Emerging Markets
Emerging markets face unique challenges in accessing medicines and medical technologies.
A Final MVAC Blueprint—and the Start of an R&D Revolution?
6 February 2020
TB kills 1.6m people annually – the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The Market-Driven, Value-Based Advance Commitment (MVAC), creates and guarantees a market for better TB treatment.…
Funding Challenges in the Malaysian Health Care System
7 January 2020
Adrian Towse presented at the Monash Malaysia Health Economics Forum 2019 on three related topics: health system financing in Malaysia; pharmaceutical price regulation and competition in…
We Asked, You Answered: Reflections on the First Round of MVAC Feedback
16 May 2019
Market-Driven, Value-Based Advanced Commitment (MVAC) is a new mechanism to help re-direct private-sector R&D investments where they’re needed most. We propose to use MVAC to encourage…
The WHO Technical Report on the Pricing of Cancer Medicines: Missing a Central Role for Value Assessment
8 April 2019
A new OHE Research Paper reviews a recent report on cancer pricing published by the World Health Organization. The authors argue that the report fails to…
Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? Five Questions We Think Matter a Lot
29 March 2019
Transparency as a principle of good governance is not the same as transparency for improving access by lowering prices. In fact, the former often carries an…
Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? Not So Fast…
28 March 2019
Report does not recommend price transparency for on-patent medicines, but buyers should share multi-source product price data among themselves. Transparency of the procurement process encourages bidders.…
The World Needs Better Drugs for TB. The Center for Global Development and OHE Have a Proposal and We Need your Feedback
5 March 2019
Innovation is a critical tool in the global fight against tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that primarily affects the poor and vulnerable and ranks among the…
As UN General Assembly Highlights Tuberculosis Fight, Will BRICS Lead on the R&D Agenda?
26 September 2018
The Center for Global Development and the Office of Health Economics are working on a new approach to drive the next generation of investment for better…
A Critique of Hill et al. (2018) on Estimated Costs of Production for the WHO Essential Medicines List
19 May 2018
OHE Consulting produces a report critiquing a paper by Hill et al. (2018) on estimated costs of production for the WHO Essential Medicines List.