Global Collaborators
The Center for Health Market Innovations collaborates with a number of global organizations that are committed to improving the functioning of health markets in developing countries. The following collaborators are sources of programmatic information for the CHMI database, sources of analytical/research, large-scale program implementers, and/or direct funders of programs.
Acumen Fund
DKT International
Future Health Systems Consortium
Global Impact Investing Network
The Private Sector Programme in Health (PSP)
Nossal Institute for Global Health
Monitor Group
PharmAccess Foundation
Population Council
Population Services International
USAID SHOPS
University of Toronto
World Bank/IFC
World Economic Forum
Marie Stopes International
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. The fund seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Its investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services – like health, water, housing and energy – through innovative, market-oriented approaches.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Direct funder of programs
DKT International
DKT is a non-profit organization that has been promoting family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention through social marketing in the developing world. DKT International designs and implements social marketing programs in 16 countries around the world and in 2009, DKT programs served just over 19 million couples using standard conversion factors for Couple Years of Protection (CYP). This figure makes DKT the largest private provider of contraceptives and family planning services in the developing world.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Program implementer
Futures Health Systems Consortium
Future Health System is a research consortium led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with partners in Bangladesh, China, India, Nigeria, Uganda and the UK. Futures Health Systems Consortium generates knowledge to shape health systems that benefit the world's poor. As a program funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Future Health Systems addresses fundamental questions about the design of health systems and works closely with people who are leading the transformation of health systems in their own countries. The Consortium brings together policymakers from influential countries with leading public health and development research institutions to understand and test:
* Methods of financing health that account for patterns of poverty, vulnerability, and new approaches to social protection;
* Innovative strategies to improve access to competent public or private health services in contexts where relationships between providers, government, civil society and users are changing rapidly;
* New ways of linking research to policy processes at local, national and global levels.
Partners: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA; China Health Economics Institute; Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh; Indian Institute of Health Management Research; Institute of Development Studies, UK; Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda; University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
• Program implementer
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing - for-profit investment made to solve social and environment problems. The GIIN supports collaboration, develops industry infrastructure, and undertakes research and advocacy to foster a coherent impact investing industry. It also works to increase dramatically the level and effectiveness of capital that is supporting market-based solutions to social and environmental problems. The GIIN's programmatic agenda is rooted in the challenges investors face. It serves as a forum for identifying and addressing the systemic barriers that hinder the impact investing industry's efficiency and effectiveness.
Role:
• Analytical/research resource
The Private Sector Programme (PSP)
The Private Sector Programme (PSP) is a collaborative research programme involving ten research institutions in Sweden (IHCAR, Karolinska Institutet), USA (IHSP, Harvard) China, Vietnam, Lao PDR, India, Uganda and Zambia. The programme seeks to strengthen health systems' performance and their outcome in terms of improved health by exploring the non-state (private) health sector and how it can be involved in providing adequate health care to the population, in particular those in most need. The programme has received support since 2002 from Sida. Large-scale studies of the private sector have been completed within the programme countries engaged in PSP.
Role:
• Analytical/research resource
Nossal Institute for Global Health
The Nossal Institute for Global Health brings together the multi-disciplinary expertise and capabilities of the University of Melbourne, in areas such as communicable disease research and epidemiology, technological innovations and social sciences, and economics and politics, to improve global health, Although the Institute’s primary geographic focus is on the emerging economies of Asia and the Pacific, the Institute also has links in Africa (Mozambique) and with regional and international bodies. The Institute also hosts the Health Policy and Health Finance Knowledge Hub, an AusAID funded initiative to build the expertise and knowledge base needed to improve health systems functioning in the countries of Asia Pacific.
Role:
• Analytical/research resource
Monitor Group
Founded in 1983, Monitor Group is a global firm that serves clients through a range of professional services — strategic advisory, capability building and capital services — and integrates these services in a customized way for each client. Monitor offers a portfolio of services to its clients who seek to stay competitive in their global markets. The firm employs or collaborates with some of the world’s foremost business experts and thought leaders to develop and deliver specialized capabilities in areas including competitive strategy, marketing and pricing strategy, innovation, national and regional economic competitiveness, organizational design, and capability building.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
PharmAccess Foundation
PharmAccess Foundation is a Dutch not-for-profit organization dedicated to the strengthening of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Through its activities, PharmAccess contributes to the building of sustainable integrated health systems with upgraded hospitals and clinics, well-trained African doctors and nurses, sufficient beds, reliable diagnostics, an accountable financial and administrative organization and improved access to quality basic health care. PharmAccess supports programs and offers services in the areas of medical and administrative capacity building, health insurance, HIV/AIDS and health care workplace programs, health investments and health intelligence.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
Population Council
Population council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council conducts research in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health. Their work ranges over the broad field of population: from research to improve services and products that respond to people's reproductive health needs to designing interventions to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The Council is also concerned with the reproductive health and well-being of the one billion adolescents in the developing world who are about to enter their reproductive years and whose behavior will shape the future of their countries.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
Population Services International
PSI is a global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive health. Working in partnership within the public and private sectors, and harnessing the power of the markets, PSI provides life-saving products, clinical services and behavior change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives. PSI is also the implementing organization behind social franchises such as Sun Quality Health in Cambodia and Myanmar, Top Reseau in Madagascar, and Greenstar in Pakistan, among others.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Program implementer
USAID SHOPS
The Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project is a five-year global initiative, funded by USAID, with a mandate to increase the role of the private sector in the sustainable provision and use of quality family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV/AIDS, and other health information, products and services. To promote greater private sector involvement in improving world health, SHOPS provides technical services such as conducting private sector assessments, facilitating public-private partnerships, developing and strengthening private provider networks and franchises, improving private provider access to finance, and fostering policy and regulatory change, among others. SHOPS is led by Abt Associates, an international leader in health systems and private sector health, in partnership with Banyan Global, Jhpiego, Marie Stopes International, the Monitor Group, and O’Hanlon Health Consulting.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
• Program implementer
• Direct funder of programs
University of Toronto
Established in 1827, the University of Toronto is Canada's largest university, recognized as a global leader in research and teaching. The University of Toronto has several groups and researchers working collaboratively on innovations in health service delivery and markets for health products in low and middle-income countries. They span the areas of health services research, management, marketing, ethics and biotechnology. The University is also home to the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, an initiative with a mission to develop and evaluate new models of global health innovation and facilitate their adoption where they are most urgently needed.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
World Bank/IFC - Business of Health In Africa Initiative
IFC and the World Bank are working with international donors, African policy makers, financial intermediaries, local business people and other stakeholders to respond to and help Africa address its health care challenges. IFC and its partners expect to mobilize up to $1 billion of investment advisory services support over the next five years. The initiative's strategy includes:
- Creating an equity investment vehicle to provide better access to equity and expertise for socially responsible private health companies serving underprivileged and low-income people.
- Providing advisory support to build capacity within local financial intermediaries and the health care organizations to which they lend.
- Expanding education of health care workers, including through public-private partnerships.
- Encouraging development of risk pooling, including health maintenance organizations/insurers.
Role:
• Analytical/research resource
• Direct funder of programs
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum initiative on “Innovative Models in Healthcare Delivery” concentrates on enterprise-level solutions that have a significant impact on access to care and efficiency of delivery. The Forum, in cooperation with knowledge partner McKinsey & Company, had identified case studies of innovations, with a specific spotlight on emerging markets and private-sector solutions that are self-sustaining and can be replicated as well as scaled. The initiative also seeks to engage key stakeholders and influencers to leverage knowledge and share insights.
Role:
• Source of programmatic information for CHMI Database
• Analytical/research resource
Resources:
• Unlocking Productivity Booklet
• WEF Delivery Innovations Paper
Marie Stopes International
Marie Stopes International is a not-for-profit sexual and reproductive health organisation that uses modern business methods to achieve the social goal of preventing unintended pregnancies and unwanted births in countries around the world.
In addition to the UK, Marie Stopes International has a further centres, multiple outreach sites and mobile services across 43 countries delivering the same high standard of care and services. As well as abortion, female sterilisation, vasectomy and health screening, Marie Stopes International also offers post abortion care; maternal & child health; STI diagnosis & treatment, and HIV prevention initiatives including condom distribution and male circumcision.