Justice Nonvignon Justice Nonvignon is Technical Director of Health Economics and Financing at Management Sciences for Health. He is also Professor of Health Economics at University of Ghana School of Public Health. Previously, he served as foundation Head of the Health Economics and Financing Division 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 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 health technology assessments and health economics evidence to strengthen public health programs, including in dozens of countries in Africa. He served for many years as Chair of the Technical Working Group at the Ghana Ministry of Health’s HTA Secretariat where he oversaw many important tasks. At Africa CDC, he led the development of the continent’s first framework for evidence-informed priority setting that produced guidance on institutionalizing EIPS, HTA on the continent. He has also contributed to supporting HTA work in many African countries and frequently speaks on global platforms on global health and health financing transitions.
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, including 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. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Global Health at Duke University, USA, Honorary Research Professor at Strathclyde University, UK, Adjunct Faculty at Public Health Foundation of India, and previously Adjunct Faculty at New York University’s College of Global Public Health. Justice has published over 120 peer review articles, and commentaries in the areas of health economics, financing, policy, monitoring and evaluation.