Alison Mhazo
@tichmhazo
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LSHTM/LSE Alumnus, Joint Japan World Bank scholar, Health systems and policy research, politics of health, access to medicines , governance, financing
Malawi
Joined February 2011
Can COVID-19 be leveraged to promote domestic financing for health systems strengthening in the WHO African Region? NEW publication with @Arush_Lal @MOSSIALOS in @socscimed Health Systems. @seyeabimbola @DinaBalabanova @john_ataguba @Lucy_Gilson
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"The key positive lesson from the pandemic is that Zimbabwe is capable of raising domestic resources to fund HSS. However, there is no guarantee that such funding will be maintained. There is a need, then, to reconsider government’s stewardship for HSS"
Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ‘We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19
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‘External funding is fragile & unsustainable, which reinforces the oft-ignored reality that health system strengthening is a sovereign mandate of country-level authorities that falls outside the core interests of donors ’@kchalkidou @GerardSchmets @JoeKutzin @EdwineBarasa
Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ‘We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19
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Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ‘We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19
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RT @DinaBalabanova: Fascinating study into the dynamics of #healthsystemsstrenthening Often a fine line between supporting health systems i…
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RT @EdwineBarasa: We thought supporting was strengthening: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in…
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@asoucat @zubin_shroff83 @AllianceHPSR @SojiAdeyi @sophie_witter @PowersSparkes Still rethinking external assistance for health
Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ‘We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19
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‘External funders should refrain from labelling every form of assistance as health system strengthening as this may lead to unmet expectations amongst both recipient countries and external funders’ @Lucy_Gilson @seyeabimbola @DinaBalabanova @HPP_LSHTM
Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ‘We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19
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Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ‘We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19
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Please read our new @PLOSGPH paper: "Tuberculosis commodities supply chain performance in the WHO African region: A scoping review" We summarize evidence for TB PSM performance and offer recommendations @StopTB @KNCVTBPlus @UnionConference
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RT @seyeabimbola: Please read this important essay titled "Come and Learn" in @LancetChildAdol by @Zvandiri Youth Advocates, based in #Zimb…
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RT @GlobalHealthBMJ: "COVID-19 should be seen as a critical event to stimulate primary health care debates but tangible reforms would be dr…
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'COVID-19 provides a momentous opportunity under which the image of PHC has been reconstructed in the context of health security. After the UNHLM on UHC, commitment should be evaluated based on tangible deliverables not episodic 'high level endorsements' @CSOs4UHC @BeatNCDsZim
Our new paper: Retracing loss of momentum for primary health care: can renewed political interest in the context of COVID-19 be a turning point? @GlobalHealthBMJ
@seyeabimbola @DinaBalabanova @Arush_Lal @Lucy_Gilson @IPHCEt @rashida_abbferr @paimadhu
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Our new paper: Retracing loss of momentum for primary health care: can renewed political interest in the context of COVID-19 be a turning point? @GlobalHealthBMJ
@seyeabimbola @DinaBalabanova @Arush_Lal @Lucy_Gilson @IPHCEt @rashida_abbferr @paimadhu
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Indeed.Check out my IHP blog on declarative commitments for health and the UNHLM on UHC.
In 2023, world leaders have a unique opportunity to reinvigorate progress towards #HealthForAll. #Universalhealthcoverage means that all people have access to the quality health services they need, when & where they need them, without risk of financial hardship and poverty. #SDGs
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‘After the UNHLM, the terms of progress must urgently shift from expressing commitment to ‘doing UHC’. One needs to realize that UHC is not a policy, it is an aspiration, and aspirations are achieved through a process, not wishes. Wishing is most certainly not a strategy’
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‘After the UNHLM, the terms of progress must urgently shift from expressing commitment to ‘doing UHC’. One needs to realize that UHC is not a policy, it is an aspiration, and aspirations are achieved through a process, not wishes. Wishing is most certainly not a strategy’
On declarative commitments for health & the upcoming UN High-Level meeting on Universal Health Coverage : “Time to go to the shops together” This week's Feat article by Alison Mhazo @tichmhazo.
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RT @IHPblog: On declarative commitments for health & the upcoming UN High-Level meeting on Universal Health Coverage : “Time to go to the…
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Whilst epidemic securitisation by norm-setting institutions such as WHO is critical to stimulate political action, the transnational diffusion of such charged frames needs to be viewed in relation to how policy makers filter the perceived policy and political implications.
New paper-Governing a pandemic: biopower and the COVID-19 response in Zimbabwe We use Foucault’s theoretical differentiation of the political management of epidemics to understand the biopolitical response to COVID-19 in Zimbabwe @GlobalHealthBMJ
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'A N-S collaborative HIV pharmacotherapy programme has been under implementation in Zimbabwe since 1998. Sustainability and impact relied on local actors who possess the attributes of policy entrepreneurs and alignment of research with the country's developmental agenda'
Check out our new paper : A framework for sustainable capacity-building for collaborative North–South translational health research and training in a resource-constrained setting.
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