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HD106: Future Health Systems: Making Health Systems Work for the Poor

Director: David Peters, Johns Hopkins University
Future Health Systems: Making Health Systems Work for the Poor programme record

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The consortium's aim is to create knowledge and shape future health systems that will benefit the world's poor. The RPC will bring policy-makers from influential developing countries together with leading public health and development research institutions to test strategies in three main areas:

• Ways in which the financing of health care can reduce people's risk of poverty;
• Ways to improve access to health services in settings where the relationships between government, the private sector, health providers, civil society and the public are changing rapidly; and
• Ways in which health systems research can influence policy and programs to promote the interests of the poor.

Consortium partners are based in countries that are critical to meeting the Millennium Development Goals -- Bangladesh, China, India, Nigeria, and Uganda. The RPC will work in these countries as well as Afghanistan, where it is important to learn about the transition out of conflict. The lead agency is Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA), which along with Institute of Development Studies (UK), will play key facilitating roles in working with the RPC partners, national stakeholders, DFID, and other international agencies.

The partners and principal researchers are:

• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH), Baltimore, USA
• Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, United Kingdom
• Centre for Health and Population Research (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Chinese Health Economics Institute (CHEI), Beijing, China
• Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, India
• The Institute of Public Health (IPH), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
• University of Ibadan (UI), College of Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Ibadan, Nigeria.