Trends in global health financing

Financing Health Research: New Trends and Modalities

Global health financing towards 2030 and beyond.

Universal health coverage and healthy lives for all are now widely shared goals and central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite significant progress over the last decades, the world is still far from reaching these goals. Billions of people lack basic coverage of health services, live with unnecessary pain and disability, or have their lives cut short by avoidable or treatab...

An Indian perspective on the challenges in global health financing.

In 2012, the Chatham House established a Working Group on Health Financing, of which I was a member, to deliberate on a global framework for health financing (Røttingen et al., 2014) (reference to paper by McIntyre et al., 2017). Intensive discussions and exhaustive studies brought out 20 recommendations. Of them three were important points emphasizing the need for countries to (i) ensure a min...

Financing global mental health services and the role of WHO.

A concrete indicator of a government's commitment to mental health services is the amount of financial resources it allocates. To encourage the government to increase mental health funding, it would require additional research and dissemination findings on the economic consequences of mental health disorders, cost-effectiveness benefits of alternatives treatment, and alternative methods of fina...

World Bank’s financing, priorities, and lending structures for global health

• The World Bank is the largest funder of global health within the UN system and the second largest funder overall • We identify five major periods in the bank’s role in global health in terms of lending, cooperation, and knowledge • Despite the entrance of major new global health organisations the bank has remained relevant through innovative financing mechanisms, close long term relations wit...