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Research Symposium
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| Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
The Global Health Council’s 2009 Research Symposium is a day-long event for researchers, policy makers, and implementers to examine the ways in which research can be effectively used to address obstacles to delivery of goods and services.
Morning Session:
Product Development, Delivery Bottlenecks
10:30 am–1:30 pm
Blue Room | map
Despite the booming development of new technologies to improve global health over the past decade, the delivery and implementation of new interventions has been slow and inequitable. Numerous challenges prevent or hamper the uptake of these new services and products, including political, structural and economic policies. This session will identify pitfalls in the development-to-delivery pipeline, to determine the necessary steps to streamline the process, and to identify ways in which research can be used to find solutions.
Moderator:
- Matthew Lynch, Director of the Global Program on Malaria
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Presenters:
- Dr. Ambrose O. Talisuna, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
- Yvette Collymore, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI)
- Jane Kengeya-Kayondo, Strategic Alliances Coordinator, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), WHO
The morning session comprises three parts: an hour of panel presentations, an hour of facilitated group discussion, and an hour of report-out. The panel presentations will address the factors that contribute to delivery bottlenecks and product pileup, the importance of community input in product development and delivery, and the need for continued operations research to scale-up successful interventions. The group discussion will focus on questions relating to these presentations, in addition to other themes related to the development-to-delivery pipeline. The report-out will provide the participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their findings and devise a framework to continue the discussion generated at the Symposium.
Afternoon Session:
Improving Health Outcomes in Mixed Public-Private Health Systems
3:30–5:15 pm
Blue Room | map
Achieving good and equitable health outcomes for poor people around the world depends on the performance of health systems. Today, many developing countries have what can be characterized as “mixed” public/private health systems. These countries, which historically attempted to create centrally-planned and publicly provided health systems, have over time organically evolved toward high levels of market activity with numerous private providers and very high out-of-pocket spending. Country-level institutions and stewardship structures have not kept pace with this evolution of health systems, leading to underperforming health systems infrastructures and poor health outcomes for developing countries’ populations.
Presenters:
- Dai Hozumi, PATH
- Sofi Bergkvist, Haseltine Foundation
- David Peters, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Gina Lagomarsino, Results for Development Institute (R4D)
This panel will present new research on strategies to harness the resources of the private health sector by creating effective frameworks for improved public-private collaboration with the goal of attaining better performing “mixed” health systems. More specifically, presenters will focus on ways for key stakeholders (e.g. national governments, donors and international institutions) to support the development of models that recognize opportunities to harness the private health sector, while mitigating the serious risks that can occur when the private sector operates unregulated. This research was completed by the technical partners of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative.
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