Global Health Research Briefs

2011

Improving Value for Money in Funding HIV Services in Developing Countries — 2011

This brief summarizes options for improving value for money in HIV funding by using a case study that focuses on the two largest funders, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund, and antiretroviral therapy.

2010

How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America? — 2010

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America? (Spanish translation) — 2010

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

2009

Improving Mass Delivery of Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa — 2009

Provides a summary of strategies for making access to antiretroviral therapy widespread, sustainable, more cost-effective, and efficient, while still providing quality care in sub-Saharan Africa.

2008

Organizing for Quality: Inside the ''Black Box'' of Health Care Improvement in Europe and the United States — 2008

This research brief summarizes a book on health care quality improvement efforts, suggesting a focus on the organizational and human dimensions of change and the processes by which these dimensions are set in motion and unfold over time.

2007

Estimating the Global Health Impact of Improved Diagnostic Tools for the Developing World — 2007

This research brief summarizes research assessing how higher-quality and more-accessible clinical diagnostic tests could improve health outcomes in the developing world for a number of common diseases.

Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building — 2007

This research brief examines past attempts to rebuild public health and health care delivery systems during nation-building efforts after U.S. military deployments intended to underpin the transition to peace, democracy, and economic stability.

2006

Global Technology Revolution 2020: Technology Trends and Cross-Country Variation — 2006

This research brief examines how technology changes -- in economic development, health, environmental quality, and military power -- will play out differently across the globe.

2005

The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State — 2005

This research brief describes work documented in The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State (MG-327-GG).

Building A Successful Palestinian State — 2005

This research brief describes work documented in Building a Successful Palestinian State (MG-146-DCR).

2003

Policy and Health in Asia: Financing and Allocating Public Expenditures — 2003

2000

Policy and Health in Asia: Demographic and Epidemiologic Transitions — 2000

Governments in much of Asia must grapple on the one hand with the unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and on the other with the new agenda of noncommunicable ones in an aging population.