Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

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

At the first-annual Private Sector Working Group meeting, during last week’s Global Health Council, participants discussed approaches to improving governments’ engagement with the the private sector to improve the quality and affordability of health care. Here, I asked Dr. Dithan Kiragga, deputy chief of party for the USAID-funded Health Initiatives for the Private Sector (HIPS) about his experience with in Uganda organizing the private sector to better serve the poor.

Since I joined CHMI earlier this year, I have seen a number of programs that use community level health workers to deliver key interventions that prevent maternal and childhood morbidity and mortality--a hot topic recently.

A huge challenges for every nation is to provide healthcare to its people. This challenge does not end by simply providing health services for them. The more important goal is to secure everyone with access to sufficient and suitable healthcare, based on the needs of each. Unfortunately, facing this challenge entails a rather complex cooperation among different sectors.