Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

I met Michael Schreiber, Managing Director of GBCHealth, at the recent incarnation of Net Impact, where he spoke up about how big companies can improve access to quality health care around the world.

As a coalition of companies aligned to promote health worldwide, Schreiber’s organization GBCHealth helps companies design and implement innovative health programs. Created by an initial coalition of 17 companies under founding President and CEO Richard C.

During a series of trips to Somalia in the late 1980s, Barry and Andrea Coleman noticed that broken down emergency transport vehicles were to be found at hospitals and clincs around the country, while women in childbirth were being brought to hospitals wheelbarrows. Frustrated by this failure of supply and demand, the Colemans remortgaged their house and founded Riders for Health to help manage fleets of vehicles serving as transportation solutions for healthcare organizations targeting rural populations.

To support the efforts of countries that have committed to making substantive universal health coverage reforms, experts in many areas of financial protection must continually share in dialogue and debate.

To this end, the Results for Development Institute, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, is pleased to announce the launch of UHC Forward, a new website that tracks and consolidates key health coverage information from hundreds of sources into a one-stop portal with feature n

A new comprehensive analysis of Ghana’s health marketplace conducted recently for the World Bank Group should be mandatory reading for health enterprises, analysts, or others keen to enter, expand or study operations in this progressive west African country.

Does the private sector deliver care for the poor and other vulnerable people? How do government policies in Ghana shape the role played by the private sector in contributing to national health goals and objectives?