Health policy |
Global and national health policy-makers are increasingly experimenting with health policy and health system reforms, ranging from global subsidies to essential medicines, public-private partnerships, changes to provider payment mechanisms, demand side incentives such as conditional cash transfers, and new service delivery mechanisms. We develop and apply innovative methods to analyze health policies and to assess their impacts. This include analysis and evaluation of international and national influences on health policy; assessment of how to put health policy into action; and assessments of how health systems are funded - from the raising of revenue, to allocation of revenue to payers, to the paying of providers – and the implications for the population in terms of health and financial risk protection. We also assess how best to bridge the gap between researchers and policy-makers to translate evidence to policy. Finally we put heavy emphasis on developing and testing concepts for strengthening governance of health system and policies and its implications for health systems effectiveness.