Kigali: AfHEA Conference 2025
The AfHEA 2025 Conference will take place from March 10 to 14, 2025, in Kigali, Rwanda.
The general theme of the 2025 conference is: Resilient and Robust African Health Systems: Contributions of Health Economics and Policy.
Sub-Themes of the Conference
- Strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC) for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
- Primary health care as a driver for improved service access.
- Assessing PHC performance.
- Financing PHC services.
- Improving the quality of health care delivery.
- Health Financing and Economic Sustainability
- Innovative health financing models in Africa.
- Public-private partnerships in health financing.
- Economic implications of health system resilience.
- Healthcare Access and Equity
- Tackling disparities in healthcare access.
- Strategies to improve healthcare equity.
- Addressing social determinants of health such as poverty, education, gender inequalities, and environmental factors, while enhancing educational and employment opportunities and ensuring access to clean water and sanitation.
- Community Engagement and Empowerment
- Community-based health interventions.
- Strengthening community health systems.
- The impact of community engagement on health outcomes.
- Building community resilience.
- Health Infrastructure and Workforce
- Investing in health infrastructure, including hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and medical supply chains, to ensure quality health services.
- Addressing health workforce shortages, improving training and retention, and supporting community health workers to enhance healthcare delivery.
- Health Information Systems and Digital Health Technologies
- Strengthening health information systems and data collection mechanisms for evidence-based decision-making.
- Leveraging digital technologies to improve the timely availability of quality data.
- Collecting and using quality data to monitor progress, make decisions, and target interventions effectively.
- Evaluating telehealth and its economic implications.
- Digital health tools for cost-effective healthcare.
- Technological advancements in effective health data management to enhance service delivery and monitoring.
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness
- Pandemic response and preparedness.
- Economic implications of health emergencies.
- Building resilient health systems to ensure health security.
- Health Outcomes and Performance Measurement
- Metrics for assessing health system performance.
- Economic evaluation of health interventions.
- Strengthening Health System Governance
- Policy reforms to improve health system resilience.
- Health governance and regulatory frameworks.
- Collaborative efforts among African countries for health system improvements.
- Regional health policies and their impact.
- Lessons from successful regional health initiatives.
Call for Abstracts
Health economists, public health researchers, and health policy experts are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts addressing the general theme, sub-themes, or any other innovative, timely, or relevant research on African health systems. Selected submissions, reviewed by our scientific committee, may be presented orally or as posters during the conference.
Contact Us
For any questions or clarifications, please contact:
Ms. Grace Njeri Muriithi, AfHEA Secretary
- Email: conference@afhea.org (cc: afhea24@gmail.com)
- Website: https://afhea.org/en/conferences/
- Registration: https://asfm2025.co.za/french/registration/
Organizer
The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) is a non-political and non-profit organization established in March 2009 in Accra, Ghana. Bilingual (English and French), it brings together over 350 individual members as well as institutional members engaged in health economics, financing, and policy across Africa.
Mission
AfHEA is dedicated to improving health systems in Africa by leveraging health economics and policy analysis. Its goal is to achieve equitable and efficient outcomes, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable populations.
Key Activities
- Capacity building: Supporting the development of health economics expertise, especially in low-income countries.
- Policy support: Promoting the use of health economics tools to guide policymakers in their decision-making processes.
- Idea exchange: Providing a platform for researchers and policymakers to share information and ideas.
Vision
AfHEA envisions better and more equitable health outcomes for Africans through improved policies and effective resource utilization.
By upholding principles such as efficiency, accountability, and transparency, AfHEA positions itself as a key player in addressing public health challeng
