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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...
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 ...
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
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
January 31, 2022
The Omicron variant has rapidly become the dominant variant of COVID-19, with many low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) observing a rapid increase in cases. In this blog we argue that protecting healthcare workers, and health systems in general, is now an even higher priority. We prop...
Blog Post
January 20, 2022
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, many sub-Saharan African countries will face serious economic crises and shrinking public spending. If countries are unable to spend more, they need to spend better. Europe has leading expertise in building institutions for priority-setting in health, making it an...
Blog Post
January 12, 2022
In November, we co-hosted an online event with USAID MTaPS and heard from experts in LMIC national regulatory authorities, donor agencies, and academia on supporting regulators and streamlining registration processes to improve the availability of quality assured medicines around the world. In this ...
Blog Post
December 20, 2021
We congratulate the FCDO on the landmark paper on Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) and offer three recommendations for implementation: 1) further clarify strategic priorities, for example by articulating a poverty focus and prioritising partnership with low-and middle-income governments; 2) p...