Donor support for Health Policy and Systems Research: barriers to financing and opportunities for overcoming them

The vast investments that have been made in recent decades in new medicines, vaccines, and technologies will only lead to improvements in health if there are appropriate and well-functioning health systems to make use of them. However, despite the growing acceptance by major global donors of the importance of health systems, there is an enthusiasm gap when it comes to disbursing funds needed to understand the intricacies of how, why and when these systems deliver effective interventions. To understand the reasons behind this, we open up the black box of donor decision-making vis-à-vis Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) financing: what are the organizational processes behind the support for HPSR, and what are the barriers to increasing engagement?

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Kentikelenis, A., A. Ghaffar, M. McKee, L. Dal Zennaro & D. Stuckler (2022) Donor support for Health Policy and Systems Research: barriers to financing and opportunities for overcoming them. Global Health 18, 106 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-022-00896-4