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Pandemic Funds, Public Goods for Health, and the Future of Global Health Financing

Grant number: 352690

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Key facts

  • Disease

    Disease X

  • Start & end year

    2025.0
    2028.0

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $1,057,284

  • Principal Investigator

    .

  • Research Location

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Health Systems Research

  • Research Subcategory

    Health service delivery

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Global health financing initiatives such as the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (Act-A) - which brought together the leading established global health initiatives - have been well studied and criticized for their failure to support national public health system priorities and for promoting, among other things, predominantly technical, vertical, competitive or donor-tailored solutions. Against this backdrop, new global and regional financing mechanisms have emerged, intended to address the shortcomings of established global health initiatives and promote comprehensive and sustainable approaches to future pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (pandemic PPR). These include the Global Pandemic Fund hosted by the World Bank, and the Africa-region-focused Africa Public Health Foundation (APHF) headquartered in Kenya, and the Africa Epidemics Fund (AfEF) hosted by the Africa CDC, the independent continental health institution of the African Union (AU). PANDFUND will examine how these newly established global health financing mechanisms for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response work in practice. We will do so by assessing their distinctive claims to a) promote global pandemic PPR by strengthening domestic health systems and capacities; a) catalyze co-investments from domestic and private sources; and c) generate new sources of funding. PANDFUND is a research collaboration between research institutions in Norway, Kenya, Ethiopia, and India. These include the Department of Health and Society at the University of Oslo, the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Oslo, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kenya, the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and the OP Jindal Global University in India. The project is funded with 12 million kroner from the Research Council of Norway and will be led by the Department of Health and Society, University of Oslo.