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aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group

aids2031 is a international consortium of partners examining the future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Costs and Financing Working Group is focused on modeling and analyzing the long-term costs and financing of the epidemic, and examining scenarios in which major policy shifts now can improve the future expenditure and financing situation.

Assessing Innovations in Global Health R&D Policy and Financing

R4D is leading the formation of an assessment center for innovative global health R&D policy and finance proposals. The focus is on proposed new ideas aimed at accelerating the development of drugs and other health technologies for neglected diseases. Visit www.healthresearchpolicy.org to learn more.

Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

CHMI is a global network of partners that systematically identifies, documents, and analyzes health market innovations, disseminates information about these models, and facilitates strategic linkages among entrepreneurs, funders, policymakers, and researchers. Visit http://healthmarketinnovations.org/ to use the interactive CHMI global knowledge platform.

Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Lower and Middle Income Countries

Results for Development Institute (R4D) recently completed a study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the challenges that Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines.

Country Assessment of the Private Health Sector in Ghana

The Ministry of Health, with support from the joint IFC/World Bank Health in Africa Initiative, launched the Country Assessment on July 20th, 2009. At present the R4D study team is conducting a large-scale review of the Ghanaian private health sector, with the ultimate goal of offering concrete, actionable recommendations on effectively harnessing the potential of private providers of health services.

Developing Indicators for the Business of Health in Africa

R4D, in partnership with RAND Corporation and Economist Intelligence Unit, is leading an indicator scoping exercise to identify a set of indicators to monitor and evaluate the role of private sector provision of health related goods and services to fulfill the needs of the World Bank's Flagship Report, The Business of Health in Africa.

Global Health Workforce Alliance

R4D serves as the secretariat for the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) Financing Task Force (FTF). Under the direction of the FTF, R4D is focusing on synthesizing empirical and programmatic evidence on HRH financing;guiding how evidence can be used in implementing financing policies;and providing Ministries of Health and Education with HRH financing and policy development tools.

Improving Stewardship of Mixed Health Systems: Lessons from the US Health System

In light of current gaps in public stewardship of private providers in developing countries, the Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for US Health Reform partners with R4D to explore lessons drawn from the US health system that can be applied to developing countries that also have complex mixed public/private health systems.

Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage

The Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage brings together countries from across the globe to share experiences and challenges in implementing health financing reforms.

Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

As a first step toward the development of an ongoing, multi-country cross-learning platform, several countries and their development partners convened a joint learning workshop in Delhi, India in February 2010. The workshop brought together practitioners from six countries to share learning around the successes and problem-solve around the challenges of implementing demand-side health financing reforms to expand health coverage.

Kazakhstan Strategic Plan 2020

Dennis de Tray of R4D served as senior advisor to the Government of Kazakhstan (GoK) in its efforts to shape the country's next 10-year development plan and achieve the President's long-term vision, Kazakhstan 2030.

New Visions for Improving Health Care in the Developing World

Despite the success of many global health programs, there is a continuing gap between policy analysis and action. This series, cosponsored by Results for Development and the Global Health Council, presents examples and opportunities of how evidence-based research can be translated into concrete actions that will improve the health of the poor in developing countries.

Review of GAVI Alliance Eligibility Policies

R4D is engaged in a major study to revise GAVI's current eligibility policy to provide countries support for their immunization programs and vaccine adoption. This study will propose new eligibility policy options and evaluate their potential impacts on GAVI's future expenditures and vaccine markets and prices.

Review of The Global Fund's Eligibility Criteria

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.

Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

The Strengthening Institutions Program, a joint program of the Global Development Network and R4D, aims to strengthen policy debates around public expenditure issues in developing countries by providing support to emerging think tanks to conduct analyses of spending in the health, education, and water sectors.

The Health Financing Task Force

The Health Financing Task Force promotes improved use of evidence, knowledge dissemination, and impartial policy dialogue on new ideas in health financing. It aims to engage public and private sector interest and catalyze action to support pro-poor health financing policies. R4D serves as the Secretariat for the Task Force.

The Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health

The Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI) brings together expertise in leadership development and specialized technical areas needed to design and successfully make and implement health sector policy. As a technical partner in MLI, R4D is providing technical assistance focused on improvements in equitable financing and donor harmonization in Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.

The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems

The Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems project sought to advance thinking on the role of the private sector into health systems and develop a broad systems perspective on how public and private sectors can work together to address the challenges of affordability, quality, and availability of care.

Transforming Health Systems Initiative (THS)

Transforming Health Systems is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that seeks to strengthen health systems by supporting global level analysis of policies that drive a global health systems agenda and country level work to implement catalytic demonstrations of health systems transformation.

Transparency & Accountability Program

Since its inception in 2006, the Transparency and Accountability Program (TAP) has strengthened the capacity of independent monitoring organizations (IMOs) in low- and middle-income countries to better hold their governments accountable and to promote improvements in social sector public spending and service delivery.

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