Aspen Global Health and Development

What We Do

GHD mission:
Identify, assess, and support highly innovative strategies for global health and poverty alleviation.

As a legacy program of Realizing Rights, GHD will continue and grow Realizing Rights' Global Health Equity Program. GHD will also continue programs in the following areas:  the global health workforce crisis, policy innovations to address the challenges of global health worker migration, women’s global health including maternal mortality and reproductive health, community based models of financing for health, aid effectiveness in development assistance for health, and advancing smallholder commercial agricultural production in Africa to promote food security and trade.

Our Current Programs:

• Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
• Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI)
• Health Worker Migration Initiative
• TransFarm Africa Initiative

Our Past Programs:

• Health System Strengthening for Equity

Our Program Goals:

• Support public sector leadership in health in the developing world
• Assess and promote global policy innovations to address challenges of health worker migration
• Address the health workforce crisis through north-south cooperation in education and training, expanded models of task shifting, and new cadres of health workers
• Create sustainable community-based health financing mechanisms that increase access to equitable and quality health care
• Promote policy reform and innovative approaches to reproductive and maternal health for women and girls
• Demonstrate the efficacy of integrated approaches to global health and poverty
• Promote small and medium scaled, pro-growth policies on agriculture, trade and investment throughout the African continent with specific focus on Africa’s Development Corridors
• Advance “Transformative Agriculture”, the missing middle of sustainable agricultural development, practices and standards

Our Approach:

• Build health governance and leadership capacity at the national government level
• Provide independent forums for high level north-south policy dialogue on critical issues in global health and poverty
• Assess and promote community based health insurance and other innovative financing mechanisms
• Promote integration of reform in reproductive health into broader national policies
• Champion government led and owned priorities that focus on innovations to increase access to quality health care
• Create opportunities for peer learning and regional sharing for national leaders on reforms and innovations in health and poverty
• Assess and promote integrated, cross-sectoral strategies to address poverty reduction, health and development
• Provide opportunities for developing country leaders to effectively participate in global policy dialogue
• Develop and advance a demand-driven approach to trade and development
• Promote regional economic integration through support for Africa’s development corridors
• Develop Partnerships among public and private institutions with a role to play in agricultural development and food security