The push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) must focus on designing a Health Benefits Package that is sensible, fair and evidence based – this was the take-home message from IDSI’s visit to Washington DC this week. The US capital was the setting for three days of meetings and events to mark UHC Day and the release of ‘What’s In, What’s …
PMAC 2016 report published
The Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2016 report is now available to download from the PMAC website, along with the program, and materials from the plenaries and panels. The theme for this year’s conference was Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Discussion focused on how countries can make “better decisions about priorities in the context of UHC, regardless of how rich …
iDSI scale up means more health for the money – Impatient Optimists blog
Amanda Glassman, Vice President for Programs, Director of Global Health Policy, and Senior Fellow at iDSI partner organisation CGD has offered her view on what the recently announced scale up of iDSI and US$12.8m grant awarded to the initiative by the Gates Foundation will mean for global health. Read her full blog post here.