Capability Building

One of our core priorities is to contribute towards strengthening health economics capability in Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa, in order to support better health policy decision making.

To achieve this, we employ three broad strategies to guide GHE2’s activities, and maximise our capability building reach and impact.

1. CO-RESEARCH AND MOBILITY FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS

GHE2 represents a community of researchers and we strive to generate an environment of shared learning and opportunities.

BUILDING A STRONG RESEARCHER NETWORK

Capacity strengthening: We have appointed three new early-career researchers to work directly on GHE2 and increase the research capacity across all four GHE2 partners.
Knowledge exchange: The ‘GHE2 Webinar Series’ has been established to encourage knowledge exchange and collaborative input from all GHE2 researchers.
Research visits: GHE2’s early-career researchers are encouraged and supported to undertake extended research visits to other GHE2 partners to work collaboratively and develop strong, long-lasting partnerships.

PROVIDING PHD AND MSC OPPORTUNITIES

PhD students: Three PhD students have been appointed to work directly on GHE2. They provide a valuable contribution towards research activities, and are provided with the opportunity to develop partnerships and collaborate with researchers from across the globe.
MSc students: MSc students from across all four partners are involved directly in GHE2 research, including basing their theses on their GHE2 work.
Supervisors: GHE2 has provided first-time supervisor opportunities for a number of researchers.

2. TRAINING AND MENTORING

We are commitmented to using GHE2 research to inform existing and future training in health economics, as well as harness our collective expertise to support the next generation of global health researchers.

SHORT COURSES

Bespoke short training courses for researchers, students and policy-makers are being developed and delivered by GHE2 researchers, and include data and results from GHE2 research. For example: a course on “Econometric Policy Analysis Methods” is to be delivered by the South Africa (PRICELESS SA) team in 2019.

STUDENT MENTORSHIP

MSc students are provided with opportunities to work closely alongside GHE2 researchers to practice their skills. The GHE2 project team provide collective and one-on-one mentorship to these students. For example: the ‘Summer MSc Placement’ scheme with the UK (CHE) team sees MSc economics students carrying-out independent projects under supervision by GHE2 researchers; and the Brazil (FIPE) team provide dedicated thesis mentoring to MSc students working on GHE2.

3. DISSEMINATION AND Shared LEARNING

The project team use GHE2’s results to help equip policy-makers with the data and skills required to make informed policy decisions, and contribute towards improving the global community’s understanding of how health economics methods can contribute towards addressing pressing health challenging in low- and middle-income country settings.

ENHANCING HEALTH ECONOMICS TRAINING

MSc courses: GHE2 researchers are using their emerging findings, methods and data to inform new and revised MSc courses delivered at their home institutes. For example, the Indonesia (CHEPS) team have enhanced the Universitas Indonesia MSc course “Applied Health Econometrics” to incorporate GHE2-informed materials.
Training materials: The Indonesia (CHEPS) team are using their GHE2 research to produce a textbook to address an identified training need: “Management and Analyses of BPJS Health Claim Database using STATA 14”.

ENGAGEMENT WITH POLICY-MAKERS

National Policy Forums: The Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa teams each convene a forum of national policy- and decision-makers to consult on the GHE2 impact evaluation studies. The forums meeting regularly to share emerging results and discuss the latest health policy context changes or priorities.
Policy briefs: GHE2 makes efforts to communicate its results in an accessible manner to meet the needs of policy beneficiaries.

ADVANCING THE GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH FIELD

Academic publications: We are committed to producing quality publications in high-impact academic journals.
Conference participation: GHE2 researchers frequently engage with the global community to share their researcher and contribute towards the national-/ international-level conversations about global health policy.

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