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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
Reframing knowledge translation for health policy in Kenya: actors, practices and the constitutive role of context.
Guleid, F. H.
Barasa, E.
Abiiro, G. A.
Nzinga, J.
Health Res Policy Syst, (2026). :
Examining epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine: A scoping review.
Mandaliya, P.
Orangi, S.
Kazungu, J.
Waithaka, D.
Kairu, A.
Bationo, A.
Masiye, F.
Onwujekwe, O.
Barasa, E.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2026). 6:e0005162
Understanding the role of 'software' in health system capacity for non-communicable disease response: hypertension care in rural Coastal Kenya.
Oyando, R.
Kagwanja, N.
Diallo, B. A.
Hassan, S.
Badjie, J.
Lucinde, R.
Mumba, N.
Kinyanjui, S. M.
Perel, P.
Etyang, A.
Barasa, E.
Nolte, E.
Tsofa, B.
Health Policy Plan, (2026). 41:584-598
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). 41:407-420
"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, Rndk
Ng'ang'a, W.
Ravishankar, N.
Barasa, E.
Int J Equity Health, (2026). 25:40
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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Reframing knowledge translation for health policy in Kenya: actors, practices and the constitutive role of context.
Guleid, F. H.
Barasa, E.
Abiiro, G. A.
Nzinga, J.
Health Res Policy Syst, (2026). :
Examining epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine: A scoping review.
Mandaliya, P.
Orangi, S.
Kazungu, J.
Waithaka, D.
Kairu, A.
Bationo, A.
Masiye, F.
Onwujekwe, O.
Barasa, E.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2026). 6:e0005162
Understanding the role of 'software' in health system capacity for non-communicable disease response: hypertension care in rural Coastal Kenya.
Oyando, R.
Kagwanja, N.
Diallo, B. A.
Hassan, S.
Badjie, J.
Lucinde, R.
Mumba, N.
Kinyanjui, S. M.
Perel, P.
Etyang, A.
Barasa, E.
Nolte, E.
Tsofa, B.
Health Policy Plan, (2026). 41:584-598
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). 41:407-420
"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, Rndk
Ng'ang'a, W.
Ravishankar, N.
Barasa, E.
Int J Equity Health, (2026). 25:40
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.