AHO Platform on Health Systems & Policies was launched with a webinar on 23 November 2020. The webinar event featured presentations and discussion on knowledge production in the African Region and its impact on policy-making. The focus on evidence-informed approaches is timely as the COVID-19 pandemic has been marred with misinformation. Robust research and the […]
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) presented on 14 April the newly redesigned integrated African Health Observatory (iAHO), an online strategic health information platform that provides a real-time view of what is happening in the health sector in the Region. https://youtu.be/xeR2IKSDRsM
Systems Thinking Accelerator (SYSTAC) – Capacity Webinar Series Are you a policy/decision-maker, public health practitioner, or health policy and systems researcher wanting to know more about how to apply systems thinking to your work? Join the Systems Thinking Accelerator (SYSTAC) as we delve into these topics more deeply, exploring concepts and applications of systems thinking […]
The Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) is organising this panel discussion together with LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, Global Health Initiative, and supported by the African Health Observatory - Platform on Health Systems and Policies. The expert panel explored (and heath technology) equity means for global management of […]
Systems Thinking Accelerator (SYSTAC) – Capacity Webinar Series Are you a policy/decision-maker, public health practitioner, or health policy and systems researcher wanting to know more about how to apply systems thinking to your work? Join the Systems Thinking Accelerator (SYSTAC) as we delve into these topics more deeply, exploring concepts and applications of systems thinking […]
Central to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is to improve service coverage, financial access, and financial protection for health service users. Concerned about Nigeria’s slow pace toward UHC, the Nigerian National Centre (NC) of the African Health Observatory Platform (AHOP) organized a Policy Dialogue that brought together key members of the National Healthcare […]
The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) is pleased to invite experts, analysts, practitioners and researchers in the relevant health fields to the sixth Scientific Conference to be held virtually and online from 7-11 March 2022. Visit the conference website for more details: https://afhea.org/en/conferences/afhea-2022
Senegal is committed to the collective World Health Organisation vaccination strategy against COVID-19 that aims to vaccinate at least 40% of the population by the end of 2021. At the start of 2022, the vaccination target was far from being reached in Africa. Only 21 countries (including Senegal) had administered two doses to less than […]
From 28th to 30th March 2023, the African Health Observatory Platform held its third face-to-face meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.
On 14 September 2023, the African Health Observatory - Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP) and the London School of Economics (LSE) hosted an event on health workforce migration from sub-Saharan Africa to the UK.
The African Health Observatory Platform, in collaboration with the Global Surgery Policy Unit, held a policy dialogue on 1 December, 2023, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The focus of the dialogue was to address critical shortages in surgical workforce by designing effective task-shifting programmes.