Stakeholder Engagement & Evidence Communication – Seminar from Director of Public Policies IEPS
We recently had the the pleasure of having a presentation from Arthur Aguilar, the Public Policy Director at Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde (IEPS) on Stakeholder engagement and evidence communication. Drawing from his previous experience, the seminar addressed mapping relevant actors for a given agenda, understanding the role of each actor in defining…
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HFACT Training & Networking Week 2024
The Centre for Economics (CHE) at the University of York had the privilege of hosting Dr Rudi Rocha, as well as a group of young scholars representing HFACT partners for the week commencing 22 January 2024. Many thanks to Evelyn Thsehla (PRICELESS), Gustavo Cordeiro (IEPS), Adriano Teixeira (Fipe), Kanksha Barman (IEG), Vastav Ratra (IEG) and…
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HFACT Seminar Series in Full Swing
In September, we launched the HFACT Seminar series, kicking off the series with research presented by Vishalie Shah (CHE), Taufik Hidayat (CHEPS) and Royasia Ramadani (CHEPS). The inaugural seminar was titled Health-related impacts of demand-side policies: evidence from Indonesia’s conditional cash transfer and national health insurance for the poor programmes. The seminar was well attended with…
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Universitas Indonesia Visits University of York
On 11 October 2023, the HFACT team at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York had the pleasure and privilege of welcoming a delegation of researchers, public health officials, and economists from the Universitas Indonesia for a one-day workshop and training event. Members of the delegation from Universitas Indonesia included HFACT members from…
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HFACT Inception Meeting
HFACT Inception Meeting 4-7 July 2023 hosted by PRICELESS/WITS SA HFACT held a “kick-off” meeting to bring together all project partners to get to know one another. Delegates from CHEPS (Indonesia), CHE (UK), Fipe (Brazil), IEG (India), IEPS (Brazil) and Imperial College (UK) joined the PRICELESS team in Johannesburg to discuss research activities taking place…
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HFACT Partner Lead Wins Gold Medal for Applying Science for the Benefit of Society
Congratulations to Dr Karen Hofman of PRICELESS SA Congratulations to PRICELESS HFACT lead Dr Karen Hofman for recently being honoured with a Gold Medal for her application of scientific thinking in the service of society. Her efforts have resulted in an increase in health for people in South Africa. Dr Hofman advocated the Health Promotion…
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