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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. He is a 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
"Poverty is a social issue, not a mathematical problem": examining the lessons for beneficiary identification from implementation of the UHC indigent program in Kenya.
Maritim, B., Mbau, R., Musiega, A., Musuva, A., Amboko, B., Tsofa, B., Mazzilli, C., Vilcu, I., Wong, E., Murira, F., Nzinga, J., Boxshall, M., Mugo, P., Muthuri, R. N. D. K., Ng'ang'a, W., Ravishankar, N., Barasa, E.
Int J Equity Health, (2026). :
Identifying Community Pharmacists Preferences for Attributes of Public Health Interventions in Kenya: A Discrete Choice Experiment.
Mumbi, A., Abiiro, G. A., Kazungu, J., Nzinga, J., Barasa, E.
Health Policy Plan, (2026). :
Power, Interests, and Maternal Health Care: A Political Economy Analysis of Service Delivery Redesign in Kenya.
Nzinga, J., Olwanda, E., Opondo, K., Kimutai, H., Cooper, J., Arwah, B., Tsofa, B., Barasa, E., Croke, K.
Health Policy Plan, (2025). :
Institutional design features of health insurance subsidy programmes in Africa: a narrative review.
Wafula, A., Barasa, E., Maritim, B.
Int J Equity Health, (2025). :
Avoidable pitfalls on the path to health financing self-reliance in low-income and middle-income countries.
Barasa, E., Chuma, J., Nonvignon, J., Adeyi, O. O.
BMJ Glob Health, (2025). 10:
Biography
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. He is a 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.
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"Poverty is a social issue, not a mathematical problem": examining the lessons for beneficiary identification from implementation of the UHC indigent program in Kenya.
Maritim, B., Mbau, R., Musiega, A., Musuva, A., Amboko, B., Tsofa, B., Mazzilli, C., Vilcu, I., Wong, E., Murira, F., Nzinga, J., Boxshall, M., Mugo, P., Muthuri, R. N. D. K., Ng'ang'a, W., Ravishankar, N., Barasa, E.
Int J Equity Health, (2026). :
Identifying Community Pharmacists Preferences for Attributes of Public Health Interventions in Kenya: A Discrete Choice Experiment.
Mumbi, A., Abiiro, G. A., Kazungu, J., Nzinga, J., Barasa, E.
Health Policy Plan, (2026). :
Power, Interests, and Maternal Health Care: A Political Economy Analysis of Service Delivery Redesign in Kenya.
Nzinga, J., Olwanda, E., Opondo, K., Kimutai, H., Cooper, J., Arwah, B., Tsofa, B., Barasa, E., Croke, K.
Health Policy Plan, (2025). :
Institutional design features of health insurance subsidy programmes in Africa: a narrative review.
Wafula, A., Barasa, E., Maritim, B.
Int J Equity Health, (2025). :
Avoidable pitfalls on the path to health financing self-reliance in low-income and middle-income countries.
Barasa, E., Chuma, J., Nonvignon, J., Adeyi, O. O.
BMJ Glob Health, (2025). 10:
Biography
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. He is a 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.