Global Health Policy Research Network Update (June 2009)
IN THIS ISSUE
COMING SOON
ALSO OF INTEREST
IN THIS ISSUE
Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls, Book Launch June 16th
Authors Rena Eichler, Ruth Levine and the Working Group on Performance-Based Incentives take a close look at pioneering experiences with supply- and demand-side incentives in health care. In a launch event at CGD yesterday, the authors presented ways in which performance incentives can be used as part of a broad strategy for health system strengthening -- as well as mistakes to avoid in design and implementation. The event also featured remarks from Tore Godal, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway and a panel of development experts, and was moderated by Lawrence MacDonald, CDG Vice President for Communications and Policy Outreach.
Projecting Future Budgetary Costs of AIDS Treatment (manual, software package, and dataset now available)
Have you ever wondered how sensitive projections of AIDS treatment costs are to assumptions about the rate of program scale-up, success of treatment, the decision to fully fund second-line therapy, or other policy levers? Senior Fellow Mead Over and Research Assistant Owen McCarthy created a user-friendly package of computer programs called AIDSCost that can be used along with accompanying cross-country baseline data to compute these cost projections. Users only need access to the statistical software platform Stata and the AIDSCost program manual to run the software package, which operates using drop-down menus. AIDSCost is being made public in the hope that many people will experiment with the program and produce their own analyses of future costs under a variety of different scenarios. Experienced users of Stata can also adapt the AIDSCost package themselves. For more information, see Mead’s blog about the software program. He and Owen invite your questions and comments on the tool.
Introducing the PopPov Research Network
Following the recommendations of CGD’s Population and Development Working Group in 2005, the Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, and four European donors are supporting cutting edge research on the relationships between population issues and economic development. CGD and research partners have now established the PopPov Research Network to link scholars working on these “pop/pov” links. The objective is to establish a more robust evidence base for the development of population polices around the globe. Deputy Director for Global Health Rachel Nugent serves as the focal point for the network, making the needed connections between the research findings and the policy need for evidence. Check out the website for information on funding opportunities and events, and join the network to share your own related work with others working in the field.
HIV/AIDS Monitor’s New Impact-tracking Flash Tool
CGD’S HIV/AIDS Monitor team has released a new web tool for tracking the impact of the Monitor’s recommendations. The tool provides an easy way to see whether and how the three big AIDS donors have improved the design, delivery, and management of aid for HIV/AIDS in line with CGD policy recommendations. The tool is a work in progress and will be continuously updated as changes take place. Please try it out and tell us what you think!
How Will the Financial Crisis Affect Aid to the Health Sector?
Last October, when the full extent of the economic crisis began to be realized, Research Fellow David Roodman blogged about what happens to overall aid flows after a recession, based on historical trends. But what about aid to specific sectors like health, education, debt relief, and infrastructure? To answer this question, Mead Over has done additional analysis, with very interesting results! To find out how the health sector fares, and which sectors are most sensitive to global financial swings, both up and down, read Mead’s blog.
COMING SOON
The Human Footprint on Climate, Lecture with CGD Senior Fellow David Wheeler June 23rd
The next lecture in the CGD series Demographics and Development in the 21st Century is The Human Footprint on Climate, featuring Senior Fellow David Wheeler and moderated by Rachel Nugent. Wheeler’s research examines the cost-effectiveness of family planning and girls’ education interventions as part of a set of policies that support reduction in carbon emissions. Comments will be offered by Tim Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. Please register and join us at 1800 Massachusetts Avenue from 4-5:30pm on June 23rd.
HIV/AIDS Monitor: Moving Beyond Gender as Usual, Report Launch July 1st
The HIV/AIDS Monitor team will release its latest publication Moving beyond gender as usual: How the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country AIDS Program are addressing women’s vulnerabilities in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia on July 1, 2009 at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington. The full announcement and registration link will be posted on our website in the coming weeks.
Drug Resistance Working Group to Release Consultation Draft Report
CGD’s Drug Resistance Working Group (DRWG) will release a Consultation Draft Report this summer with recommended actions for global health leaders to reduce the emergence and transmission of drug resistance around the world. Visit the DRWG page on the CGD website; and stay tuned for the draft report with instructions on how to provide feedback to us.
ALSO OF INTEREST
In the Media:
Recent Events:
- 05/21/09, Washington, DC Ruth Levine participated in a live, webcasted panel discussing the Institute of Medicine’s final report, “The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors” at the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Washington studio.
- 04/20/09, Washington, DC Nandini Oomman, Mead Over and Ruth Levine participated in a CGD seminar with Alan Whiteside on “Why HIV/AIDS Is Still Exceptional”
- 04/20/09, Washington, DC Mead Over participated in a panel “AIDS: Is it a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence” at the World Bank
- 04/7/2009, Washington, DC Rachel Nugent moderated a CGD event with Steve Sinding and Shareen Joshi entitled “Population, Poverty and Economic Development”
- 04/2/09, Washington, DC Ruth Levine briefed congressional members and staff on “The Global Health Landscape in 2009-2010” at the Rayburn House Office Building.
- 03/17/09, Washington, DC Ruth Levine spoke on “Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Global Health Policy Blog:
- Vaccine AMC (Really) Launched Today, Ruth Levine
- How Will the Financial Crisis Affect Aid to the Health Sector, Mead Over
- An Underwhelming Hearing for an Overdue Appointment, David Wendt
- Chronic Diseases Posing a Greater Global Risk than a Fiscal Crisis?, Rachel Nugent
- Projecting the Future Budgetary Costs of AIDS Treatment (Manual, Software Package and Data Set), Mead Over
- Questions for Dr. Goosby: How Can You Make PEPFAR Even Better?, Nandini Oomman
- PEPFAR Partnership Frameworks: Baby Steps for the Long Walk Ahead, Nandini Oomman
- Will We Soon Have an Effective Vaccine Against HIV? Not Until We Can Make a Superman or a Bionic Woman, Mead Over
- NGOs Try Power in Numbers Approach in Call to Action Against Diarrheal Disease, Scott Kniaz
- Institute of Medicine Releases Report on U.S. Commitment to Global Health, Ruth Levine
- Research to Action: HIV/AIDS Monitor’s New Web Tool, Christina Droggitis
- Bring on the Chutzpah at CDC!, Rachel Nugent
- The IMF and the Swine Flu: Who’s on First!, Mead Over and David Goldsbrough
- The Post’s Criticism of PEPFAR Is No Better Founded Than its Praise, Mead Over
- Preparation for a Flu Epidemic Requires Collective Action on Surveillance; Or, Three More Things I Wish I’d Said on the CBS Nightly News Last Friday, Mead Over
- In the Halls of CGD, on the WHO…, Rachel Nugent, Mead Over, April Harding, Danielle Kuczynski and Andrea Feigl
- The Potential Economic Impact of Pandemic Flu on Poor Countries: More Serious than a Sneezing Pork Chop, Mead Over
- Waiting for Goosby: PEPFAR’s Chance to Shine, Nandini Oomman
- PEPFAR Might Be Saving Millions of Lives But We Don’t Have Evidence Yet, Mead Over
- What Will Happen to Specialized Health Agencies with a Major U.S. Foreign Assistance Reform, Ruth Levine
- Double Bonus: Novartis Antimalarial Coartem Receives both FDA Approval and First Priority Review Voucher in History, Scott Kniaz
- China-Gates Foundation Program to Tackle TB, Rachel Nugent
- The Future of UNAIDS: Leave Your Comments on Recommendations of New Report, Danielle Kuczynski
- First Ladies Meeting in Strasbourg: More than a Fashion Face-Off, Nandini Oomman
- Global Health (Virtual) Infrastructure: Shovel Ready!, Ruth Levine
- Belt-Tightening at the Global Fund…How About Making it Performance-Based?, Steve Rosenszweig
- Health System Strengthening: Whither the World Bank, April Harding and Ruth Levine
- Grab that Bull by its Horns: HIV/AIDS in the Capital of the Richest Country in the World, Nandini Oomman
- The Acronym Party: GAVI’s New Call for Nominations for IAC Members for the AMC Secretariat, Scott Kniaz
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