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R4D and health innovation in India

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30 January, 2012

The New Yorker published a letter to the editor from R4D Managing Directors Rob Hecht and Gina Lagomarsino, and R4D's Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment  recently embarked on a new venture exploring the potential of innovation for global health in India.

Global health innovation in India is attracting more and more attention in 2012, and R4D has much to offer for discussion on the topic.

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Jean Arkedis
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

R4D launches UHC Forward

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17 January, 2012

In response to a growing movement toward Universal Health Coverage, Results for Development Institute (R4D) has launched UHC Forward— a new online hub that consolidates news, events, and publications related to the global universal health coverage.

New online hub to support growing global movement toward universal health coverage.

The movement toward universal health coverage (UHC) has attracted a growing global community of policymakers, practitioners, researchers and other international development partners in low- and middle-income countries.

Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Nkem Wellington
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation

R4D on Huffington Post: Recent lessons from capacity building

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26 December, 2011

In the Huffington Post, R4D President David de Ferranti and Senior Program Associate Aarthi Rao co-authored a blog post on lessons learned for successful capacity building in global development.

Written on the heels of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, the article draws on lessons learned from three R4D programs: the Transparency and Accountability Program, Joint Learning Network, and Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health.

Connected Expert(s): 
Aarthi Rao
Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti

CHMI Highlights 2011 featured on Conversations On Health Care

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23 December, 2011

Conversations on Health Care interviewed R4D Managing Director Gina Lagomarsino for the “Tech Report” on their weekly public radio show broadcasted on NPR member stations in the New England region, featuring the Center for Health Market Innovations’ recently released Highlights 2011 report.

Also appearing on the program was Gail Wilensky, economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE.

Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Project(s): 
Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation

Designing Development Programs to Build Capacity: Emerging Experience from the Results for Development Institute

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 A country’s capacity to effectively implement policies and programs has long been recognized as crucial for its progress. This paper discusses shared program design elements for capacity building across R4D's portfolio that have shown promise so far and have been well received by the beneficiary countries and groups

A country’s capacity to effectively implement policies and programs has long been recognized as crucial for its progress. Inadequate capacity—for example, deficiencies in institutions and in the skills of their personnel—has left a long trail of disappointed expectations for faster reduction of poverty. Building stronger capacity has thus become a prominent priority in international development, as evidenced in such initiatives as the Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2011
Main Contact: 
Aarthi Rao
R4D Author(s): 
Aarthi Rao
R4D Author(s): 
Amanda Folsom
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconDesigning Development Programs to Build Capacity.pdf

On heels of mHealth Summit, CHMI hosts roundtable discussion

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12 December, 2011

The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) hosted an informal panel discussion on “Mobile Health and Measuring What Works,” on Thursday, December 8, at R4D’s offices in Washington, D.C.

Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Maria Belenky
Connected Expert(s): 
Rose Reis
Connected Expert(s): 
Trevor Lewis
Connected Project(s): 
Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation

The Economic Returns to Investment in AIDS Treatment in Low and Middle Income Countries

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"The Economic Returns to Investment in AIDS Treatment in Low and Middle Income Countries," is one of the first efforts to look systematically at the expected economic benefits (returns) to large scale investment in AIDS treatment.

Despite the remarkable scale-up of AIDS treatment and prevention programs in low and middle income countries in recent years, each year two million people die from AIDS (most without ever having received antiretrovirals ART) and 2.7 million are newly infected by HIV.

Published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) One, "The Economic Returns to Investment in AIDS Treatment in Low and Middle Income Countries," is one of the first efforts to look systematically at the expected economic benefits (returns) to large scale investment in AIDS treatment.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Journal Articles
R4D Author(s): 
Kira Thorien
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
Stephen Resch
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconR4D PLoS ONE Final Manuscript 10.5.11.pdf

R4D providing leading voices on international support for Education

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9 December, 2011

In Salzburg, Austria, R4D Education Experts made several presentations for the Salzburg Global Seminar’s session on “Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide.”

Connected Expert(s): 
Birger Fredriksen
Connected Expert(s): 
Nicholas Burnett
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconBurnettJayaram_SalzburgGlobalSeminar.pdf
application/pdf iconRitzenSalzburgPaper.pdf
application/pdf iconFredriksenSalzburgPaper.pdf

The Center for Health Market Innovations releases Highlights 2011

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29 November, 2011

CHMI released its first year report, highlighting key observations about innovative, market-based health programs based on CHMI’s initial phase of operation, during which R4D and the CHMI partner network gathered and vetted over 1,000 promising health market innovations in more than 100 countries.

The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) released its first year report, highlighting key observations about innovative, market-based health programs based on CHMI’s initial phase of operation. Download the full report here.

Recent progress includes:

Connected Expert(s): 
Donika Dimovska
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Maria Belenky
Connected Expert(s): 
Rose Reis
Connected Expert(s): 
Trevor Lewis
Connected Project(s): 
Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconCHMI-report-112711-high-links.pdf

R4D signs on to the Dar Declaration on Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation

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29 November, 2011

R4D Program Officer Caroline Poirrier represented R4D at the First Global Assembly for Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where R4D became a founding signee to the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation.

The event brought together nearly 100 civil society groups from 56 countries and 12 international organizations working on public finance and budget accountability issues to launch a global effort to make public budgets transparent, participatory, and accountable.

Connected Expert(s): 
Caroline Poirrier
Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Heck
Connected Expert(s): 
Courtney Tolmie
Connected Project(s): 
Transparency & Accountability Program
Funder: 
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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