Justice Nonvignon is a Health Economist and public health researcher with extensive experience in teaching and mentoring students. His main areas of research experience include health financing, economic and impact evaluation of population, health and nutrition programmes and health financing. His research work spans multiple countries in Africa.
Justice currently serves as the Acting Head of the Health Economics Programme (HEP) at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), a specialized technical agency of the African Union headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Justice is also Professor of Health Economics at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana where he has worked since 2009. He 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 has consulted for major global health players including WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and others. He has served on over 35 expert committees, including Member of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential (STAG-IH), Member of 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 recently ended a three-year term as 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 was a founding member of the African Health Economics and Policy Association, and has served in the scientific committee of the International Health Economics Association’s biennial World Congress on Health Economics since 2013. He is an Alumnus of University of Ghana (PhD Public Health), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (MSc Economics) and University of Cape Coast, Ghana (BA Hons Economics).
He is also an Alumnus of African Economic Research Consortium’s Collaborative Master of Arts Programme.
He is a past postdoctoral fellow at African Population and Health Research Centre, visiting scholar at Duke Global Health Institute, Coimbra scholar at Aarhus University, Denmark and Adjunct Faculty at Public Health Foundation of India and Strathclyde Business School, Scotland. Justice has more than 80 peer reviewed articles aside book chapters.
