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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.

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.  

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.

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.

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 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. 

News & Events

R4D and health innovation 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.

R4D launches UHC Forward

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.

R4D on Huffington Post: Recent lessons from capacity building

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.

Careers and Opportunities

Research Fellow – Global Health R&D Policy
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