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Blog Post
January 09, 2025
Just over a year ago, the Future of Global Health Initiatives process concluded with the publication of the Lusaka Agenda, which recognized that the current global health financing architecture needs to change. It emphasized the need for donor funds to align and use government systems, and to drive ...
Blog Post
December 03, 2024
Developing economies do not allocate sufficient domestic resources to health, and a cumbersome donor architecture undermines external financing. A multipronged approach that prioritizes strengthening country health systems and integrates global initiatives into national strategies could have a lasti...
CGD NOTES
November 12, 2024
In recent decades, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have turned to health technology assessment (HTA) to prioritize health care interventions in pursuit of universal health coverage. HTA has demonstrated its value through significant cost savings, as demonstrated by Thailand and Brazil, whe...
Blog Post
October 29, 2024
On the 14th October, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) released its third report (CIH 3.0). In this blog, we argue the reports’ approach to setting priorities globally and by burden of disease, combined with historically determined and (perhaps) politically negotiated modular healt...
Blog Post
September 30, 2024
Advancing sustainable yet impactful health systems must keep domestic, public spending on health as the bull’s eye of global health success. But letting a thousand flowers bloom with many agencies’ different policies may be yet another example of donors getting in the way. In the spirit of the Lusak...
POLICY PAPERS
September 30, 2024
Conditioned domestic financing policy, referring to the domestic financing of health projects, programs, and national responses conditioned by global health funding agencies and recipient country governments, is one mechanism to promote sustainability and country ownership. We aim to understand how ...
POLICY PAPERS
September 06, 2024
Launched in December 2023, the Lusaka Agenda laid out a set of shifts and actions to strengthen financing for universal health coverage (UHC). A process for establishing mutual accountability for delivery is ongoing, including within the African Union, but metrics for assessing progress have not yet...
Blog Post
September 06, 2024
Financial support for health in low- and middle-income countries has come under renewed criticism in recent years by policymakers and experts, critiquing that it often fragments health systems, undermines national priority-setting, and lacks a clear exit strategy. The most recent effort to address t...
Blog Post
August 26, 2024
Our study analyzes data from the OECD Creditor Reporting System between 2019 and 2021, cross-referencing it with a list of 218 highly cost-effective interventions identified by the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCP3). On one hand, 61 percent of health aid projects appeared to include at least ...
WORKING PAPERS
August 26, 2024
One approach to development assistance for health, or health aid, emphasizes the ex ante selection of cost-effective health interventions, an approach that began with the World Development Report (1993) on Investing in Health and has since been adopted by the Effective Altruism community. But just h...