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POLICY PAPERS
May 08, 2023
Countries moving towards universal health coverage are challenged about what new health benefits and interventions they will add to their national health programs. We propose a new framework organized in three layers that outlines the features or characteristics to consider when designing and buildi...
POLICY PAPERS
March 10, 2023
Rigorous, explicit, evidence-informed priority-setting (EIPS) in healthcare is an essential instrument for achieving value for money. Growing pressures on healthcare budgets, combined with the post-COVID-19 fiscal crises and plateauing development assistance for health, make institutionalising EIPS ...
POLICY PAPERS
February 27, 2023
Health aid has helped domestic financing achieve historic gains in global health but there is much still to be done. Six major issues prevent aid from being more effective, fit for the future, and aligned with country priorities: funding volatility, aid fragmentation, the displacement of domestic fi...
POLICY PAPERS
November 28, 2022
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic—in the US and around the world—highlights the potential feasibility and importance of biomedical R&D for global health and welfare. Drawing from this experience and momentum, this paper argues that the US should deepen its engagement and ambition in global hea...
POLICY PAPERS
November 15, 2022
Antimicrobial drugs form the backbone of modern medicine. Yet over time, use of these drugs selects for mutations that survive exposure to those same drugs, driving “antimicrobial resistance,” or AMR. In the absence of sufficient R&D investment for new antimicrobials, deaths from drug-resistant infe...
POLICY PAPERS
November 10, 2022
Laboratories are fundamental components of health systems, but investments in strengthening laboratory systems are often inconsistent and inadequate in African countries. This paper qualitatively establishes the complex costs and benefits of strengthening laboratory capacity and systems within and a...
POLICY PAPERS
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 ...
