About GHE2

Founded in 2017, GHE2 is a three year collaboration between four world-leading research institutes (CHE, CHEPS, FIPE and PRICELESS SA), which aims to establish “what works” in global health.

Project Aims

Our core objective is to address the major evidence gap in impact and value-for-money evaluations of health interventions, to improve health outcomes in LMICs (low- and middle-income countries).

We apply state-of-the-art empirical methods to existing but under-exploited data sources to assess average population health impact and distributional effects. This allows us to establish both whether interventions work overall, and whether health outcomes for the poorest and most vulnerable improve more than those of the rich.

Assessing impact alone, however, is insufficient to inform decision-making at country level or by international organisations. With budget constraints, governments are forced to make difficult choices among many effective interventions. Consequently, in addition to evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, we also assess the value-for-money they offer (economic evaluation). This constitutes a critical, and currently underdeveloped, link between evidence and decision-making in the context of budget constrained choices.

“GHE2 focuses on producing high quality, policy-relevant evidence about population- and health system-level interventions which are hard to evaluate using randomised controlled trials but have the potential for large impacts on health and wellbeing. This helps fill a critical evidence gap by applying and developing methods to estimate the impact of such interventions, and assess their value-for-money.”

Marc Suhrcke | Professor of Global Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, York | GHE2 Principal Investigator

Project Partners

Research is being conducted collaboratively by leading research institutions in four partner countries: Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

All partners work closely with local policy-makers in the development and communication of research and findings in efforts to inform key areas of policy and generate direct benefits for population health.

Institute of Economic Research Foundation (FIPE) Brazil

Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Brazil

The Institute of Economic Research Foundation - FIPE is a nonprofit private sector organisation founded in 1973 to support the Economics Department of the School of Economics, Administration and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo (FEA-USP).

It develops important activities in education, projects, research and development of economic and financial indicators in Brazil. FIPE studies social and economic phenomena based on theoretical and methodological economic instruments with the purpose of offering its contribution to the public debate on social and economic problems in Brazil.