Prof. Justice Nonvignon is Professor of Health Economics at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, and Technical Director for Health Economics and Financing at Management Sciences for Health, Accra. From 2021 to 2024, he served as founding Head of the Health Economics and Financing Division at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African Union's continental public health agency. His research spans economic evaluation, health technology assessment, health financing transitions, and the political economy of development assistance for health. He is Board Director for Africa at the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and serves on the advisory panels of the World Bank Pandemic Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. He is a Member of the Board of the Global Health Economic Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His work has been cited in policy documents by the African Union, the World Bank, and multiple African Ministries of Health. He co-leads AJHESP as founding Co-Editor-in-Chief.

UNICEF Centre of Excellence for Child Survival and Development· Nairobi, Kenya/New York, United States. Dr. Alex O. Adjagba is Senior Adviser and Global Lead for Health Economics and Financing at the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for Child Survival and Development, based in Nairobi, where he leads UNICEF's first dedicated cross-cutting health economics and financing section, providing technical support to all health sections and country offices globally. His research focuses on subnational health financing, immunisation economics, donor transitions, and the political economy of health financing in Africa. Before his current role, he directed the SIVAC Initiative at the Agence de Médecine Préventive in Paris, supporting the establishment of national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) in 40+ countries, and worked at PATH Geneva on malaria vaccine economic evaluation. He served as Chief of Section, Health and Nutrition at UNICEF Zimbabwe and as Senior Health Specialist at UNICEF's Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office in Nairobi. He holds a PhD from the University of the Western Cape, an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an MD from the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. He co-leads AJHESP as founding Co-Editor-in-Chief.

Dr. Djesika Amendah is a Senior Health Economist and Head of Policy Research and Country Support at the African Constituency Bureau for the Global Fund, where she leads policy analysis and strategic engagement on Global Fund financing and accountability across African constituencies. Previously, she served as a Senior Policy Analyst at Aidspan—the independent observer of the Global Fund—and as a researcher at the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi. Her research spans health economics, disease burden analysis, household health expenditure, and the political economy of global health financing in sub-Saharan Africa. She provided technical assistance to governments across the continent in developing National Health Accounts and has published on HIV economics, sickle cell disease costs, urban poverty and health expenditure, and global health governance. Her work on how international non-governmental organizations dominate grant management in West and Central Africa has directly informed Global Fund accountability debates across the continent. She holds a PhD in Economics from Georgia State University and completed post-doctoral training in health economics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A native French speaker with deep engagement across both Anglophone and Francophone African health systems, she brings essential bilingual and institutional breadth to AJHESP's editorial board.

Prof. Seye Abimbola is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. A health systems researcher from Nigeria, his work focuses on knowledge practices and epistemic justice in global health, learning and governance in health systems, and the adoption and scale-up of health system innovations. He was awarded the 2020-2022 Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University and an Australian Research Council Discovery Award for his research on dignity-based practices in health equity. He served as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Global Health from 2015 to 2024. He is the author of The Foreign Gaze (2024), an essay collection on knowledge and power in global health, and serves as an editor at PLOS Global Public Health. He has been a Radulovacki Visiting Scholar in Global Health at Northwestern University and a Thinker-in-Residence at WHO's Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. Before his academic career, he worked at Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health, grounding his scholarship in the lived realities of African health systems governance. His work on epistemic injustice — who produces knowledge, whose questions are asked, and whose priorities are served — is among the most cited in global health, with over 11,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Dr Angela Esi Apeagyei is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington, where she co-leads the Development Assistance for Health Resource Tracking team at IHME. Her research focuses on tracking development assistance for health, evaluating health financing policies in low- and middle-income countries, and projecting future health spending trajectories across sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has been published in The Lancet and The Lancet Global Health and has directly informed global policy discussions on aid contraction and the sustainability of health financing in Africa. She co-leads IHME's annual Financing Global Health report, now in its 15th year, the most comprehensive global tracking of development assistance for health. Her 2025 Lancet paper on the impact of major donor aid cuts was among the first to quantify the projected consequences for health financing in low-income countries, reaching global policy audiences at a critical juncture. She holds a PhD in Global Health Management and Policy from Tulane University and an MA in International Development Economics from Yale University. Of Ghanaian heritage and an alumna of the World Bank Africa Fellowship Program, she represents a new generation of African health financing scholars producing evidence that shapes the global agenda, which is precisely the profile AJHESP exists to amplify.

Prof. Edwine Barasa is Executive Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and Head of its Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) in Nairobi. He is also a Visiting Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oxford. His research covers health financing, equity and efficiency in healthcare, economic evaluation of interventions, health systems performance, and the governance of priority-setting in African health systems. He leads one of Africa's most productive health economics research teams, with a track record of applied research that has directly influenced health policy in Kenya, Ghana, and across the continent. He has published extensively in The Lancet, BMJ Global Health, Health Policy and Planning, and Social Science and Medicine. He holds a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Cape Town, an MSc in Health Economics from the same institution, and a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Nairobi. He serves on multiple international scientific advisory committees and mentors the next generation of African health economists through the HERU capacity strengthening programme. His research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Gates Foundation, and the UK FCDO, and has directly informed benefit package design and UHC financing reforms in Kenya and beyond.

Dr Fadima Yaya Bocoum is a senior researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS) and the director of scientific information and expertise valorisation at CNRST in Burkina Faso. She is President of the Collège Burkinabè d'Économie de la Santé (CoBES) and a member of the International Health Economics Association. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural and economic determinants of health, household health financing, health insurance design, and the cost-effectiveness of health interventions in the Sahel. She has contributed to multinational research studies spanning Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. She has provided technical assistance to Francophone West African Ministries of Health on health financing reform and service delivery. She serves on the editorial board of the Revue Science et Technique, Série Santé, and is a proofreader for several international peer-reviewed journals. Her sustained engagement across the Sahel, one of the world's most underrepresented regions in the global health economics literature, makes her a uniquely important voice in AJHESP's founding board. A native French speaker with a PhD in Public Health from the University of the Western Cape and master's degrees in health economics and health Sociology, she anchors the Francophone West African research tradition that is central to AJHESP's bilingual mandate.

Prof. Lumbwe Chola is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Health Economics and Head of the Crosscutting Theme in Health Economics at the Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo, and Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. His research focuses on economic evaluation, health technology assessment, priority-setting, and health financing, with a particular emphasis on translating economic evidence into policy in low- and middle-income country settings. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Zambia, South Africa, The Gambia, Ghana, and the West Bank, producing cost-effectiveness evidence that has directly informed benefit package design and national health policy decisions, including the inclusion of childhood cancers in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme, a tangible policy outcome he regards as among his most meaningful contributions. He is a member of Norway's Expert Committee on Global Health and serves as an international adviser on HTA institutionalisation across Africa, including in countries with limited capacity for health technology assessment. He holds a PhD in Health Economics and has published on economic evaluation, HTA transferability, NCD prevention economics, and health financing. His work bridges rigorous quantitative modelling with the institutional and fiscal realities of health systems in Southern and Eastern Africa.

Prof. Ama Pokuaa Fenny is Associate Professor and Head of the Economics Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana. Her research focuses on health financing and social protection, the cost-effectiveness of health programmes, child and adolescent health economics, and the design of health insurance systems for equitable access in low- and middle-income countries. She has provided technical expertise to Ghana's Ministries of Health and Education and to international organisations including UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, and Gavi. A West Africa Global Health Leaders Fellow at Chatham House, she has sustained research on whether social health insurance systems reach the poorest households, which has directly shaped UHC policy conversations in Ghana and across the region. She is an elected Board Director of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and has contributed to health financing strategy processes in Liberia, Eritrea, Mozambique, and The Gambia. Her research has been funded by IDRC, UNAIDS, WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and the UK FCDO, spanning work on the economics of antimicrobial resistance, adolescent health financing, and HIV expenditure tracking. She holds a PhD in Health Economics from Aarhus University and an MSc in Health, Population and Society from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Osondu Ogbuoji is Associate Research Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute and the Duke University School of Medicine, and a faculty member of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy. His research applies quantitative modelling to persistent health inequities, child mortality, donor transition, and inequitable health financing in low- and middle-income countries. A physician and health economist with a medical degree from the University of Ibadan, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and a Doctor of Science (ScD) in Global Health from Harvard University, he brings a rigorous clinical and quantitative perspective to the economics of global health financing. He serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, the Lancet Commission on Preventing Viral Spillovers, and the Lancet Commission on Global Hearing Loss. He is a member of the advisory board of the Africa CDC Health Economics Programme and the WHO Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health economics and financing workstream. His career has spanned Management Sciences for Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, Pro-Health International, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University — a breadth of institutional experience that informs his distinctively systems-level view of health financing challenges in low-income countries

Dr. Juliet Nabyonga-Orem is Health Systems and Participatory Governance Advisor at the WHO Regional Office for Africa and Associate Professor at North-West University in South Africa. A medical doctor and health economist with more than two decades of experience, she has been instrumental in transforming health systems in multiple African countries, with particular expertise in UHC, health financing, national health planning, and translating evidence into policy. She has published extensively in health systems, health financing, and health policy, and has led the analysis of landmark WHO African Region reports on health systems performance and UHC. She serves on the editorial boards of BMC Public Health, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, and Frontiers in Public Health. Her sustained work on policy dialogue — how evidence reaches decision-makers and what happens when it does not — has produced some of the most actionable research on health systems governance in the WHO African Region. She holds a PhD in Public Health from the Université Catholique de Louvain, an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York, and an MBChB from Makerere University, Uganda. She is affiliated with North-West University in South Africa as Associate Professor, extending her commitment to building African health systems research capacity beyond her policy advisory role at WHO.