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Joint Learning Network gaining momentum in new phase

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24 October, 2011

The Joint Learning Network is gaining momentum in its next phase, focusing on the four technical tracks for JLN members— provider payment mechanisms (PPM), quality, information technology (IT), and expanding coverage.

Connected Expert(s): 
Alice Garabrant
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Project(s): 
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
Funder: 
Department for International Development (UK)
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation

Obstacles to New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs

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Lack of assistance has already led some Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) to fall behind in requiring children to be vaccinated from vaccine-preventable diseases. This study analyzes the challenges LMICs face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines and identifies practical interventions to address issues uncovered.

 

In 2008, both the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly and the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization noted that little had been documented concerning the obstacles faced by Lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) in adopting new vaccines. LMICs receive little external support for their vaccination programs, despite a birth cohort of nearly 80 million and the burden of disease from vaccine-preventable diseases.  The GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) assists 41 low-income countries (LIC), as well as some (31) coun

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2011
Main Contact: 
Marty Makinen
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Funder(s): 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Connected Project: 
Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Lower and Middle Income Countries
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconNew Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Final.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_English.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_French.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Spanish.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Arabic.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Russian.pdf

R4D Helps Shape Global Fund Strategy

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12 May, 2011

At its twenty-third Board meeting in May 2011, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria adopted two high-impact policy measures developed in close conjunction with Results for Development Institute (R4D).

R4D Helps Shape Global Fund Strategy

At its twenty-third Board meeting in May 2011, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria adopted two high-impact policy measures developed in close conjunction with Results for Development Institute (R4D). These included a market dynamics strategy and a package of new eligibility policies.

Connected Project(s): 
Review of The Global Fund's Eligibility Criteria

Review of The Global Fund's Eligibility Criteria

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria faces a difficult challenge as it works to adopt policies that will result in the optimal use of its financial resources in coming years. R4D is helping to analyze, review, and improve The Global Fund's country eligibility criteria.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, which has approved grants for more than US$ 21.7 billion for 600 programs in 150 countries, faces a difficult challenge today as it works to adopt policies that will result in the optimal use of its financial resources in the coming years.

Millions of people in low-and middle-income countries rely on the Global Fund for support, with their governments and NGOs looking to the Fund as a major source of financing for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria treatment and prevention programs.

Main Contact: 
Kira Thorien
Duration: 
June, 2010 - June, 2011
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Gabrielle Partridge
Helen Saxenian
Kanika Bahl
Kira Thorien
Robert Hecht
Stephen Resch
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconGlobal Fund Board Decisions_22nd Board Meeting_December 2010.pdf

Prizes for Global Health Technologies

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The Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment’s report “Prizes for Global Health Technologies” addresses how prizes may be used to spur medical innovation for neglected diseases and  drive investment in the development of drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics needed in poor countries.

Prizes have stimulated breakthroughs in areas as diverse as mathematics, agriculture, and space flight. But can prizes also spur medical innovation for neglected diseases?

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2011
R4D Author(s): 
Aarthi Rao
R4D Author(s): 
Paul Wilson
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
Funder(s): 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Connected Project: 
Assessing Innovations in Global Health R&D Policy and Financing
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconR4D-PrizesReport.pdf

Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment Launches New Report on Prizes

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28 March, 2011

A new Results for Development Institute (R4D) report, Prizes for Global Health Technologies, was released at a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) briefing.

A new R4D report, "Prizes for Global Health Technologies," was released today at a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) briefing.

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Paul Wilson
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
Assessing Innovations in Global Health R&D Policy and Financing
Connected Publications & Resources: 
Prizes for Global Health Technologies
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconR4D-PrizesReport.pdf

New York Times Article Highlights R4D’s Work on Prizes

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4 February, 2011

Recent success in the largest prize competition for medical research in history drew the attention of the New York Times which included comments by Results for Development Institute (R4D) senior consultant Dr. Paul Wilson.

Recent success in the largest prize competition for medical research in history drew the attention of the New York Times which included comments by Results for Development Institute (R4D) senior consultant Dr. Paul Wilson.

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Paul Wilson
Connected Project(s): 
Assessing Innovations in Global Health R&D Policy and Financing
Connected Publications & Resources: 
Innovative Financing for Global Health: Tools for Analyzing the Options
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Center for Global Health R&D Policy hosts “Dialogue with Global Health Funders”

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13 December, 2010

On December 9th R4D’s Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment, hosted a “Dialogue with Funders” to disseminate initial findings from a series of recently released draft assessments. 

Connected Expert(s): 
Paul Wilson
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht
Connected Project(s): 
Assessing Innovations in Global Health R&D Policy and Financing
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Americas Quarterly’s Summer Issue Launch Showcases Article by R4D’s Donika Dimovska

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26 October, 2010

On October 28, the policy journal Americas Quarterly will hold a launch event for their summer 2010 issue in Miami, Florida, which features the article Filling the Gap authored by R4D Program Officer Donika Dimovska.

Connected Expert(s): 
Donika Dimovska
Connected Project(s): 
Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)
Connected Project(s): 
Transforming Health Systems Initiative (THS)
Filling the Gap- Americas Quarterly

R4D’s SME initiative receives early entry prize by Ashoka Changemakers as part of G-20 SME Finance Challenge

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19 August, 2010

A small and medium enterprise development initiative sponsored by the Results for Development Institute (R4D) has won the early entry prize by Ashoka Changemakers as part of the G-20 SME Finance Challenge. The project, conceived by R4D Senior Fellow David Stevens and called “The Local Currency Guaranteed Development Bond SME Loan Program” was honored from among 86 early entrants to the competition, which is open to additional entrants through September 5, 2010.

View the project web video below:

Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
David Stevens
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