In this blog, we briefly describe India’s cost repository and how it caters to the needs of policymakers and researchers. We share examples of health system applications of the cost database and their policy implications, demonstrating the value brought about by this initiative. Finally, we conclude...

Improvements in priority setting can help India ensure that limited budgets have the maximum health impact. India has taken major strides towards improving EIPS, with HTAIn a successful component that has already demonstrated a good ROI. But the system has not yet reached its full potential.

The iDSI Progression Scale for EIPS (iProSE) scale gives countries an easy-to-use self-assessment tool to track their progress and plan improvements for priority setting so they can get more health for their money. Today, we release a policy paper, a how-to guide, and data collection tool detailing...

Global health financing is due for a reckoning. Deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, alongside consequences of the war in Ukraine, and economic scars left by the COVID-19 pandemic have left many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with low or negative growth, increasing debt and highly uncer...

On Sunday February 19th, the 36th Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union elected Dr Jean Kaseya, a public health physician from the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the new Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Dr Kaseya will ...

Today, we publicly launch an independent assessment which offers an overview of the global lead poisoning crisis; takes stock of current initiatives within G7 partners and international organisations to reduce lead poisoning globally; and identifies promising opportunities to make a difference. Here...

The new year has hardly begun, but fears of a looming recession persist. Pandemic-era increases in health spending are unlikely to continue in low- and middle-income countries. Growing fiscal pressures­—such as high debt, increasing interest rates, and declining foreign aid and revenues—bode ominous...