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Topic:Health Financing Schemes
Financing structures are critical to the achievement of health outcomes and developing countries often lack sufficient resources to deliver adequate services. Financial barriers such as out-of-pocket spending and user fees prevent household members from seeking curative and preventative health care making Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6 difficult to attain.
Mobilization of resources and health insurance schemes such as conditional cash transfers, private-public partnerships, and community-based financing offer unique solutions to scale up coverage, however, the Global Health Initiative recognizes there is no “magic-bullet” and creates a forum for dialogue among policymakers, practitioners, leading scholars, and private sector members to examine strategies for health investment planning.
Current Initiative: With funding from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GHI is analyzing and documenting the budgeting and allocations process employed in select countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, is identifying strengths and weaknesses within the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance during this process, and making recommendations for improving performance.
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Events
Global Health Spending: Why Maternal Health Is Not a Political Priority
Wednesday, March 04 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Jeremy Shiffman, Associate Professor of Public Administration, The Campbell Public Affairs Institute Maxwell School, Syracuse University; Ann M. Starrs, President, Family Care International
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Reform and Retrenchment: The Russian Healthcare System Under Putin
Monday, March 02 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Alexandra Vacroux, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in the 111th Congress: The Developing World
Friday, January 30 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Cynthia Arnson, director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; former Congressman Howard Wolpe, director, Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Gib Clarke, coordinator, Global Health Initiative, Woodrow Wilson Center
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The Health of Ethiopia: An Update by Ethiopia's Health Minister
Monday, October 20 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom will remark upon U.S.-Ethiopian Health Partnerships; Recent Health Innovations; and the Health-Related Impacts of the Food, Fuel, and Finance Crises.
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Conditional Cash Transfers and the Health Sector
Thursday, September 25 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Rogelio Gómez Hermosillo, former National Coordinator, Oportunidades; James Riccio, Director, Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area, MDRC, New York City; Michelle Adato, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
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Gib Clarke,
Coordinator
Calyn M. Ostrowski,
Program Assistant
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Global Health Initiative
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: globalhealth@wilsoncenter.org
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