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Annual report 2024
The Alliance supported 68 grants across 17 projects in 43 countries and territories. This year’s report focuses on how this work are having an impact, looking at how the Alliance projects are contributing to change across five dimensions.
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All →Areas of focus
Transforming health systems
Supporting countries by generating evidence and supporting locally driven change to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through strengthening systems and services based on a primary health care (PHC) approach.
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Harnessing digital health
Supporting research to understand how digital health – including artificial intelligence – can enhance service delivery, empower users and support better decision-making, helping countries integrate digital health into national systems.
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Preventing noncommunicable diseases
Supporting research to prevent premature death and disability from NCDs, focusing on primary prevention, commercial determinants, and fiscal measures like health taxes to advance health equity.
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Strengthening climate resilience
Integrating health into climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, helping countries identify actions, and bridging the gap between health systems and climate action.
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Preparing for and responding to emergencies
Supporting research on governance of public health agencies and service delivery in conflict settings to build resilient systems in fragile and protracted crisis environments.
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Aligning knowledge ecosystems
Shifting from individual training to institutional engagement, systems change and policy-maker involvement to build research ecosystems that connect evidence to policy, especially in under-represented contexts.
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All →In 2024, the Alliance began implementing its new strategy, Aiming for impact (2024-2028). Around the world, we have advanced work in each of our focus...
As countries face growing health financing cliffs due to declining external aid and mounting domestic fiscal pressures, the risk of reversing hard-won...
This case study examines country-level primary health care (PHC) systems in Uruguay. The case study is part of a collection of case studies providing critical...
30 September 2024
Health policy and systems research for improving vaccine uptake in low- and middle-income countries
The agenda on improving vaccine uptake is not new. Yet, persistent and emerging challenges threaten the significant public health gains that vaccination...