1. Strengthening Health Systems Through Research, Education, and Action Global Health Council Satellite Session Health System Strengthening: What is Everyone Doing? June 13, 2011 Professor Michael R. Reich Harvard School of Public Health

2. 1. Strengthening Health Systems Through Research 2 HSPH - HEALTH SYSTEMS On all major topics of Health Systems, with a disciplinary focus on Political Economy: Health Systems (Roberts, Hsiao, Berman, Bossert , Reich) Health Financing (Hsiao, Yip, Berman) Health Management & Human Resources (Roberts, Bossert, Bärnighausen, Berman) Justice and Human Rights (Daniels and Gruskin) Pharmaceutical Policy (Reich and Roberts) Decentralization (Bossert) HIV/AIDS (Bärnighausen) Randomized Trials of Interventions (J. Cohen)

3. 2. Strengthening Health Systems Through Education 3 HSPH - HEALTH SYSTEMS Many different levels of education: Harvard-WorldBank Institute Flagship Program on Health System Strengthening Doctoral Concentration on Health Systems at HSPH MS/MPH training in Global Health at HSPH Executive Education courses at HSPH (quality, decentralization, human resources, strategic planning) New Harvard Leadership Program for Ministers of Health

4. 4 The Harvard-Flagship Health Reform Approach From: Marc J. Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, and Michael R. Reich: Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, p. 27 HSPH - HEALTH SYSTEMS

5. 5 The Harvard-Flagship Health Reform Approach:Core Concepts From: Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, and Michael R. Reich: Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, p. 27

6. Doctoral Concentration in Health Systems 6 HSPH - HEALTH SYSTEMS

7. 3. Strengthening Health Systems Through Action Collaboration with all major actors in the global health arena: National governments: Support for public policy analysis, including the design, implementation, and evaluation of major health reform efforts (China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico) International agencies: Analytical research, strategic planning, implementation research; including WHO, World Bank, UNFPA, UNAIDS, and UNICEF Non-governmental agencies: Applied research, advocacy planning, design of public-private partnerships HSPH - HEALTH SYSTEMS 7

9. Bill Hsiao and Winnie Yip: Project enhancing TB control in a large scale social experiment in rural China

10. Marc J. Roberts: Harvard Egypt Executive Management Program, to improve management skills and practices in Egyptian Ministry of Health

11. Marc Mitchell: Founder of D-Tree, which uses smart-phone technology to support point-of-care diagnosis and treatment

12. Norman Daniels: Improving priority setting (accountability for reasonableness) in countries in Africa, Europe, and Latin America