Policy Engagements

How we work

Our work is structured around four interconnected and mutually reinforcing elements: 

Analyse

Understanding and sense making of the current international discourse in health by building on diverse inputs including direct engagements with stakeholders, academic literature, think-tank publications, multilateral processes and country- and regional initiated initiatives. 

Engage 

Listening to, learning from, and contributing to ongoing discussions and processes through a mix of direct/bilateral discussions, small group convenings (in-person and online) and larger seminars. Our engagements span senior (e.g. ministers, ambassadors and heads of agencies) and working levels (e.g. directors, health attachés) from across the world, allowing us to gain full diversity of ideas and views.   

Ideate 

Reviewing existing policy and reform proposals and developing our own, informed by our analysis and engagement. The focus varies from addressing macro level questions about the future role of the international system for health to considerations regarding specific institutions or timely thematic issues.    

Communicate 

Voicing our independent views and opinions through various dissemination channels, aiming to set out bold yet achievable proposals. We are communicating our ideas in analytical publications, focused opinion and viewpoint pieces (inc. media articles), seminars and smaller online and in-person discussions. 

Our outputs

Our work materialises in the following key outputs: 

Publications 

1. Insights papers: To provide an accessible, analytical overview of ongoing discussions and processes relevant to reforms of the international system for health. 
2. Policy briefs: To provide concise and technically justified policy recommendations to health leaders and decision makers. 
3. Views: To inform public opinion on current or emerging issues based on our latest insights. 

Events  

1. Webinars: To put forward bold ideas and popularize specific topics among relevant stakeholders.  
2. Seminars: To facilitate discussion, to foster open dialogue, exchange insights, test and pioneer provocative ideas on a specific topic among health leaders.

Our foundation: Four paradigm shifts

Our work is underpinned by four paradigm shifts, intended as a high-level framework to guide collective thinking and subsequently drive concerted political actions and tangible reform and health outcomes, described in a publication in The Lancet (read here), summarised below: 

1. Shifts in the issues affecting people’s health, from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases, and toward environmental and commercial determinants of health. 
2. Shifts in power from global institutions to regional and national levels, including a redefining of what functions should be delivered by the global level. 
3. Shifts in design from a complex, fragmented and competitive system to a modernized and simplified one, with fewer institutions and clearer mandates. 
4. Shifts in financing from an aid-based paradigm to domestic financing and self-sufficiency, while securing sustainable financing of global functions. 

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