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Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Working Group Titles and Subject Areas
The CMH’s work on the different subject areas specified in the Commission’s Terms of Reference (TOR) is being undertaken by the six Working Groups. The titles of the Working Groups and their subjects are as follows:
Working Group 1
Health, economic growth, and poverty reduction
This work will address the expected impact of health investments on poverty reduction and economic growth. A presentation on the health-development-growth linkage will also be produced for dissemination among policy-makers. Preliminary results are already available. Co-Chairs are Sir George Alleyne (PAHO) and Professor Daniel Cohen (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France).
Working Group 2
International public goods for health
This group will address public policies to stimulate development of global public goods for health; communicable disease control, elimination, and eradication; and international institutions. The Working Group will draw on studies undertaken by agencies and academic institutions, including the Institute for Global Health (IGH), WHO units, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). It will focus on important international public goods for health and how they are provided and financed. Co-Chairs are Professor Richard Feachem (Institute for Global Health, University of California-San Francisco, USA) and Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard University, USA).
Working Group 3
Mobilization of domestic resources for health
This work will assess the economic consequences of alternative approaches to resource mobilization for health systems and interventions from domestic resources. This work will be done in collaboration with the IMF and other institutions. It will focus on how health systems can best be financed at country level, including by reallocation of public sector budgets and by expanding the role of the private sector. Ongoing work in the Evidence and Information for Policy (EIP) cluster of WHO will be an important input into this Working Group. Co-Chairs are Dr. Alan Tait (former senior IMF official) and Professor Kwesi Botchwey (Harvard University, USA, and former Minister of Finance, Ghana).
Working Group 4
Health and the international economy
This group will examine trade in health services, health commodities and health insurance; patents for medicines and Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs); international movements of risk factors; international migration of health workers; health conditions and health finance policies as rationales for protection; and other ways that trade may be impacting on the health sector. Ongoing work at WHO will be an important input into this Working Group. The Chair of this Working Group is Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia (Indian Center for Research in International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India).
Working Group 5
Improving health outcomes of the poor
This group will elaborate technical options and costs for mounting a major global effort to dramatically improve the health of the poor by 2015. It will examine interventions within and outside the health sector, and is expected to draw extensively on ongoing work within WHO, at the World Bank, and within international schools of public health. Co-Chairs for this Working Group are Professor Anne Mills (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) and Dr. Prabhat Jha (WHO).
Working Group 6
Development assistance and health
This group will review health implications of development assistance policies including modalities relating to economic crisis and debt relief. It will focus on the policies and approaches of international developmental agencies. One emphasis will be on the appropriate balance between country-specific work and support for activities that address international externalities or provision of international public goods. The assessment will include interventions outside the health sector, such as water supply, sanitation, population, nutrition, and environment. It will draw on ongoing work within WHO, the World Bank, international schools of public health, and research units of aid agencies. The Co-Chairs are Mr. Christopher Lovelace (World Bank), Mr. Zephirin Diabre (UNDP), and Ms. Carin Norberg (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency).
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