Better Governance, Better Health: The Evidence
September 27, 2018Resource Type: Publication Authors: Annie Baldridge, Hélène Barroy, Sara Bennett, Maryam Bigdelli, Derick W. Brinkerhoff, Jodi Charles, David Clarke, Catherine Connor, Arin Dutta, Fadi El Jardali, Elizabeth Elfman, Walter Flores, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz …
Repositioning the Health Economics Unit
September 26, 2018Resource Type: Report and Powerpoint Presentation Authors: Margaret Morehouse, Shamima Akhter, Shumona Shafinaz, Pial Islam, and Mursaleena Islam Published: June 2018 Resource Description: This report proposes a plan for repositioning the Health Eco …
Advances in Health Finance & Governance: Knowledge and Learning Briefs
September 25, 2018The Advances in Health Finance & Governance Knowledge & Learning Brief Series is designed to highlight learning and lessons from the HFG project in nine core areas: domestic resource mobilization, strategic health purchasing, health fi …
Resource Allocation and Utilization in the Health and Education Sectors: Challenges and Opportunities in Ghana
July 31, 2018In 2017, the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and HFG completed a study that applied a political economy approach to examine the complex landscape of institutions, political pressures, incentives, obstacles, and costs that Ghana fa …
Smoothing Painful Bumps on the Path to Universal Health Coverage: Strengthening Governance for Quality Care
June 13, 2018On Tuesday, June 5, 2018, USAID’s Health Financing and Governance Project (HFG) organized with USAID’s Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) project, the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN), and the World …
Strengthening Governance for Improved Health Sector Performance
May 8, 2018Resource Type: Brief Authors: Peter Vaz, Altea Cico, Jeremy Kanthor, Sharon Nakhimovsky and Ffyona Patel Published: May 2018 Resource Description: While the importance of governance in health systems is recognized, its contribution to improving healt …
Better Health? Composite Evidence from Four Literature Reviews
April 9, 2018Resource Type: Report Authors: Health Finance and Governance Project Published: March 2018 Resource Description: The Marshaling the Evidence secretariat agreed that a cross-cutting synthesis paper was necessary to frame the work in the wider context …
Accountability, Health Governance, and Health Systems: Uncovering the Linkages
November 12, 2017Resource Type: Report Authors: Derick W. Brinkerhoff, David Jacobstein, Jeremy Kanthor, Dheepa Rajan and Katie Shepard Published: November 2017 Resource Description: This report presents findings and analysis related to accountability, its connectio …
Do Better Laws and Regulations Promote Universal Health Coverage? A Review of the Evidence
November 9, 2017Resource Type: Report Authors: Shreeshant Prabhakaran, Arin Dutta, Akshar Saxena, Kelsee Stromberg, David Clarke, Suneeta Sharma Published: October 2017 Resource Description: The importance of policies, laws, and regulations (referred to collectively …
A Scoping Review of the Uses and Institutionalization of Knowledge for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
November 9, 2017Resource Type: Report Authors: Adam Koon, Lauren Windmeyer, Maryam Bigdelli, Jodi Charles, Fadi El Jardali, Walter Flores, Jesse Uneke, Sara Bennett for the Health Finance and Governance Project. Published: November 2017 Resource Description: There …
