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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...
CGD NOTES
August 20, 2024
In the pursuit of universal health coverage, countries are invariably confronted with questions about which services to pay with public funds, to whom, and at what cost. Such priority setting processes have major ramifications for the costs and benefit of care delivered. These processes are not just...
Blog Post
June 25, 2024
Today we release two new guides that can support countries through the first two critical steps in priority setting reforms: carrying out a situational analysis and then developing a national HTA framework. These are based on the last 10 years’ experience of the international Decision Support Initia...
CGD NOTES
June 17, 2024
The implementation of evidence-based medicine (EBM) relies on organizations to identify, develop, and apply evidence-based practices. While healthcare professionals often engage with service providers like hospitals and insurers for EBM implementation, they may be less familiar with organizations fo...