PAMELA STEELE ASSOCIATES Lise Cazzoli, St Anne’s College, Third Year Postgraduate, DPhil International Development, Remote working Work Projects During my internship with PSA, I worked on a variety of research projects that aimed at supporting public and private sector agencies in ensuring reliable, effective and equitable healthcare delivery in Africa. I worked on two individual projects (a blog post and a draft research paper on donor collaboration and healthcare supply chains in Africa) and one group assignment (a research paper on universal healthcare coverage in East Africa), which occupied most of my time at PSA. For this project, I worked with two other interns to write a case-study comparison of the challenges and achievements of three East African countries (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania) in expanding healthcare coverage. We were given a lot of freedom in developing the research design and conducting the empirical research, as well as to experiment with methods, country contexts or approaches we were not necessarily familiar with. Whilst the paper was a collective project, we were all responsible for our respective case study. My own contribution was to collect and analyse data related to healthcare coverage, policy and supply chains in Rwanda, as well as to develop the methodology of the research paper based on some general guidelines our internship supervisors had given us at the begining of the project. Writing a full-blown research paper (or at least a draft of it) in less than 8 weeks was a challenging task, but Jo and Andrey were very available to answer our questions and supportive regarding any
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