzilli, C., Ng'ang'a, W., Hagedorn, B., Turner, G., Musuva, A., Murira, F., Ravishankar, N., Hussein, S., Barasa, E.
Health Res Policy Syst, (2025). 23:14
What can we learn about everyday health system resilience and pandemic response and preparedness from Kenyan and South African COVID-19 experiences?.
Gilson, L., Barasa, E., Cloete, K., Kasera, K., Tsofa, B., Vallabhjee, K.
Handbook of Health System Resilience, (2024). :380-402
Everyday health system resilience: the theory.
Gilson, L., Barasa, E.
Handbook of Health System Resilience, (2024). :44-60
Evaluating the effects, implementation experience and political economy of primary healthcare facility autonomy reforms within counties in Kenya: a mixed methods study protocol.
Musiega, A., Amboko, B., Maritim, B., Nzinga, J., Tsofa, B., Mugo, P. M., Wong, E., Mazzilli, C., Ng'ang'a, W., Hagedorn, B. L., Turner, G., Musuva, A., Murira, F., Ravishankar, N., Barasa, E.
BMJ Public Health, (2024). 2:e001156