Brookings: Experts - Amanda Glassman

Health Systems Strengthening Via Performance-Based Aid

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In the global health arena, performance-based aid projects have increased in recent years. Global health experts examine recent experiences with these projects and analyze lessons for policymakers.

Accounting for Health Spending in Developing Countries

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Data on health system financing and spending, together with information on the disease prevalence and cost-effectiveness of interventions, constitute essential input into health policy and is particularly critical in developing countries. Brookings Nonresident Fellow Amanda Glassman, along with fellow health specialists Dorota A. Raciborska and Patricia Hernández, offers a history of health spending measurement, describes alternative sources of data, and recommends improving international collaboration and advocacy with the private sector for the way forward.

Politics, and Public Health Policy Reform

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In an article for the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Brookings Scholar Amanda Glassman and Kent Buse, Research Fellow from the Overseas Development Institute, review the major theoretical treatments of politics in the health sector in developing countries and provide examples of common issues that have emerged in the study of the politics of public health policy reform.

Innovative Financing for Global Health: Tools for Analyzing the Options

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With numerous new tools for financial global health aid, how should governments and donors examine and prioritize the options? Brookings global health experts examine the options and proposal a framework to help guide aid decisions.

Smooth and Predictable Aid for Health: A Role for Innovative Financing?

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The amount and frequency of aid for global health projects can be volatile and uncertain, further complicating efforts to maintain programs and services. In a new working paper, Amanda Glassman and Chris Lane examine how innovating health financing might help make global health aid more predictable.

Will Health Aid Take a Hit During a Recession?

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

As the reauthorization of PEPFAR builds bipartisan support on the Hill, the next five year infusion may reach 50 billion dollars for the fight against HIV/AIDS. At the same time, current economic turmoil has the propensity to diminish aid flows for health and contribute to the often short-term and volatile nature of health financing. Amanda Glassman analyzes the relationship between health aid and economic recession and the consequential depletion of government spending in developing countries.

Planning and Costing Human Resources for Health

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Human resources are crucial for the provision of health care and represent the largest single use of public spending on health in developing countries. Yet countries face an ongoing challenge when it comes to financing human resources for health (HRH) sufficiently to sustain an adequate supply of health workers and stimulate greater productivity and more effective health care. This article discusses ways to improve the effectiveness of HRH financing policies in developing countries.

Better Aid for AIDS Treatment: The Promise of Endowment Funds

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The continuity and sustainability of global health financing continues to be a major challenge in the fight to stem HIV/AIDS, particularly in developing countries. Brookings Global Health expert Amanda Glassman examines country-based endowment funds as one innovative financing mechanism that could help alleviate this ongoing problem.

Global Health Views: Donor Perspectives on Innovative Financing

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On October 22, 2007, representatives of development aid agencies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands were joined by ministry officials from Rwanda and Liberia at Brookings to discuss the role that innovative financing plays in donor health aid portfolios and how to assess whether new instruments add value in a crowded health aid landscape.

La protección social en salud al frente de las políticas de reducción de la pobreza

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by Amanda Glassman (2/15/07)

Top Ten Global Economic Challenges: An Assessment of Global Risks and Priorities

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Top Ten Global Economic Challenges Report by Global Economy and Development (February 2007)