As a publicly accessible global knowledge platform consisting of a network of partners that collect, analyze, and disseminate information about Health Market Innovations in developing countries, the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) website facilitates the exchange of knowledge and the creation of strategic linkages among key stakeholders.

On Friday, the 63rd World Health Assembly passed a resolution called, “Strengthening the capacity of governments to constructively engage the private sector in providing essential health-care services,” spearheaded by the delegation from Thailand.

As part of our ongoing initiative to launch a Joint Learning Network on Universal Health Coverage, R4D hosted Anil Swarup, the Director General for Labour Welfare and the Joint Secretary of India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment, to speak about India’s advance toward universal health coverage through the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) scheme. Representatives from the World Bank, IFC, PAHO, US State Department, Center for Global Development, and the USAID Health Systems 20/20 project attended the session, among others.

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RSBY Case Study.pdf

In the next installment of the on-going series, “New Visions for Improving Health Care in the Developing World,” Results for Development (R4D) and the Global Health Council (GHC) will consider the advantages and pitfalls of the private sector’s involvement in healthcare. Health systems require strong public and private actors, and this session will consider how policy makers can incentivize private sector actors to help meet national health system goals.

An initiative co-sponsored by the Results for Development Institute (R4D) and the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) has won top honors at the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development, a competition hosted by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank.

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Affinity MacroFinance 2016_The Year In Review.pdf

Key national stakeholders gathered in Accra, Ghana December 14th-16th for a three-day Engagement Workshop focusing on the role of private health care providers and ways in which they can contribute more to improving the health of all Ghanaians, especially the poor.

The workshop, coordinated by the R4D assessment team led by Stephanie Sealy and Marty Makinen, brought together leaders from across the country to present data, identify gaps, and begin formulating recommendations for policy changes.

Through the launch of its Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), R4D will collaborate with a network of in-country partners to identify and evaluate innovative programs that improve the quality and affordability of private health care in the developing world.

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CHMI Press Release.pdf

On October 26, 2009 Mark McClellan of the Engelberg Center for Health Reform and David de Ferranti of the Results for Development Institute (R4D) co-chaired a joint workshop at the Brookings Institution to examine how the US health system experience can inform mixed health system stewardship practices abroad.