ThinkWell Institute

The strategic purchasing for primary health care (sp4phc) project aims to improve how governments purchase primary health care services with a focus on family planning and maternal, newborn and child health. The five sp4phc countries - burkina faso, indonesia, kenya, the philippines, and uganda - like many countries around the world, are trying to figure out how best to engage and pay healthcare providers in order to improve access to high quality primary health care services while containing costs. Our country-based teams are working with public purchasers - national health ministries, sub-national health departments, and health insurers - to make more deliberate decisions about what services to cover, which providers to contract, and the payment methods and rates to use, with the goal of improving health.

ThinkWell aims to improve the performance and productivity of health facility professionals. Leveraging ThinkWell's human resources for health (HRH) and health systems expertise, we support the Ministry of Health (MoH) to improve health workers' performance by (i) testing new approaches and models for health worker allocation, (ii) contributing to the design of a strategy to improve performance, motivation, and management through a performance based financing mechanism appropriate to the national context and MoH objectives, and (iii) through a comprehensive site management approach, strengthen primary health care facility management to more efficiently and effectively meet changing service demands.

to support strengthening of Mozambique's COVID-19 response and essential health services continuity.

To provide external technical assistance (TA) to the Government of Bangladesh as part of the Gates Foundation COVID-19 mitigation efforts, addressing both essential health services and COVID-19 response.

The Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) was research and learning network for increasing the visibility, availability, understanding and use of immunization delivery cost information. The ICAN worked with countries to build capacity around the generation of costing evidence and to improve the interpretation and translation of this data so that it is used in country decision-making processes and informs planning and budgeting.

The overarching objective for the Immunization Hub Grant is to generate high-quality economic evidence in the delivery of essential health services to priority groups, including COVID-19 vaccines. The Hub will bring together global and country level institutions to provide: (1) rapid economic evidence to support the sustainable roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines, (2) generate key economic evidence on the delivery and integration of essential health services to reach priority populations, and lastly (3) strengthen capacity at local research institutes to generate demand-driven and actionable evidence to inform improvements to the efficiency of essential health service delivery.

The fellowship seeks to identify and nurture young women from across the globe to co-create transformative global health projects with ThinkWell. Selected fellows will be part of a 12-month inaugural cohort designed to bring their interests and ideas to life. Fellows will work with ThinkWell experts and have access to cutting- edge resources to co-create a project idea in health systems, health advocacy, health policy, or health entrepreneurship. Leading global health experts from ThinkWell will serve as a mentor to each fellow, directing them through the entrepreneurial process and providing critical feedback along the way.

As part of the 'Scale-Up Cervical Cancer Elimination with Secondary prevention Strategy' (SUCCESS) project, funded by Unitaid, and delivered through a consortium approach led by Expertise France, UICC engaged ThinkWell as consultant. ThinkWell assessed the status of health financing for cervical cancer elimination in each of the four project countries: Guatemala, Philippines, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. ThinkWell also identified context-specific challenges, opportunities and practical steps that can be taken to drive forward progress.

to assess and describe the data used for day to day operational management of primary health case systems in Bangladesh and Uganda.

Exploring possible use cases for iFix to strengthen health financing to help low- and middle-income countries use digital infrastructure for public financial management to inform health financing reforms and, in turn, improve health system performance.

Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Costing to conduct robust and rapid COVID-19 vaccine delivery costing studies in 2-3 countries in order to improve budgeting and resource mobilization for vaccine roll-out.