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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 ...
Blog Post
March 10, 2023
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...
Blog Post
March 10, 2023
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.
Blog Post
March 10, 2023
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...
Blog Post
February 23, 2023
How can we ensure that medical countermeasures—such as diagnostics and vaccines—are ready to go at local, national, and global levels when the next pandemic emerges? Amanda Glassman speaks with Dr. Amadou Alpha Sall of Institut Pasteur of Dakar and Dr. Rachel Glennerster of the University of Chicago...
Blog Post
December 13, 2022
Low- and middle-income countries are increasingly interested in separating purchasers from providers of health care services, and engaging private sector providers to increase efficiency and healthcare coverage for the poor and vulnerable as part of Universal Health Coverage strategies. But a recent...
Blog Post
October 13, 2022
On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Dr. Ayoade Alakija, the World Health Organization’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and co-chair of the African Union’s African Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins Javier Guzman to discuss global cooperation during health emergencies...
Blog Post
September 15, 2022
Countries in Latin America were hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Amanda Glassman welcomes Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr., candidate for Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to the podcast to discuss impacts and lessons learned. Tog...