Tag Archives: Catherine Connor

The Next Frontier to Support Health Resource Tracking

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Rachel Rosen, Karishma Bhuwanee, and Catherine Connor Published: September 2018 Resource Description: Tracking all health resources as expenditures or revenues helps countries understand and improve health system financing and performance. Country governments and partners have made significant investments over the past three decades to strengthen the production and use of health resource […]

Strategic Health Purchasing Progress: A Framework for Policymakers and Practitioners

Publications

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Cheryl Cashin, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Kelley Laird, Tihomir Strizrep, Altea Cico, Sharmini Radakrishnan, Ali Lauer, Catherine Connor, Sheila O’Dougherty, James White, and Katie Hammer Published: September 2018 Resource Description: Making progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) can seem costly to governments, whose resources and stewardship are needed to make change equitable (WHO 2010). Expanding coverage […]

Modeling Impact of the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) Project

Publications

Resource Type: Publication Authors: Kenya Datari, Rachel Sanders, Shamima Akhter, and Catherine Connor Published: September 2018 Resource Description: HFG and its partner Avenir Health conducted a rigorous exercise to estimate the impact of the project’s health systems strengthening activities on its overall goal: increased use of priority health services. We used Spectrum, a suite of modeling tools developed by […]

Understanding the Dynamics of Successful Health System Strengthening Interventions: Full Study Portfolio

Health Systems Research, Publications

USAID’s Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project helps to improve health in developing countries by expanding people’s access to health care. The project team works with partner countries to increase their domestic resources for health, manage those precious resources more effectively, and make wise purchasing decisions. HFG’s research portfolio enhances the ability of USAID to […]

Understanding the Dynamics of Successful Health System Strengthening Interventions: Study Design

Health Systems Research, Publications

Resource Type: Study Design Authors: Abigail Conrad, Daniela Rodriguez, Adam Koon, Joseph Naimoli, Sweta Saxena, & Catherine Connor Published: October 2017 Resource Description: Evidence is scarce, scattered, and not widely disseminated on how interventions to strengthen health system performance contribute to sustained improvements in health status, particularly toward ending preventable child and maternal deaths and […]

Understanding the Dynamics of Successful Health Systems Strengthening Interventions: Cross-case analysis

Health Systems Research, Publications

Resource Type: Synthesis Report Authors: Abigail Conrad, Daniela Rodriguez, Adam Koon, Joseph Naimoli, Sweta Saxena, & Catherine Connor Published: October 2017 Resource Description: USAID’s Health Finance and Governance project (HFG) contributes to USAID’s assistance to countries to deliver key health services and builds the evidence base around health systems strengthening (HSS). Under HFG’s research portfolio, a series […]

Learning from Doing: How USAID’s Health Financing and Governance Project Supports Health System Reforms

Journal Publications

Resource Type: Journal Publication Authors:  Abdo S. Yazbeck, Robert Fryatt, Catherine Connor & Lauren Alecci Hartel Published: March 14, 2018 Resource Description: This special issue of Health Systems & Reform presents a series of commentaries and articles that reflect the work of the Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project, a global flagship health project of the United States Agency […]

Webcast | Advances in Health Finance & Governance Series: Domestic Resource Mobilization for Health

Presentations, Resource Mobilization

  On Tuesday, January 16th HFG launched the Advances in Health Finance and Governance series with a roundtable on Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) at the Washington Learning Center in Arlington, Virginia. Listen as panelists discuss current trends in strategic health purchasing and provide specific examples of strategies underway in Nigeria and Vietnam. This event will […]

Public Financial Management, Health Governance, and Health Systems

Governance and Leadership, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Annie Baldridge, Elizabeth Elfman, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz, Hélène Barroy, Karima Saleh, and  Catherine Connor Published: October 2017 Resource Description: While the importance of governance in a health system is well recognized, there is an overall lack of evidence and understanding of the dynamics of how improved governance can influence health system performance and health […]

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