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Researcher

Prof. Edwine Barasa

Executive Director

KEMRI | Wellcome Trust

About

Edwine is the Executive Director for KEMRI-Wellcome Research Programme. As Executive Director Edwine is responsible for delivering the programme vision to conduct high quality, purposeful, and relevant research in human health, building sustainable research capacity and leadership. Edwine is also a Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oxford. His research spans health financing and universal health coverage, priority setting and resource allocation, economic evaluation, and health system governance and resilience. His work has generated critical evidence on UHC in Kenya and the African region, advanced the concept of health system resilience, evidence-informed priority setting, and strategic purchasing, and contributed landmark evidence on health insurance in low- and middle-income countries. Prof. Barasa has served in advisory roles with the World Health Organization and the World Bank, the Africa CDC, and chaired the Africa UHC Commission.

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Current Work

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.

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Recent Publications

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  1. 2026
    Quantifying relative health impact across Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance's portfolio in 117 countries at the subregional level: a modelling study

    Gaythorpe, K. A. M. Li, X. Shankar, et al.

    Lancet. 2026; 407:1941-1952

  2. 2026
    Mapping evidence for health policy and systems decision-making: a spectrum approach bridging tacit and scientific knowledge across local and global contexts

    Waithaka, D. Tsofa, B. Glenton, et al.

    Health Res Policy Syst. 2026

  3. 2026
    Effects of health insurance on out-of-pocket payments: a coarsened exact matching analysis using Kenya's 2022 demographic and health survey

    Okova, D. Tafadzwa Lukwa, A. Oyando, et al.

    BMJ Open. 2026; 16:e111675

  4. 2026
    Examining evidence use in vaccine policymaking in Kenya: A qualitative case study

    Waithaka, D. Lewin, S. Nzinga, et al.

    Health Policy Plan. 2026

  5. 2026
    Economic burden of typhoid among hospitalised children in Kenya

    Mandaliya, P. Orangi, S. Waluke, et al.

    BMJ Glob Health. 2026; 11