Research

This work is funded by a Wellcome Trust fellowship and aims to examine the policy and implementation of HIV prevention through private retail pharmacies in Kenya. Specifically, the study is focusing on the HIV self-testing and the pre-exposure prophylaxis policies in Kenya. The project includes (i) a policy analysis to examine the current policy environment surrounding HIV prevention through private retail pharmacies in Kenya (ii) a mixed-methods process evaluation and (iii) literature review and expert nominal group consultations with industry stakeholders to identify and design implementation strategies.

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This study is a collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is funded by UK Research and Innovation. The study aims to develop and test implementation strategies for fixed-dose combination (FDC) medicines for treatment of hypertension and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The project will be carried out in Kenya and will (i) identify health system factors and their interactions that influence implementation (ii) design and assess feasibility of implementation strategies and (iii) assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the interventions.

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The QuEST project aims at building evidence to support transformation to high quality health systems by improving measurement, testing solutions, and creating generalizable knowledge in partnership with changemakers. It’s a multi-country consortia of 6 QuEST centres/countries and research affiliate spread across Africa, Latin Americas, India and Harvard funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. QuEST’s research objectives are i) Prepare evidence base for service delivery redesign by conducting feasibility assessments and co-developing models for service delivery redesign for maternal and newborn survival ii) Develop and test a People’s Voice Survey to understand the public’s pulse on health system quality including utilization preferences, quality expectations, care quality, confidence in health system and iii) Develop and test E-Cohorts for Maternal and Newborn Health mapping the care trajectory, care quality, women’s experience, and health outcomes for mothers and newborns to diagnose critical points in the care pathway

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AHOP is a a regional collaborative initiative which supports and promotes the transfer of evidence and experience between countries to foster action by, supporting rigorous analysis of health systems to generate knowledge evidence linked to key health system thematic areas, increasing awareness and uptake of available evidence and expertise from policy makers and building the capacity of policy makers on evidence informed policy making at national and regional levels. The Platform leverages existing national and regional collaborations to form a network of 5 National Centres in Africa and is hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) which serves as the Regional Secretariat and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Platform also draws on support from WHO AFRO as hosts and from a technical consortium including the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and national, regional and global partners. Platform partners work on producing a range of health systems analysis at the national and regional level, focusing on evidence for action:

1. Part of ‘Health Systems in Transition’ series; HiTs are detailed reviews of a country’s health system, reform and policy initiatives
2. Policy briefs tailored to the needs of health policy-makers for informing them about available evidence on specific questions and issues, presented in an accessible and user-friendly format
3. Comparative and thematic studies providing in-depth analysis of a specific health system function or issue based on secondary research and
4. Policy dialogues targeting senior policy-makers and advisers, and marshalling support for key decision points which also serve as a mechanism drawing in expertise and policy-makers to foster mutual learning.

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The overall goal of SUPPORT is to explore how decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and universal health coverage (UHC) can be made more inclusive, responsive and accountable. The study aims at generating insights that can help policymakers and stakeholders implement inclusive and accountable evidence based decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and UHC. Specifically, the study will i) Identify factors affecting the participation and agency of civil society during national and subnational evidence-informed health policy processes ii) Explore how policymakers in Ghana and Kenya engage with, value and use different types of evidence, particularly qualitative evidence on stakeholder views and experiences, when making health systems decisions on service delivery reforms and iii) Develop new tools to support inclusive and accountable health systems decisions at national and subnational levels. The project is led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust), and the Global Health Politics Group at the University of Oslo and funded by the Research Council of Norway

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