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Blog Post
October 24, 2022
Low- and middle-income countries face severe health budget constraints while also dealing with complex and evolving disease burdens. Ministries of health need cost information to allocate resources efficiently. We've developed a step-by-step guide to a method known as “time-driven activity-based cos...
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October 24, 2022
Cost information is essential for priority setting and optimized resource allocation in the healthcare sector, especially in low- and middle-income countries where resource constraints and opportunity costs are significant. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) has gained prominence as a means ...
Blog Post
September 14, 2022
While HTA systems in different countries are influenced by differences in local culture, history, politics and healthcare financing mechanisms, there are key elements common across countries that determine the success of an HTA system. To discuss these tried and tested global practices, the governme...
Blog Post
August 25, 2022
On this episode of Pandemic Proof from CGD, Dr. Boghuma Titanji, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, joins Javier Guzman to reflect on the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and response. Together they discuss the parallels between monkeypox and previous infectious di...
Blog Post
May 16, 2022
You’ve seen the headline; indeed, you’ve probably seen it from us. According to widely cited estimates, about one in three children around the world are lead-poisoned, or about 800 million total. This means that they have blood-lead levels exceeding 5 micrograms per deciliter, a common reference lev...
Blog Post
April 06, 2022
World Health Day 2022 is centered on “our planet, our health,” invoking the interconnected importance of pandemic risks, pollution, climate change, and shifting disease burdens. We are using this moment to shine a light on innovative solutions for many of the world’s most pressing global health prob...
Blog Post
February 16, 2022
One of the most prestigious HTA agencies is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England, which has gained its reputation through highly vetted, transparent, and robust processes and recommendations. For LMICs that don’t have the capacity and/or the expertise to generate t...
Blog Post
February 02, 2022
Remember when you first heard about the lead-water crisis in Flint, Michigan? Remember your outrage that America’s most vulnerable children were exposed to a dangerous, debilitating poison? Remember your disbelief that policymakers could allow this to happen, or other Americans could look away from ...