This portfolio area focuses on two topics that are required to improve global knowledge about what works and what does not work in global health. The first topic is how methodologies for evaluating interventions in global health can be improved; in some cases, this may include translating evaluation methodologies in common use in data-rich environments into data-poor settings. The second topic is how to create the appropriate incentives for good evaluation and use of evaluation results in the design of global health programs. The GHPRN is not itself engaged in evaluation of programs or interventions, but rather focuses on the challenge of how to get good evaluations done and used.
Sample topics:
- What are the value and limitations of random assignment methods for evaluation of both health and policy interventions?
- How can cutting-edge cost-effectiveness methods and modeling techniques be applied to questions of health intervention impact in developing countries?
- What are the incentives/disincentives for the rigorous evaluation of global health initiatives, and what instruments are available to modify those incentives?