Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

Given the increasing popularity of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in India, there is a need to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of existing PPPs in order to strengthen them and to better equip and inform future PPPs. In this context, ACCESS Health International has undertaken a comparative case study of mobile medical units (MMUs) in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh with the objective of understanding and analyzing the functioning of the program. The case focuses on the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms of the program, and provides recommendations to strengthen these mechanisms.

I met Michael Schreiber, Managing Director of GBCHealth, at 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.

How do you build a dream hospital for the poor? Dr. Fernando Astom, the chief of La Union Medical Center, a tertiary-level hospital about six hours north of Manila, realized he needed to rethink nearly every aspect of public sector hospital management.

"When the governor asked me to head this hospital, he said I was to transform it into a dream hospital for the rural poor," Dr.

This post can also be found on NextBillion, as part of a series on health care delivery with the BoP.

African governments do not ignore the private sector, as a rule. In Lesotho, the main national hospital is run by a private organization, publicly funded at 80 percent of its budget, provided that it submits health data monthly and follows Ministry of Health accreditation procedures.