On Monday, April 20, DCP3 Series Editors Dr. Dean Jamison and Dr. Rachel Nugent presented at the Ministerial Forum for Finance Ministers, hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Jamison opened the session with an overview of DCP3 and a discussion on promising approaches to universal public finance. Dr. Nugent followed with a discussion on policy levers designed to make national health budgets more efficient. She presented case studies from Mozambique, Thailand, and the Pan American region.
Meeting attendees included finance ministers from 12 different nations, Harvard faculty members, and global health experts.
About the Ministerial Leadership in Health Program:
The Ministerial Leadership in Health (MLIH) Program is a joint initiative of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School in association with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the GE Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Learn more at the program's website.
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| DCP3 series editor Dean Jamison provides an overview of the DCP3 volumes to the group of finance ministers. | DCP3 Series Editor Rachel Nugent discusses getting value for money in purchasing health at the Harvard ministerial forum on April 20, 2015. |