R4D's mission is to spark innovative ideas and catalyze high impact actions that reduce poverty and improve lives in developing countries.

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.

aids2031 is a international consortium of partners examining the future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Costs and Financing Working Group is focused on modeling and analyzing the long-term costs and financing of the epidemic, and examining scenarios in which major policy shifts now can improve the future expenditure and financing situation.

The Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI) brings together expertise in leadership development and specialized technical areas needed to design and successfully make and implement health sector policy. As a technical partner in MLI, R4D is providing technical assistance focused on improvements in equitable financing and donor harmonization in Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.

The Ministry of Health, with support from the joint IFC/World Bank Health in Africa Initiative, launched the Country Assessment on July 20th, 2009. At present the R4D study team is conducting a large-scale review of the Ghanaian private health sector, with the ultimate goal of offering concrete, actionable recommendations on effectively harnessing the potential of private providers of health services.

Transforming Health Systems is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation that seeks to strengthen health systems by supporting global level analysis of policies that drive a global health systems agenda and country level work to implement catalytic demonstrations of health systems transformation. 

The Results for Development Institute (R4D) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating social and economic progress in low and middle income countries. We provide policy analysis, critical information, decision-making tools, and policy advice to governments, civil society organizations, and international funders in order to stimulate positive change. With expertise in many areas – including specialties in economics and finance, health policy, education, and governance – R4D works with leaders, globally and at country level, to design and test solutions to some of the world’s biggest development challenges.

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4 January, 2010

Millions of people are affected by so-called “diseases of the poor” in low and...

17 November, 2009

At its annual board meeting in Vietnam, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI...

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Program Associate

Courtney Heck is a Program Associate at R4D.   She focuses on transparency and good governance and works on the Transparency and Accountability Program.

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This proposes a results‐based contracting approach that builds on current and previous successes in leveraging private sector organizations that could potentially improve the outcomes of future malaria prevention programs.