Seminar
Spending the Next $ for Global Health – Roles and Priorities for Charities and Governments - OHE Lunchtime Seminar
- Date:
- 04 Nov 03
- Speakers:
- Hannah Kettler
- Outline
- At the Millennium Summit in 2000, global leaders committed in principle to dramatically reduce poverty and improve the health of the poor via the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals. However, the resources so far committed to achieving these high level statements have...
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fallen well short of what is needed, despite the inputs of charitable foundations, most notably the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The shortage of funds reinforces the need for clear prioritisation to achieve the maximum benefit possible.
Dr Hannah Kettler is an economist at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As a programme officer for the Global Health Strategies team, she focuses on the challenges of building up global and sustainable R&D and delivery systems to improve the health of the poor. In her presentation, Hannah assessed the roles to which charitable foundations, national governments and international organisations are respectively suited. She also considered the usefulness of different criteria in prioritising investments in global health improvement, including the approaches adopted by the Gates Foundation and the World Bank. What strategies are they pursuing to realise the greatest impact on the health of the poor? How are choices being made between diseases and populations, between prevention and treatment, between access and R&D; and how important to this process is analysis of cost-effectiveness?