An important United Nations sustainable development goal target for health aims to “achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.” Following this declaration, significant resources have been invested in tracking countries’ progress toward the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). However, these efforts disproportionately focus on tracking implementation and outcome metrics without sufficient attention to the policy environment needed to achieve success.
One reason for this is the lack of quality data on UHC policies for many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Solving this data problem will create opportunities for comparative cross-country analysis and longitudinal analysis to understand the impact of different policy experiments on UHC progress in different jurisdictions.
This project aims to create a centralized source to track the evolution of UHC financing policy for low- and middle-income countries. Using a policy surveillance approach, the project team will conduct a systematic identification, collection, coding and analysis of laws and policies that influence financing for UHC in each country.
This project is funded by Bass Connections at Duke University. Bass Connections brings together faculty, postdocs, graduate students, undergraduates, and external partners to tackle complex societal challenges in interdisciplinary research teams.
Faculty/Staff Contributor
Ipchita Bharali, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health
Ashwini Deshpande, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health
Siddharth Dixit, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health
Rosemary Fernholz, Sanford School of Public Policy
Wenhui Mao, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health
Osondu Ogbuoji, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health
Indermit Gill, Sanford School of Public Policy
Gavin Yamey, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health
Graduate Team Members
Zoe Hughes
Beaux Kennedy
Felicia Lim
Katharine Thomas
Undergraduate Team Members
Theiija Balasubramanian
Emma Brennan
Yaxuan Cui
Kiara Ekeigwe
Parinay Gupta
Trisha Gupta
Jessica Jiang
Amber Lemmons
Sonali Sanjay
Shawin Vitsupakorn
Community Team Members
Lindsay Cloud, PSP of the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University
Adam Herpolsheimer, PSP of the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University
Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill
Susan Sparkes, World Health Organization
Joshua Waimberg, PSP of the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University
Video: Kennedy Mitton I, Thomas K, Vitsupakorn S. Financial Risk Protection in Universal Health Coverage. The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Video: March 2022. Available at: https://biteable.com/watch/3083379/62b9b8deaa7fc38fcd75b6f642d75b7d
Video: Kennedy Mitton I, Thomas K, Vitsupakorn S. Essential Package of Health Services. The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Video: March 2022. Available at: https://biteable.com/watch/3083379/62b9b8deaa7fc38fcd75b6f642d75b7d
Video: Brennan E, Ekeigwe K, Hughes Z. Universal Health Coverage- Equity Issues. The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Video: March 2022. Available at: https://biteable.com/watch/3347451/eb40167813aaac64218a5d2e49778e71
Video: Balasubramanian T, Gupta T, Sanjay S. Positive Outcomes of Universal Health Coverage. The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Video: March 2022. Available at: https://biteable.com/watch/3344248/13e4d9697c9bb6f143de9f4ab3c6297b
Video: Cui A, Jiang J, Lemmons A. Expensive prescription drug prices in the United States. The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Video: March 2022. Available at: https://biteable.com/watch/3343441/6b1d771b8cdd4485e809fcd7ef90db57
This project is funded by Bass Connections at Duke University.
Questions? Please contact Gavin Yamey.
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