Health Systems Innovation Lab
The Health Systems Innovation Lab is a global research and training lab that specializes in health system performance, health policy, and venture creation.
677 Huntington Ave,
Boston, MA 02115
Building 1, 11th floor
Innovative Financing
The Health Systems Innovation Lab has led several seminal studies that focus on innovative financing and uses the evidence generated to engage organizations, governments, and ventures to develop sustainable financing mechanism to enable the delivery of more effective, efficient, and responsive health services in major priority areas, including among others, surgery, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS, and Malaria.
Scientific Publications
Use of social impact bonds in financing health systems responses to non-communicable diseases: scoping review.
There is an interest to understand how social impact bonds (SIBs), a type of innovative financing instrument used in impact…
Innovative financing to fund surgical systems and expand surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries.
Strong surgical systems are necessary to prevent premature death and avoidable disability from surgical conditions. The epidemiological transition, which has…
Innovative financing instruments for global health 2002-15: a systematic analysis.
Development assistance for health (DAH), the value of which peaked in 2013 and fell in 2015, is unlikely to rise…
Innovative financing for HIV response in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2015 around 15 million people living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustained provision of…
Innovative financing for health: what is truly innovative?
Development assistance for health has increased every year between 2000 and 2010, particularly for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, to reach…