ACCESS Health Shortlisted for Global Development Network Award
The ACCESS Health Philippines office was one of three organizations shortlisted for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development 2019 by the Global Development Network. The main theme of the award is “Doing research in developing countries: the role of non-academic actors, new …
ACCESS Health Philippines Launches New Global Health Emerging Leaders Program
The Philippines team launched a new Global Health Emerging Leaders program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China in June. The program was inspired by a Global Health Course originally launched in 2015 by ACCESS Health Philippines Country Director, Don Prisno. In recognition …
ACCESS Health Philippines Launches New Tuberculosis Program
The ACCESS Health Philippines team is working in close partnership with Community Health Solutions on a new public private partnership that will bring much needed tuberculosis counseling, screening, diagnostic testing, and treatment to a select city in Metropolitan Manila. The eighteen month pilot project is …
ACCESS Health 2016 Annual Report
We are delighted to be releasing our Annual Report for 2016. Last year was a year of significant growth and expansion for ACCESS Health. We expanded our activities across India, China, and the Philippines and strengthened our work in Singapore and the United …
Aging Asia and the Pacific: Developing Long Term Care Systems and Effective Responses
ACCESS Health International recently participated in the Asian Development Bank conference on aging in Asia. The conference, entitled Aging Asia and the Pacific: Developing Long Term Care Systems and Effective Responses took place in late June in Manila. The regional conference brought together distinguished …
Influencing Policy Development in the Philippines
ACCESS Health Philippines is an adviser to the Philippines Department of Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau and the Health Facility Development Bureau. The Philippines Department of Health formulates policies, sets standards, and defines rules and regulations for every health program and …
Corporatizing Public Hospitals in the Philippines
The ACCESS Health team in the Philippines is finalizing the first phase of its nationwide study mapping the status of corporatizing public hospitals. ACCESS Health has worked with the Department of Health to identify public hospitals that have initiated or fully implemented …
Fiscal Devolution and Redesign of Health Spending: Understanding the Health Financing Environment in India
On December 16, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India and the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy are bringing together key voices from India and across the world to an open dialogue on health financing in India, in …
Digital Strategies for Development: Innovative Solutions and Inclusive Growth
The ACCESS Health Philippines team was recently invited to speak at the Digital Strategies for Development Summit. The summit provided an opportunity to share and learn about information and communications technology (ICT) solutions that address emerging challenges in education, employment, gender equality, …
The Sustainable Development Goals: Translating Ambition Into Action
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a renewed and revitalized global effort to come together and face our common human challenges. There is so much to applaud about both the how and the what of these new goals. …
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