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• Di McIntyre appointed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network

  The HEU’s Professor Di McIntrye has been appointed to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Thematic Group 5: Health for All. This is a new United Nations (UN) initiative which aims to mobilize scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of integrated sustainable development problem solving at local, national, [...]

  posted on 14 May, 2013 under Latest News, News

• Emerging Tobacco Control Researcher Programme 2013: First call for expressions of interest

  The first call for expressions of interest in the Emerging Tobacco Control Researcher Programme 2013 is out – and applicants should apply by 7 June 2013. Extracts from the brochure: The Economics of Tobacco Control Project at the University of Cape Town is soliciting expressions of interest from potential participants in an Emerging Tobacco Control [...]

  posted on 13 May, 2013 under Latest News, News

• 2014 AfHEA conference call for abstracts

  The third International Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 11 to 13 March 2014. The theme of the conference is the Post-2015 African Health Agenda and UHC: Opportunities and Challenges. The call for abstracts is now open: https://afhea.confex.com/afhea/intl14/cfp.cgi Remember to get your abstracts in [...]

  posted on 13 May, 2013 under Latest News, News

• Health policy and systems research: Needs, challenges and opportunities in South Africa

  Extract from new SA Health Review publication: “The last two decades have seen growing international recognition of the need to strengthen health systems in order to deliver already available cost-effective health interventions. This chapter describes the parallel global growth of the field of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) and outlines what this field of [...]

  posted on 16 April, 2013 under Latest News, News

• new journal articles

  ATAGUBA, J. E., ICHOKU, H. E. & FONTA, W. M. (2013) Multidimensional poverty assessment: applying the capability approach. International Journal of Social Economics, 40, 331 – 354. The purpose of this paper is to compare the assessment of poverty/deprivation using different conceptions of this phenomenon including the traditional money-metric measure and different forms of multidimensional [...]

  posted on 16 April, 2013 under Latest News, News

• NHI: The nuts ‘n’ bolts

  What will the NHI scheme cost? How will it be financed? What will be covered? How does it relate to existing private and public health systems? Where will the personnel come from? These questions echo what ordinary South Africans are wondering about the NHI. Here are some of the answers … Written by WITS Centre [...]

  posted on 12 March, 2013 under In the Media, Latest News, News

• TV debate about NHI on YouTube

  Professor McIntyre participated in South Africa’s television programme on SABC 2  – The Big Debate about the NHI. You can view the programme on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7H7cQVNkM

  posted on 8 March, 2013 under Latest News, News

• Di McIntyre prepares for discussion on post-2015 development goals

  Professor Di McIntyre and Professor Crain Soudien (Deputy Vice-Chancellor) will be participating in post-2015 development goals discussions in New York at the Global Colloquium of University Presidents, which will also be attended by representatives of the United Nations during March 2013. They will be presenting on “what place should public health have in the post-2015 [...]

  posted on 18 February, 2013 under Latest News, News

• Conference presentation on possible provider payment mechanisms

  MCINTYRE, D. (2012) Possible provider payment mechanisms for South Africa. Department of Science and Technology (DST) international seminar on a National Health Insurance (NHI).Pretoria  

  posted on 7 February, 2013 under Latest News, News

• New reports on universal health coverage

  Report of a high level discussion on universal health coverage: Professor Di McIntyre participated in a Rockefeller Foundation Center discussion with other public health care experts in September 2012. The discussion has been documented in a report titled measurement of trends and equity in coverage of health interventions in the context of universal health coverage [...]

  posted on 23 January, 2013 under Latest News, News