Curriculum Global Health Economics
Global Health Economics
How the world got healthier and who pays for it - global health aid, Gavi, the Global Fund, polio eradication, deworming evidence, health worker migration, clean cooking, maternal health and the race for pandemic vaccines.
- The Great Health Improvement How life expectancy and child survival improved dramatically across the world over the past century, and what drove the change. 📄 Read-aloud
- Who Pays for Global Health? How health is financed in low- and middle-income countries, the role of foreign aid, and what recent cuts in donor funding mean. 📄 Read-aloud
- Gavi and the Economics of Buying Vaccines Together How Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, pools demand to lower vaccine prices, and how advance market commitments encouraged companies to make vaccines for poor countries. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fighting HIV: The Global Fund and PEPFAR How the global response to HIV and AIDS mobilised billions of dollars, cut drug prices dramatically and saved millions of lives. 📄 Read-aloud
- Polio Eradication: The Economics of the Last Mile How India went from the world's polio hotspot to polio-free, why eradicating a disease can be worth its high final cost, and the challenges that remain. 📄 Read-aloud
- Deworming and the Search for Cost-Effective Aid How a famous study of school deworming in Kenya shaped ideas about cost-effective health interventions, and why its findings sparked a lively debate. 📄 Read-aloud
- Global Health Economics: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on health improvements, financing, Gavi, HIV and polio. 5 questions
- Health Worker Migration Why doctors and nurses move from poorer to richer countries, the costs and benefits for source countries like India, and efforts to manage the flows ethically. 📄 Read-aloud
- Clean Cooking and Household Air Pollution Why smoke from cooking fires is one of the world's biggest health risks, and what India's Ujjwala scheme teaches about the gap between access and use. 📄 Read-aloud
- Making Childbirth Safer How maternal deaths have fallen worldwide and in India, the role of incentives such as Janani Suraksha Yojana, and the remaining challenges. 📄 Read-aloud
- Does Better Health Make Countries Richer? How economists study the link between health and economic growth, from hookworm eradication to iodine supplements and demographic dividends. 📄 Read-aloud
- COVAX and the Race for Pandemic Vaccines Why poorer countries waited far longer for COVID-19 vaccines than rich ones, what the COVAX facility achieved, and what economists learned about sharing vaccines in a crisis. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Future of Global Health The big challenges ahead - aid cuts, chronic diseases, climate change and pandemics - and a recap of how economics guides global health choices. 📄 Read-aloud