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Innovative Financing for Global Health R&D

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R4D is identifying innovative approaches to financing global health R&D that reduce barriers and risk in the development of new health technologies. New and improved products are needed to reduce the burden of disease, but creating these products requires difficult long-term scientific efforts, with uncertain return on investment.

New and improved vaccines and drugs are urgently needed to reduce the burden of suffering and loss from diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in developing countries. But creating these new health products requires extremely difficult long-term scientific efforts, and the markets for these kinds of life-saving vaccines and drugs are both uncertain and may not be very lucrative. Because of these barriers and risks, many scientific organizations and biopharmaceutical companies shy away from investing in these areas.

Main Contact: 
Robert Hecht
Duration: 
April, 2008 - December, 2012
Funder: 
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Aarthi Rao
Amrita Palriwala
Robert Hecht
Kimberly Manno Reott

R4D hosts Taiwan health system expert Tsung-Mei Cheng

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28 February, 2010

As part of our ongoing initiative to establish a Joint Learning Network on Universal Health Coverage, R4D hosted Dr. Tsung-Mei Cheng of Princeton University for a seminar on Taiwan’s national health insurance system, which was set up in the 1990s.

Connected Expert(s): 
Brian Latko
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Sapna Singh Kundra
Connected Project(s): 
Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation

R4D’s Affinity MacroFinance receives top honors at international finance competition

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8 March, 2010

An initiative co-sponsored by the Results for Development Institute (R4D) and the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) has won top honors at the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development, a competition hosted by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank.

Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
David Stevens
Funder: 
Agence Française de Développement
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The World Bank
Attached File(s): 
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Affinity MacroFinance 2016_The Year In Review.pdf

Critical Choices In Financing: The Response To The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic

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This paper examines potential long-term costs and financing options for the global AIDS response under four different scenarios and provides policy recommendations based on projected epidemiological and financial impacts.

This paper was published as part of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs, a special issue focusing on the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The paper presents the findings of the aids2031 Costs and Financing Working Group, and addresses the following key questions: 

Publication & Resource Type: 
Journal Articles
Year Published: 
2009
Main Contact: 
Robert Hecht
R4D Author(s): 
Farzana Muhib
R4D Author(s): 
Robert Hecht
Author(s): 
Robert Hecht, Lori Bollinger, John Stover, William McGreevey, Farzana Muhib, Callisto Emas Madavo and David de Ferranti
Connected Project: 
aids2031: Costs and Financing Working Group
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Critical Choices In Financing

Joint Learning Workshop brings together six countries to discuss universal health coverage

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8 February, 2010

On February 3-5, R4D and its partners convened delegations from six countries – Ghana, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam - for a Joint Learning Workshop on Universal Health Coverage in Gurgaon, India. The three day workshop served as a forum for participants to share their experiences implementing health reforms and learn from other countries.

Connected Expert(s): 
Alice Garabrant
Connected Expert(s): 
Brian Latko
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Maria Belenky
Connected Expert(s): 
Sapna Singh Kundra
Connected Project(s): 
Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage

Call for Abstracts for the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage, Montreux, Switzerland, November 16-19, 2010

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18 February, 2010

This WHO-hosted symposium aims at improving the scientific evidence needed by health policy-makers and practitioners to inform their decisions related to accelerating universal health coverage. On November 16th-19th, 2010 researchers, policy-makers, funders, and other stakeholders will gather in Montreux to share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that reflects the needs of low and middle-income countries.

Connected Expert(s): 
David de Ferranti
Connected Expert(s): 
Robert Hecht

Ghanaian leadership convenes in Accra for second Private Health Sector Engagement Workshop

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14 December, 2009

Key national stakeholders gathered in Accra, Ghana December 14th-16th for a three-day Engagement Workshop focusing on the role of private health care providers and ways in which they can contribute more to improving the health of all Ghanaians, especially the poor.

The workshop, coordinated by the R4D assessment team led by Stephanie Sealy and Marty Makinen, brought together leaders from across the country to present data, identify gaps, and begin formulating recommendations for policy changes.

Connected Expert(s): 
Kira Thorien
Connected Expert(s): 
Marty Makinen
Connected Expert(s): 
Stephanie Sealy
Connected Project(s): 
Country Assessment of the Private Health Sector in Ghana
Funder: 
The World Bank

R4D receives joint Gates-Rockefeller grant to identify innovative private health initiatives in the developing world

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3 August, 2009

Through the launch of its Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), R4D will collaborate with a network of in-country partners to identify and evaluate innovative programs that improve the quality and affordability of private health care in the developing world.

Connected Expert(s): 
Donika Dimovska
Connected Expert(s): 
Eva Ros
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Maria Belenky
Connected Project(s): 
Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funder: 
The Rockefeller Foundation
Attached File(s): 
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CHMI Press Release.pdf
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