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Spotlight: Public Health


Reuters/David Gray - A nurse comforts a patient after she administered medicine to her at the Beijing You An Hospital.

Save to My Portfolio Politics, and Public Health Policy Reform

Kent Buse and Amanda Glassman, September 17, 2008

In an article for the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Brookings Scholar Amanda Glassman and Kent Buse, Research Fellow from the Overseas Development Institute, review the major theoretical treatments of politics in the health sector in developing countries and provide examples of common issues that have emerged in the study of the politics of public health policy reform. Read More

Global Health, Developing Countries, Public Health, Politics, Global Poverty

Malaria Prevention

Save to My Portfolio Free Distribution Or Cost-Sharing? Evidence From A Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment

Jessica Cohen and Pascaline Dupas, December 21, 2007

In a new Global working paper, Jessica Cohen studies malaria prevention efforts in detail, analyzing whether free distribution or cost-sharing of anti-malarial insecticide-treated nets in Kenya affects prevention of the disease. Read More

Health Care, Africa, Global Health, Global Economics, Economic Development

Spotlight: World AIDS Day


Reuters/Ajay Verma - School children take part in a campaign for AIDS awareness in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh.

Save to My Portfolio Better Aid for AIDS Treatment: The Promise of Endowment Funds

Amanda Glassman and Christopher Lane, November 29, 2007

The continuity and sustainability of global health financing continues to be a major challenge in the fight to stem HIV/AIDS, particularly in developing countries. Brookings Global Health expert Amanda Glassman examines country-based endowment funds as one innovative financing mechanism that could help alleviate this ongoing problem. Read More

Health Care, Africa, Global Health, Global Finance, Global Poverty

Spotlight: World AIDS Day


Reuters/Jacky Naegelen - A medical personnel working with Medecin de Monde conducts HIV tests at Ouidah's hospital near Cotonou.

Save to My Portfolio Low-Cost Health Insurance in Africa Provides the Poor with Antiretroviral Drugs

Jacques van der Gaag and Emily Gustafsson-Wright, November 29, 2007

Reflecting on World AIDS Day, Brookings Global Health Financing scholars discuss the importance of providing low-cost health insurance to low-income households to help guarantee HIV/AIDS treatment. Read More

Africa, Health Care, Global Health, Developing Countries, Global Poverty

Financing Global Health Care


The World Bank/Curt Carnemark - Mother and child in Mali

Financing and Improving Global Health Care

As the volume of health aid to developing countries increases and allocations shift toward specific diseases, issues of aid allocation become more important to the achievement of better health outcomes. Brookings Global expert Amanda Glassman examines the effectiveness and impact of health aid in a recent Health Affairs article.

Recent Research and Commentary

Health Care From Few to Many

Global Health Health Systems Strengthening Via Performance-Based Aid

Rena Eichler, Amanda Glassman, September 2008

Global Health Accounting for Health Spending in Developing Countries

Amanda Glassman, Patricia Hernández, Dorota A. Raciborska, September/October 2008

Global Health Politics, and Public Health Policy Reform

Kent Buse, Amanda Glassman, September 2008

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