Dr Edwine Barasa

Edwine is the director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Nairobi programme in Kenya, heads the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), and co-chairs the health systems research theme of the programme. He has a PhD in health economics (University of Cape Town), a masters degree in health economics (University of Cape Town), and a bachelors degree in Pharmacy (University of Nairobi). Edwine’s research interests include health financing, equity and efficiency analysis in healthcare, the economics of non-communicable diseases, economic evaluation of healthcare interventions, measuring health systems performance, and health system governance.