Jun

17

2014

1:00—2:30 PM
Center for Global Development
2055 L St NW
- Fifth Floor
Washington, DC 20036
CGD TALKS

Improving the Use of Economic Evaluation for Global Health Funders

Featuring
Thomas Wilkinson
Adviser in Health Economics, NICE International

With Discussant
Mead Over
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Moderated by
Amanda Glassman
Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

A health policy decision is only as good as the information available to the decision maker. As countries strive to achieve Universal Health Coverage and funding from local governments and global donors is scrutinized, there is an acute need for more and better economic evaluation to inform government and donor investments in healthcare. To that end, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest funders of health economic evaluation in LMIC settings, has partnered with an international collaboration of experts to develop the Gates Reference Case – a principle-based standardised methodology for good practice in the planning, implementation, and reporting of economic evaluation for informing priority setting in health. This session will introduce the principles of the Gates Reference Case, explain how and why the reference case was developed, and what this might mean for the conduct and use of economic evaluation and decision-making in LMIC.

The Gates-RC is an element of the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), a platform supported by the UK’s Department for International Development, BMGF, and the Rockefeller Foundation, for engaging with and responding to the growing demand for evidence-informed decision-making processes. iDSI involves a partnership between an increasing number of institutions around the world, including NICE international and the Center for Global Development.

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