News
February 2010
PSP will be co-organizing a symposium on the role of the private sector in health systems at the iHEA congress in Toronto scheduled for July 2011. More information will come in the next few months.
October 2009
The Private Sector Symposium in Beijing, organized by PSP and others, was described as a "milestone as it was the first global meeting bringing together researchers interested in the private sector with the aim to map out what is known and promoting greater research interest and knowledge generation in this area for the benefit of health systems development" at an Expert Meeting on "Public-private cooperation to improve health care in low-income countries” held in The Hague - The Netherlands, 25 September 2009
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The report from the Private Sector Symposium in Beijing is now available for download under "programme publications".
September 2009
Gina Lagomarsino and Stefan Nachuk, co-organizers of the Private Sector Symposium in Beijing, together with colleagues have published a comment in The Lancet on Public Stewardship of Mixed Health Systems. The authors conclude that
"donors and national governments should focus on practical ways to address the realities of health markets, recognising the importance of public stewardship of mixed health systems as key to health and financial protection goals. To do this, they will need to engage in systematic collection of information, expansion of institutional capacity, and development of long-term policy roadmaps facilitated by national processes for policy dialogue that engage public and private actors."
The full comment can be downloaded on The Lancet website
August 2009
Results for Development, in collaboration with Rockefeller Foundation, launches a report titled "Public Stewardship of Private Providers in Mixed Health Systems. The report can be downloaded here.
