better define its role in an increasingly crowded and complex global health architecture, says Jennifer Prah Ruger, health …

public goods for global health, particularly for those disadvantaged by destitution and disease. The WHO Global Strategy and … Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (GSPOA), adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2008 …, calls for an “enhanced and sustainable basis for needs-driven, essential health research and development relevant to …

Development aid for health increased dramatically during the past two decades, raising concerns about inefficiency and … lack of coherence among the growing number of global health donors. However, we lack a framework for how donor … proliferation affects health program performance to inform theory-based evaluation of aid effectiveness policies. A review of …