Development Assistance for Health during Economic Crisis

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Video Links with Kenya and Ghana

Presenter
Dr. Christopher Murray, MD, DPhil
Institute Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and
Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington

Chair
Ok Pannenborg
Chairman of the Netherlands Government Commission and
Program for Global Health Research (TBC)

Panelists
Bob Emrey
Chief Health Systems Division Global Health, USAID

Eva Jarawan
Sector Manager Health, World Bank, Africa Region

Alexander S. Preker
Head Health Industry and Investment Policy, IFC

Jeremiah Norris
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Bernard Merkel
Minister-Counselor, Head, Food Safety, Health and Consumer Affairs Section
European Union Delegation to the United States (TBC)

The Global Health Council, in collaboration with the World Bank/IFC and USAID, are co-sponsoring a roundtable discussion, "Development Assistance for Health during Economic Crisis." The discussion will feature a new report by the Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, "Financing Global Health 2010: Development Assistance and Country Spending in Economic Uncertainty," which shows that while funding for global health continues to grow, the economic slowdown appears to be contributing to a slowing of the rate of growth in development assistance for health. Country governments and private donors are driving the increases in development assistance for health. The US government and private donors in the US made up one-half of all funding in 2008. US-based NGOs have been hit hard by the economic downturn, and the amount of health funding spent by them decreased 24% from 2009 to 2010. Please join us for this timely and important discussion about recent trends, future prospects for development assistance for health and implications for private sector funding and service provision in low- and middle-income countries.

http://www.healthfinancingnews.com/events/development-assistance-for-health

Please join us for this timely and important discussion about recent trends and future prospects for development assistance for health. For more details on event and report see www.healthfinancingnews.com