Moderator Dr. Ben Cislaghi provided an initial framing on ethical principles and values using four metaphors for framing global health: as a supermarket, a boxing ring, a colony, and/or a juggernaut. Like supermarkets, global health is often focused on selling outputs, such as vaccines. Global health is like a boxing ring because when a product gets on the market it becomes a fight over who can do it the cheapest and the fastest. Global health is a colony because most ...
Introduction It is imperative that the development community move beyond boutique, unscalable program designs towards sustainable scale-up of promising interventions, particularly through the public sector. However, pursuing sustainable scale through the public sector often puts organizations at cross-roads. The transition from direct project implementer to technical assistance (TA) provider, capacitating the government and system to own and be accountable for implementation, is a necessary approach to achieving sustainable scale. Yet, this transition brings with it critical tensions and considerations. In ...
This is the Health Working Group session of the Scaling Community of Practice's 2023 Annual Workshop. During this session, a panel of senior leaders working in the technical areas of Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Child Health and Family Planning provide observations and insights on how their fields view scaling up, including the major paradigms, frameworks and approaches that have been used to scale up effective interventions. The moderator then facilitates a discussion among the panelists to elicit common themes and contrasting perspectives ...
Speakers: David Leege, Senior Director, Impact, Learning, Knowledge and Accountability at CARE Callie Simon, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Team Lead and Senior Advisor at Save the Children US Olayinka Umar-Farouk, Deputy Project Director, Risk Communications at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Moderator: Rebecka Lundgren, Associate Professor, Center for Gender Equity and Health at University of California San Diego Introduction: Laura Ghiron, President of Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access, Co-Chair of the Health Technical Working Group ...
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By Richard Kohl (richardkohl@strategyandscale.com ) and Tom Feeny (tfeeny@r4d.org). Results for Development (R4D) is implementing a project funded by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) (1) to better understand and catalyze demand for, and scale-up of, health innovations by public sector actors in developing countries, and (2) to identify what GCC (and other donors) can do to encourage public sector scaling. The project began in June 2020 and has recently completed a first draft of a landscape analysis. It is currently being ...
