Guest Speaker: Phidelis N Wamalwa and Edmund Yeboah, University of Heidelberg
Moderator: Dr. Christiph Strupat
Paper: Do free healthcare policies play a role in expanding national health insurance enrollment among informal sector workers? The case of the Afya Care pilot program in Kenya
Registration: https://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/YHfc-BolREqBPzL8TDcYHQ
The upcoming Journal Club edition of the GLOHRA Academy Series will be organized in cooperation with Amref Health Africa (Deutschland) on primary health care research. For a more fruitful discussion, participants are encouraged to read the article, though this is not obligatory.
The Series directs special attention towards the added value of interdisciplinary and international cooperation in global health research. Every first Tuesday of the month, speakers share insights into their research projects while focusing on research processes, methods, as well as lessons learned. Following the speaker’s 30-minute presentation, the Series encourages an academic exchange between the speaker and the audience in a 30-minute Q&A session.
Phidelis N. Wamalwa works in the Health Economics & Health Financing research group at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH). She has a background in Nursing, public health, and epidemiology and her research interests include Health insurance including universal health coverage, service access, utilization and quality improvement, impact and process evaluation, cost effectiveness analysis health policy and advocacy. Edmund Yeboah is also based at HIGH. He has a background in agriculture and life science economics and policy, with his research focusing on health systems strengthening, health financing, and equality in health spending. In their presentation Wamalwa and Yeboah will present insights from their study on Kenya’s Afya Care pilot program. They will discuss whether such free healthcare policies can motivate informal sector workers to enroll in the National Health Insurance Scheme.