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Celebrating Ten Years of the international Decision Support Initiative
With limited budgets, how can countries provide the best health care for the most people? The international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) is a global network of experts, founded in 2013, to help countries set their own priorities for health spending. Ten years on, CGD, secretariat of iDSI, celebrates the successes of the network, by highlighting some of its most impactful work, below.

Hear from Our Partners Around the World

Our partners from the World Health Organization, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and ministries of health in India and Rwanda share some of their success stories.

Learning from 10 Years of iDSI

Over the last decade, iDSI has partnered with countries to develop evidence-informed priority-setting institutions and processes. Read our blog for a summary of key successes, challenges, and lessons for current and future practitioners.

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Spotlight on India

Below we highlight iDSI’s success in building priority-setting systems in India, as featured in a special issue of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. You can read the editorial introducing the special issue online.

Health Technology Assessment in India in the Next Decade

Adrian Gheorghe et al.

Forming a Health Technology Assessment Organisation in India

Victoria Fan et al.

Evaluating Healthcare Priorities with the iProSE Scale

Adrian Gheorghe et al.

Cost-effectiveness of Haemophilia Treatment in India

Sitanshu Sekhar Kar et al.

A Competency Framework for Health Technology Assessment

Simon Dixon et al.

Adaptive Health Technology Assessment for Cancer Interventions

Srobana Ghosh et al.

Organisational Formation for Priority Setting

Victoria Fan et al.

Prioritisation of Candidates for Health Technology Assessment

Malkeet Singh et al.

iDSI's Global & Regional Impact

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    Pete Baker et al.
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  • Reimagining Global Health Financing
    Tom Drake et al.
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  • The JLN Health Benefits Package Revision Guide
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  • Cost-Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ethiopia
    Lydia Regan et al.
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  • Africa CDC’s Health Economics Unit: More Important than Ever
    Justice Nonvignon et al.
    Never before has the health of the population been so front-of-mind for so many people. African countries continue to face multipl...
  • The Potential of Adaptive Health Technology Assessments
    Cassandra Nemzoff et al.
    Health budgets are limited and decision makers in all countries face very challenging decisions about which health interventions w...
  • The COVID-19 Multi-model Comparison Collaboration Releases Ots First Two Outputs
    Kalipso Chalkidou et al.
    Since April 2020, a group of national governments, funders, and development partners supporting COVID-19 responses in low- and mid...
  • Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage
    Amanda Glassman et al.
    What's In, What's Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage argues that the creation of an explicit health benefits pl...
  • Building Institutions for Smarter Public Spending
    Amanda Glassman et al.
    Decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost often result from ad hoc, nontransparent...

10-Year Celebration Events

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Setting Priorities and Optimizing Resources in Africa
With the post-COVID fiscal crisis restricting health budgets around the world, governments must make difficult decisions of what health services and products are provided, to whom,...
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  • Setting Priorities and Optimizing Resources in Africa
    With the post-COVID fiscal crisis restricting health budgets around the world, governments must make difficult decisions of what h...