🚨 AfHESG Training Alert!🚨
📢 Want to understand how power, politics & policy shape health systems reforms and outcomes?
Join the hybrid #AfHESG training and deepen your understanding of Political Economy Analysis!
🗓️March 27th, 2026
🔗Register here 👉: https://t.co/2oubeiTGSB
New paper on https://t.co/rn0Qpxe626 by @gatonievas & @PaulaDruschke finds that 70% of World Bank and IMF funds are allocated to G7 geopolitically aligned countries.
Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of democracy but in practice they have built an undemocratic international system to benefit from the collective resources of global public goods, institutionalizing the political inequalities between global South and global North.
🔗https://t.co/pCV0WsBjCi
4 weeks left ⏳ LSE Health is offering 2 fully funded PhDs in African health economics & diagnostics via the #AHEaD programme.
Use the Easter break to prepare your proposal.
Deadline 27 April 👉 https://t.co/MIDlwpK2cX
#HealthEconomics#PhDOpportunity
🚨 AfHESG Training Alert 🚨
Join our March session on Political Economy Analysis (PEA) to explore how politics, power, and context shape health system reforms and outcomes.
📅 27 March 2026
🔗 https://t.co/wy3IUN2Xfq
@KEMRI_Wellcome
Out-of-pocket spending is still far too high in many countries in the African Region, leaving families exposed to financial shock when they seek care.
We’re sick of it and we demand action.
#UHCDay2025#UHCinAfrica#HealthFinancing
Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call.
🔗https://t.co/R6mNpSUxMT
There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what our historical series available on https://t.co/3orZXT8SHo are clearly showing.
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/8)👇
https://t.co/nQ7CLsRck7
🎉 Professor Philippe Aghion from the Department of Economics at LSE has jointly won the Nobel Prize in Economics!
With Peter Howitt, Professor Aghion developed the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.
Congratulations to all three laureates! 👏👏👏
Rory Stewart, ex Tory MP, slams Lammy, Starmer and the UK 🇬🇧 Government:
‘Training IDF soldiers’
‘Flying spy missions for Israel 🇮🇱’
‘Not standing up for lawyers sanctioned by 🇺🇸 for working with the ICC’
The world is waking up.
Starmer & Lammy 🇬🇧 should be in The Hague.
Deadline Extended!
Apply for a fully funded PhD with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, supported by NIHR! Conduct your research at a world-class research programme, with complete support for tuition, stipend, and research costs.
Apply: https://t.co/m8PwBre4rg
Deadline: June 3, 2025
🎉 From two alumni winning the #NobelPrize in Economic Sciences to celebrating our prestigious University of the Year award – it's been a busy year at #LSE!
Here are some of the memorable moments from #2024 👇
When people get the health care they need and are protected from the financial burden, lives improve, communities thrive, and economies grow. #UniversalHealthCoverage and financial protection for health must be a national priority in every country. #UHCDay
🚨Deadline Extension!🚨
The deadline for the @KEMRI_Wellcome fully funded PhD studentships has been extended!
Apply now and seize this opportunity to acquire valuable skills & mentorship to address Africa’s health challenges.
🔗 Apply here: [https://t.co/2MPe6odRnZ]
🗓️ Deadline: December 16, 2024
Disseminating key insights from the PHC Health Financing Reforms Study in Kenya: explored effects of PHC donor transitions, removal of user fees grant, and recent reforms like Facility Autonomy, UHC, and Primary Care Network (PCNs). #HealthReforms#PHC#Kenya
I'm looking for an RA to help with dataset cleaning, coding & analysis, but also other tasks. Would need to know Stata and speak French & English. The work is related to informal tax institutions.
Please reach out if you happen to know anyone that may be interested! Thanks! 🙏
Training Alert!!!
Join us for the September #AfHESGTraining session. This month we will discuss Discrete Choice Experiments with a focus on Experimental Design!
Date: 27 September 2024
Registration link: https://t.co/4JtNXpapXe
#DCE#ChoiceModeling#HealthEconomics