The Global Financing Facility's Managing Markets for Health (MM4H): A Core Course for Health Policy Practitioners
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The role of private healthcare providers, distributors, retailers and other actors in health systems has grown significantly in the past 20 years. Consequently, market forces influence the healthcare systems of developing countries more than ever before. Still, many countries are struggling to devise strategies to effectively influence healthcare markets and engage private providers.
Have you felt frustrated by the challenge of influencing healthcare markets through policy action? Are you unsure how to effectively include private sector partners in your national health strategy? Do you want to support policymakers to better understand and establish dialogue with private entities - but are unsure about how? Are you interested in pursuing public-private partnerships, but are unsure where to start? Then this course is for you!
We welcome you to take our course: Managing Markets for Health (MM4H): A Core Course for Health Policy Practitioners. This is available as an online course, and will run March 19-30, 2018.
This course is delivered through instructor-led learning and self-study, and is targeted at health policy practitioners working in low- and middle-income countries. It introduces participants to the Managed Markets for Health (MM4H) approach for systematically analysing, designing and implementing policies to steer private actors to contribute to sustained health and equity outcomes.
The course has been designed and is delivered by world-leading experts on private sector health policy with a mix of academic and practical experience. Faculty will guide you through concepts and case studies that showcase the challenges of implementing policies to bring about change in a health market system. For those with unreliable internet connections, course material can be downloaded. The course is instructed in English but all the materials will also be available in French.
The online course will be followed by a face-to-face workshop for a limited number of individuals, in which multi-stakeholder teams will be guided to put the learning from the online modules to more practical use in defining specific private sector engagement strategies suited to their country context.
*No fees or tuition are required. You should expect to spend about 10 hours on course work in each of the two weeks of the course. Following successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate.