Edwine is the Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya and also the head of the Programme’s Health Economics Unit. Edwine is also a Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oxford. He has a PhD in Health Economics (University of Cape Town), a Master’s Degree in Health Economics (University of Cape Town), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy (University of Nairobi). Edwine’s interests include health financing; equity and efficiency analysis in healthcare; economic evaluation of healthcare interventions; measuring health systems’ performance; and health system governance. Edwine has several years of experience of practice, advisory, and conducting health economics and financing research in Kenya and in the broader Sub-Saharan African region. He provides health financing advisory to the Kenya Ministry of Health with his latest roles including appointments by the Minister of Health to the taskforce for the reform of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and Kenya Health Benefits Advisory Panel. He also provides health financing technical advisory support to several international development organizations, including the World Bank and the World Health Organisation (WHO), focusing on the broader Sub-Saharan African region including Kenya, Ghana, Somalia, Malawi, Madagascar, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, and Egypt. He was recently appointed as a member of the advisory board of the Africa CDC’s Health Economic Unit.