Justice Nonvignon is Acting Head of the Health Economics and Financing Programme at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, an autonomous technical health agency of the African Union based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also a Professor of Health Economics at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana. He is a public health researcher with extensive experience in teaching and mentoring students and engaging with policymakers from various countries in Africa.
Nonvignon has a long history of leveraging research and health economics evidence to strengthen public health programs, including in over a dozen countries in Africa. He frequently advises major global health players including WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, USAID, and others. He has served on over 30 at the national and global levels, member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Pandemic Fund hosted by the World Bank, Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on infectious hazards of epidemic and Pandemic potential, the Gavi Evaluation Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the Ministry of Health Ghana's Health Technology Assessment Technical Working Group, and member of the advisory board of the Global Health Economic Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a past Chair of the Global Evaluation and Monitoring Network for Health, a network of 11 universities in 9 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States of America leading monitoring and evaluation capacity strengthening and technical assistance. Justice has published over 100 peer review articles, book chapters, commentaries in the areas of health economics, financing, policy, monitoring and evaluation
I have strong skills in design and assessments in:
- Health economics: Cost-effectiveness analysis and other economic evaluation/health technology assessment techniques (cost analysis, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-utility and cost-minimization analyses) of population, health, nutrition and environmental programs
- Health financing, including fiscal space analysis and financing of health systems, financing of public health emergencies and transitions in health financing
- Monitoring and evaluation: Impact and process evaluation of population, health and nutrition programs
- Health systems and health policy, political economy analyses
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Head Health Economics and Financing Programme (Division) |
Center for Global Development Non-Resident Fellow |
Member, Quadripartite (FAO/UNEP/WHO/WOAH) Technical Group on the Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance https://www.who.int/news/item/21-06-2023-formation-of-the-quadripartite-technical[1] group-on-the-economics-of-antimicrobial-resistance |
University of Ghana School of Public Health Professor of Health Economics |
World Health Organization Member, Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards of pandemic and epidemic potential – STAG-IH https://www.who.int/groups/strategic-and-technical-advisory-group-for-infectious-hazards-(stag-ih) |
World Bank Member, Pandemic Fund Technical Advisory Panel https://www.thepandemicfund.org/who-we-are/technical-advisory-pane
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Africa: My work at the Africa CDC focuses on all 55 Member States of the African Union, providing technical advice to governments and engaging with senior policymakers and supporting country, regional and continental needs in leveraging health economics evidence for policy. I have also, through the work, engaged with senior representatives of several foundations, multilateral and bilateral donor and international organizations. Before joining the Africa CDC, my academic and research work included using evidence to advice governments and agencies in sub-Saharan Africa (specifically Botswana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Comoros, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) as well as bilateral and multilateral partners and other technical partners.
- Bachelor:
- University of Ghana (Public Health): Health Policy, to a total of 325 students since 2012/13 academic year (8 cohorts)
- New York University (Global Public Health): Two cohorts (total of 15 students): Health policy in a global world
- Master, University of Ghana:
- Master of Public Health: Applied Economics for Health Policy, to a total of 289 MPH students since 2012/13 academic year (10 cohorts regular, other special programs)
- Master of Public Health Monitoring & Evaluation: Economic Evaluation (including cost-effectiveness analysis), Impact Evaluation, total of 49 students (2 cohorts)
- Doctoral, University of Ghana:
- Leadership in Public Health, to a total of 143 PhD public health students since 2013/14 academic year (9 cohorts)
- Doctoral: Health Systems Evaluation (including cost-effectiveness analysis), to a total of 35 PhD public health students since 2013/14 academic years (9 cohorts)
- Since 2012: Supervised
- Bachelor: 14 Bachelor of Public Health projects
- Master: 37 dissertations
- Doctoral: 12 (5 primary, 7 secondary), 7 to completion; 1 at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Served as field supervisor and mentor for PhD students from Yale University School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, UK; and three master of global health students from Duke Global Health Institute, USA
- Internal Examiner: University of Ghana: 28 MPH student theses, 3 PhD student theses
- External Examiner:
- School of Economics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana: 3 PhD, 3 MPhil examined
- Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa: One PhD; 4 MPH examined
- Department of Health Policy, Planning & Mgt, Univ of Health & Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
- Department of Health Services Planning and Management, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana: 42 MPH, two PhD examined
- Economics Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana: One PhD examined
- School of Public Health, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania, 14 MSc examined
- Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Scotland: one PhD thesis examined
- Strathmore Business School, Kenya: One PhD student
- Led development of curriculum for Master of Health Economics programme for SPH UG
- Led development of curriculum for Master of Science Public Health Monitoring & Evaluation programme for SPH UG
- Developed courses on Health Systems Evaluation and Leadership in Public Health as part of Doctor of Public Health curriculum for SPH UG
- Provided technical assistance to Measure Evaluation Project, in the development & implementation of MSc. Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation in Health curriculum for Muhimbili Univ of Health & Allied Sciences, Tanzania
Member of Committee that developed core competencies for advanced training in Monitoring and Evaluation of population, health and nutrition programmes for Global Evaluation and Monitoring Network for Health (GEMNet-Health).