Tracking financial commitments to women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health
One of our key research interests at The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health is studying how money flows through the global health “system.” We are interested in questions such as where does global health financing come from, through which channels does it flow, where does it end up, and how is it used? There is an enormous financing gap to achieve the ambitious health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—one study suggests that an additional $371 billion is needed annually across low- and middle-income countries—and the tracking of finance flows is critical in knowing whether the gap is being closed. Just meeting the child and maternal health targets in SDG3 alone is estimated to require an additional $33 billion annually. In recent months, along with our colleagues at Open Consultants…