Gerald Bloom is a physician and health economist. His special interest is the management of health system transition in the context of rapid social and economic change. Areas of particular focus include the changing roles of government, health system innovations processes of institutional development.
The Mutual Learning for Mixed Health Systems platform supports and encourages experimental learning processes to build consensus on socially desirable, equity-led policies and actions for the management of change in pluralist health systems. The platform is a growing partnership, so far...
Background The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened existing social, health and nutritional inequities and highlighted common challenges facing marginalised and racialised communities in cities across the Global North and South. It has also driven new social innovations and cross-sector...
This Evidence and Learning Initiative was a cooperation with the Prosperity Fund (PF). It helped to ensure that in the current context of COVID-19, changes to the existing PF portfolio (and investments in new ones) are informed by and contribute to the evidence base on how the pandemic is...
The IDS China Centre, part of the IDS International Initiatives, provides research focus on a country transforming global geopolitics due to its strategic importance, role in the global south and its commitment to development. It recognises that tackling universal challenges such as climate...
This year, World Health Day marks 76 years since the World Health Organisation (WHO) was founded. The theme for 2024 is “my health, my right”. The message comes in light of recent health disasters such as famine, conflict and dangers created by climate change to health. Looking back...
5 April 2024
In complex and rapidly changing health systems and societies, there are no realistic transferable blueprints to guide countries’ strategies for accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Instead, governments must work with a range of actors through innovative partnerships...
21 September 2023
The refresh of the UK Integrated Review makes clear the UK is reappraising its relationship with China. The latest iteration gives more emphasis to diplomacy, dialogue and engagement. There is a need to think through how the UK engages China on a range of ‘global challenges’. This blog...
23 May 2023
In an address to the 2022 World Antimicrobial Resistance Congress in Washington D.C. in September, Xavier Becerra, United States Secretary for Health and Human Services, described antimicrobial resistance as “…the second punch [after Covid-19] that gets those who are least prepared, the most...
27 September 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has re-emphasised the need to ensure equitable access to safe, effective and affordable health services. The very rapid shift to the use of smartphone apps and telephone consultations (telemedicine) has highlighted the potential impact of digital innovations on the...
1 June 2023
Novos Estudos CEBRAP;vol.38 no.2
Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the centre of these challenges is the question of accountability: who can...
1 May 2019
The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Amref Health Africa and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have agreed to collaborate in an effort to explore ways that technological innovations can contribute to government strategies for making progress towards universal health coverage...
14 December 2018
It is critical that ensuring people’s access to effective treatment for common infections is aligned with efforts to reduce the risk of emerging antimicrobial resistance. The Institute of Development Studies, a Future Health Systems partner, is influencing policy agendas to give greater focus...
10 October 2018
Since the publication of the 2004 World Development Report, a range of different attempts have been made to make the design, prioritisation and delivery of health services more accountable to different stakeholders. However, complex politics and power dynamics can limit or skew people’s...
10 October 2018
Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases. We generate new evidence and analysis on nutrition issues including dietary transition, globalisation of food systems, and responding to the ways that...
How can we leverage the transformational potential of these innovations and accelerate progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage in low and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa?
17 April 2018
The Universal Health Coverage Forum 2017 (12 – 15 December) in Tokyo sees leaders, donors, civil society, health providers and academics, including researchers from IDS, come together to agree the best way forward to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of health for all by 2030.
11 December 2017