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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.Collaborations
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Publications
A qualitative inquiry on drivers of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among adults in Kenya.
Orangi, S., Mbuthia, D., Chondo, E., Ngunu, C., Kabia, E., Ojal, J., Barasa, E.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2024). 4:e0002986
Examining multiple funding flows to public healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries - results from case studies in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Vietnam.
Dkhimi, F., Honda, A., Hanson, K., Mbau, R., Onwujekwe, O., Phuong, H. T., Mathauer, I., Akhnif, E. H., Jaouadi, I., Kiendrébéogo, J. A., Ezumah, N., Kabia, E., Barasa, E.
Health Policy Plan, (2023). 38:1139-1153
Budget monitoring, accountability practices and their influence on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya.
Musiega, A., Nyawira, L., Tsofa, B., Njuguna, R. G., Munywoki, J., Hanson, K., Mulwa, A., Molyneux, S., Maina, I., Normand, C., Jemutai, J., Barasa, E.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2023). 3:e0001908
Examining multiple funding flows to public healthcare providers in low- and middle-income settings (LMICs) - results from case studies in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Vietnam.
Dkhimi, F., Honda, A., Hanson, K., Mbau, R., Onwujekwe, O., Phuong, H. T., Mathauer, I., Akhnif, H. E., Jaouadi, I., Kiendrébéogo, J., Ezumah, N., Kabia, E., Barasa, E.
Health Policy Plan, (2023). 38:1139-1153
Exploring the Adaptations of the Free Maternity Policy Implementation by Health Workers and County Officials in Kenya.
Oyugi, B., Kendall, S., Peckham, S., Orangi, S., Barasa, E.
Glob Health Sci Pract, (2023). 11:
Impact of COVID-19 on mortality in coastal Kenya: a longitudinal open cohort study.
Otiende, M., Nyaguara, A., Bottomley, C., Walumbe, D., Mochamah, G., Amadi, D., Nyundo, C., Kagucia, E. W., Etyang, A. O., Adetifa, I. M. O., Brand, S. P. C., Maitha, E., Chondo, E., Nzomo, E., Aman, R., Mwangangi, M., Amoth, P., Kasera, K., Ng'ang'a, W., Barasa, E., Tsofa, B., Mwangangi, J., Bejon, P., Agweyu, A., Williams, T. N., Scott, J. A. G.
Nat Commun, (2023). 14:6879
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and implications for population immunity: Evidence from two Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in Kenya, February-December 2022.
Kagucia, E. W., Ziraba, A. K., Nyagwange, J., Kutima, B., Kimani, M., Akech, D., Ng'oda, M., Sigilai, A., Mugo, D., Karanja, H., Gitonga, J., Karani, A., Toroitich, M., Karia, B., Otiende, M., Njeri, A., Aman, R., Amoth, P., Mwangangi, M., Kasera, K., Ng'ang'a, W., Voller, S., Ochola-Oyier, L. I., Bottomley, C., Nyaguara, A., Munywoki, P. K., Bigogo, G., Maitha, E., Uyoga, S., Gallagher, K. E., Etyang, A. O., Barasa, E., Mwangangi, J., Bejon, P., Adetifa, I. M. O., Warimwe, G. M., Scott, J. A. G., Agweyu, A.
Influenza Other Respir Viruses, (2023). 17:e13173
Health system resilience: a critical review and reconceptualisation.
Witter, S., Thomas, S., Topp, S. M., Barasa, E., Chopra, M., Cobos, D., Blanchet, K., Teddy, G., Atun, R., Ager, A.
Lancet Glob Health, (2023). 11:e1454-e1458
Political Prioritisation for Performance-Based Financing at the County Level in Kenya: 2015 to 2018.
Waithaka, D., Gilson, L., Barasa, E., Tsofa, B., Orgill, M.
Int J Health Policy Manag, (2023). 12:6909
Using an intersectionality approach to transform health services for overlooked healthcare users and workers after covid-19.
Mothupi, M., Dasgupta, J., Hosseini Jebeli, S. S., Stevenson, J., Berdichevsky, K., Vong, S., Barasa, E., George, A.
Bmj, (2023). 381:e072243