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Strengthening Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care

SP4PHC aims to improve how governments purchase primary health care services, with a focus on family planning and maternal, newborn, and child health. SP4PHC is supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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USAID Health Financing Activity

In Indonesia, ThinkWell leads USAID’s Health Financing Activity (HFA), a five year $15M contract awarded in 2019. HFA is a technical assistance project designed to strengthen local capacity in financial analyses, stakeholder engagement, learning, and decision-making. We support the Ministry of Health’s leadership and vision to improve financial protection, equitable access to quality health services, and health outcomes.

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Leveraging Evidence on Immunization Delivery Costs

ThinkWell leads a three year project focused on increasing the visibility, availability, understanding, and use of evidence on the cost of delivering vaccines. The project is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Sustainable Financing for Immunization

ThinkWell seeks to improve sustainable immunization financing in countries across the globe. This project is supported by Merck & Co., Inc.

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Oncology Financing: Evidence from Country Experiences to Inform the Global Challenge

ThinkWell’s oncology financing research shows how countries are confronting financing challenges in oncology and what more can be done in the policy and financing environment to increase access and improve cancer outcomes.

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Boosting Efficiencies for Clinical HIV Outcomes in Mozambique

ThinkWell provides the Mozambican government with data, measured findings, and recommendations to make service delivery decisions that help achieve HIV epidemic control.

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Enhancing Essential Services Provision During and Beyond Covid-19 in Bangladesh

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ThinkWell’s Bangladesh team implements the “Enhancing Essential Services Provision for Universal Health Coverage (EESPUHC), in the context of Covid-19 activity,” which supports the Government of Bangladesh to prioritize and execute on planning and investments for regularizing and improving access to essential health services.

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Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Health

To inform world leaders at the G20 Summit in November 2020, ThinkWell assessed innovative finance in health in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This was the first time since 2011 that a comprehensive, major review of innovative finance for health has been conducted.

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Protecting Vulnerable Populations in the Philippines

In the Philippines, UNFPA contracted ThinkWell for the project, “Support to the DOH in Evidence-based Policies to Protect Vulnerable Populations: Mapping Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Funds Flow and Evidence Generation for the COVID-19 Response.”

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MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery (MPHD)

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery (MPHD) seeks to strengthen private provider contributions to vital health care. ThinkWell serves as the technical lead on health financing for sustainability of private sector service delivery.

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Health Policy Plus (HP+) in Mozambique

We support the Government of Mozambique strengthen health programs and policies aimed at improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.

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Advancing Social Protection to Support the Covid Response in Bangladesh

Through an Asian Development Bank-funded project, we support the Government of Bangladesh to improve and develop relevant policy actions with a focus on the response to the Covid-19 crises. We also support the ADB to prepare relevant policy actions for the ADB’s social protection program.

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U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in Nigeria

As part of a consortium of implementing organizations for the USAID-funded President’s Malaria Initiative for States (PMI), ThinkWell leads the delivery of health financing and institutional strengthening interventions across eight states in Nigeria. The PMI project is designed to contribute to Nigeria’s national malaria elimination program’s vision of a “malaria-free Nigeria.” The project is also […]

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Advancing Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the USAID-funded Achieving Universal Health Coverage (AUHC) project is transforming the nationwide Smiling Sun network of 399 clinics into a consolidated pro-poor social enterprise: the Surjer Hashi Network (SHN).

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Covid-19 Essential Health Services & Response Coordination in Mozambique

We provide technical assistance to Mozambique’s Ministry of Health’s (MoH) Directorate for Planning and Coordination (DPC) to strengthen the MoH’s management of its Covid-19 response and the continuity of essential services during the pandemic.

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Strengthening Primary Health Care Provision in the Philippines

In the Philippines, ThinkWell helps to develop a primary care competency certification framework and a tool to certify primary care health workers.

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Improving Human Resources for Health in Mozambique

We designed a human resources for health allocation tool to support the Ministry of Health to improve health workers’ performance in Mozambique.

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Improving Essential Health Services in Myanmar

ThinkWell provides health financing and human resources for health support to strengthen health system governance in Myanmar.

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Advancing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in Mozambique

ThinkWell provided insight on the potential barriers and incentives for the private sector’s contribution to primary health care access in Mozambique.

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Leveraging Public Financial Management for Better Health

In a webinar series, we shared knowledge on how to reform budgets and make them work better for universal health coverage.

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Demand and Use of Health Policy and Systems Research in Mozambique

ThinkWell identified strategies for demand generation and use of health system research to inform health policy.

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Vale a Pena

In Mozambique, the Vale a Pena project (“it’s worth it” in Portuguese) aims to transform how rural Mozambican girls aged 10-19 perceive and access modern contraception. Vale a Pena’s objective is to create an enabling environment that increases demand for modern contraceptives and results in additional family planning (FP) users in rural areas.

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Improving the Last Mile Health Supply Chain in Mozambique

ThinkWell helps to improve the last mile health supply chain in Mozambique to develop a more streamlined and effective distribution system.

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African Platform on Health Systems Policymaking

ThinkWell developed a network of African institutions to improve the uptake of evidence and research in health systems policymaking.

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Outsourcing Non-clinical Health Services in Mozambique

We explored how Mozambique’s health sector could partner with the private sector to provide non-clinical health services.

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Health Workforce for the 21st Century

The Health Workforce for the 21st Century (HW21) Program supports high HIV burden countries to meet UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 goals.

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Developing a Model for Tuberculosis Testing and Treatment

ThinkWell developed a feasibility assessment and design for a community-based model to identify, screen, and treat Tuberculosis-positive miners and their families.

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Monitoring health sector progress in Bangladesh

ThinkWell coordinated and oversaw the 2012 annual program review (APR) of Bangladesh’s heath sector. This 18-person, three-month intensive review assessed seven key aspects of the health sector, from public financial management to urban health.

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Configuring Strategic Purchasing for Family Planning

ThinkWell explored how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could harness strategic purchasing to improve the delivery of affordable family planning services in the DRC.

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Strengthening Health Policy and Systems Research

We presented a model, recommendations, and an investment case for the Rockefeller Foundation to support the development of a sub-Saharan African network for health policy and systems research.

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Analyzing Costs of Clustered Randomized Control Trials

ThinkWell researched and analyzed the cost-drivers of clustered randomized control trials (CRCTs) in various settings.

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Supporting Reproductive Maternal Health in Mozambique

ThinkWell provided support to DFID Mozambique to develop the agency’s next five year health strategy to significantly impact Reproductive and Maternal Health (RMH).

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Assessing the Private Sector in Indonesia

ThinkWell performed an assessment to re-envision maternal and newborn health in Indonesia and explore how the private sector and civil society can ignite change.

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Health Labor Market Analysis in Malawi

We helped Malawi to develop the health workforce needed to end preventable maternal and child deaths, support family planning goals, control the HIV epidemic, and protect communities from infectious diseases.

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Assessing Health Inequity in Jordan

ThinkWell supported the High Health Council of Jordan with health systems research to assess health inequity in Jordan, especially as it relates to children and adolescents.

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Assessing the Supply Chain for HIV Test Kits in Mozambique

ThinkWell conducted a comprehensive supply chain system assessment to identify the bottlenecks and leakages of HIV rapid test kits.

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Transitioning from Foreign Aid Reliance

ThinkWell supported the UHC2030 working group on sustainability and health systems strengthening. We collected country experiences on health system challenges and opportunities that transition from foreign aid reliance.

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Strengthening Research and Evaluation for HIV Programming

ThinkWell conducted a study on human resources for health to help achieve national HIV targets. We also strengthened capacity around country-led evaluations for HIV programming.

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Advancing Public-Private Partnerships in Kenya

With support from the ILO and FSD Kenya, ThinkWell assessed the readiness of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to engage in PPPs.

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Improving Health Finance and Governance in Jordan

We leveraged provider payment, strategic purchasing, and health insurance to improve efficiency and equity in Jordan.

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Improving a maternal and child health voucher system

ThinkWell identified strengths and bottlenecks to improve Madagascar’s maternal and child health voucher system.

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Bottlenecks to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

ThinkWell conducted an analysis to identify bottlenecks to achieving universal health coverage in selected countries from the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region.

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Strengthening Health Financing in Haiti

With ThinkWell support, Haiti’s Ministry of Health strengthened its systems and capacity to receive and harmonize direct funding and to contract out health care services.

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Advising Universal Health Coverage Strategies

ThinkWell provided high-level strategic advice to the leadership of the ministries of health in Nepal and Myanmar on pathways to achieve Universal Health Coverage.

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Expanding Social Health Insurance in Zambia

ThinkWell provided technical assistance to the government of Zambia in its efforts to implement social health insurance. We also provided technical support to the Zambia Poor People’s Federation.

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Designing National Health Insurance Program in Liberia

ThinkWell worked with Liberia’s Ministry of Health and Social Work (MOHSW), Ministry of Finance (MoF) and Legislature to design Liberia’s first national health insurance program.

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Investing in RMNCAH in Mozambique

ThinkWell is supporting the Mozambican Ministry of Health to develop their national health financing strategy.

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Advancing Joint Donor Technical Assistance in Bangladesh

ThinkWell provided technical expertise, analysis, and managerial and logistical support to a Joint Donor Technical Assistance Fund (JDTAF) in Bangladesh. JDTAF participants hailed from a wide range of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies.

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Strengthening Participatory Governance Across Africa

ThinkWell studied methods to strengthen participatory governance in Africa.

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Launching Results-based Financing in Tanzania

ThinkWell supported the Tanzania Ministry of Health to design and implement their national results-based financing (RBF) program.

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Performance-based Financing in Mozambique

ThinkWell implemented and evaluated Mozambique’s first HIV and MCH-focused performance-based financing (PBF) program.

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Increasing Health Insurance Coverage in the Philippines

ThinkWell supported the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to identify nontraditional private-sector strategies to reach uninsured workers employed in the informal sector.

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Public Financial Management of Primary Education in Bangladesh

ThinkWell provided on-going fiduciary risk monitoring for sector budget support donors of the Third Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP3) in Bangladesh.

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Improving Results-based Financing Programs

ThinkWell undertook a global review of quality of care in 25 results-based financing (RBF) programs to create a database of quality of care checklists, an analysis of trends, and detailed case studies.

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Scaling SBCE Interventions for Reproductive Health

ThinkWell developed an investment case to scale SBCE interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health (RMNACH).

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Strengthening Health Sector Governance Reforms in Laos

ThinkWell provided technical support to the government of Laos to produce, use, and institutionalize health account data to inform health sector reform.

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Strengthening Maternal and Child Health in Pakistan

ThinkWell conducted an analysis to determine how innovative financing mechanisms could improve health systems performance in Sindh Province, Pakistan.

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Strengthening Health Systems in Haiti

ThinkWell worked inside the USAID/Haiti mission as their lead technical expert in health systems strengthening.

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Strengthening Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care

Strengthening Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care

Strengthening Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care

USAID Health Financing Activity

USAID Health Financing Activity

Leveraging Evidence on Immunization Delivery Costs

Leveraging Evidence on Immunization Delivery Costs

Sustainable Financing for Immunization

Sustainable Financing for Immunization

Oncology Financing: Evidence from Country Experiences to Inform the Global Challenge

Oncology Financing: Evidence from Country Experiences to Inform the Global Challenge

Boosting Efficiencies for Clinical HIV Outcomes in Mozambique

Boosting Efficiencies for Clinical HIV Outcomes in Mozambique

Enhancing Essential Services Provision During and Beyond Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Enhancing Essential Services Provision During and Beyond Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Health

Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Health

Protecting Vulnerable Populations in the Philippines

Protecting Vulnerable Populations in the Philippines

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery (MPHD)

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery (MPHD)

Health Policy Plus (HP+) in Mozambique

Health Policy Plus (HP+) in Mozambique

Advancing Social Protection to Support the Covid Response in Bangladesh

Advancing Social Protection to Support the Covid Response in Bangladesh

U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in Nigeria

U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in Nigeria

Advancing Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

Advancing Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh

Covid-19 Essential Health Services & Response Coordination in Mozambique

Covid-19 Essential Health Services & Response Coordination in Mozambique

Strengthening Primary Health Care Provision in the Philippines

Strengthening Primary Health Care Provision in the Philippines

Improving Human Resources for Health in Mozambique

Improving Human Resources for Health in Mozambique

Improving Essential Health Services in Myanmar

Improving Essential Health Services in Myanmar

Advancing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in Mozambique

Advancing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in Mozambique

Leveraging Public Financial Management for Better Health

Leveraging Public Financial Management for Better Health

Demand and Use of Health Policy and Systems Research in Mozambique

Demand and Use of Health Policy and Systems Research in Mozambique

Vale a Pena

Vale a Pena

Improving the Last Mile Health Supply Chain in Mozambique

Improving the Last Mile Health Supply Chain in Mozambique

African Platform on Health Systems Policymaking

African Platform on Health Systems Policymaking

Outsourcing Non-clinical Health Services in Mozambique

Outsourcing Non-clinical Health Services in Mozambique

Health Workforce for the 21st Century

Health Workforce for the 21st Century

Developing a Model for Tuberculosis Testing and Treatment

Developing a Model for Tuberculosis Testing and Treatment

Monitoring health sector progress in Bangladesh

Monitoring health sector progress in Bangladesh

Configuring Strategic Purchasing for Family Planning

Configuring Strategic Purchasing for Family Planning

Strengthening Health Policy and Systems Research

Strengthening Health Policy and Systems Research

Analyzing Costs of Clustered Randomized Control Trials

Analyzing Costs of Clustered Randomized Control Trials

Supporting Reproductive Maternal Health in Mozambique

Supporting Reproductive Maternal Health in Mozambique

Assessing the Private Sector in Indonesia

Assessing the Private Sector in Indonesia

Health Labor Market Analysis in Malawi

Health Labor Market Analysis in Malawi

Assessing Health Inequity in Jordan

Assessing Health Inequity in Jordan

Assessing the Supply Chain for HIV Test Kits in Mozambique

Assessing the Supply Chain for HIV Test Kits in Mozambique

Transitioning from Foreign Aid Reliance

Transitioning from Foreign Aid Reliance

Strengthening Research and Evaluation for HIV Programming

Strengthening Research and Evaluation for HIV Programming

Advancing Public-Private Partnerships in Kenya