Module 3 – Case

HEALTH SYSTEMS, FINANCES, AND GLOBAL HEALTH

Assignment Overview

Key Players and Partnerships in Global Health

Your supervisor, the president of a major nonprofit global health organization (you can use any of the ones mentioned in the PowerPoint under the Module Overview), told you she wants to partner with an organization in the United States (do some research to identify one) to address a problematic health policy related to children’s health.

Case Assignment

Your supervisor asks you to prepare a summary report showing: (1) Table of possible partner organizations, (2) description of each organization’s mission/vision/values/priorities, and (3) possible areas of collaboration related to children’s health.

Based on this summary report, select one of the organizations that seems most suitable, and write a formal letter to the select organization explaining to them why they should partner with your organization to tackle this issue.

The letter should include a description of the population and the health issue, how it relates to the other organization’s mission statement, the policy you want to change or enact, and the benefits of creating this partnership.

In order to earn full credit, this letter has to be persuasive.

Length: 2–3 pages (including table and letter).

Assignment Expectations

Assessment and Grading: Your paper will be assessed based on the performance assessment rubric. You can view it under Assessments at the top of the page. Review it before you begin working on the assignment. Your work should also follow these Assignment Expectations.

Module 3 – Background

HEALTH SYSTEMS, FINANCES, AND GLOBAL HEALTH

Required Reading

Frieden, T. R., & Damon, I. K. (2015). Ebola in West Africa—CDC’s role in epidemic detection, control, and prevention. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 21(11), 1897.

Van Pletzen, E., Zulliger, R., Moshabela, M., & Schneider, H. (2013). The size, characteristics and partnership networks of the health-related non-profit sector in three regions of South Africa: Implications of changing primary health care policy for community-based care. Health Policy and Planning, 29(6), 742–752.

Global Health TV. (2016, November 14). Strengthening health systems: USAID’s health finance and governance project. [Video file]. Available from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhU8qARftUM

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network. (2017). Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995-2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries. Lancet (London, England), 389(10083), 1981–2004. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30874-7

Dieleman, J., Campbell, M., Chapin, A., Eldrenkamp, E., Fan, V. Y., Haakenstad, A., … & Reynolds, A. (2017). Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries. The Lancet, 389(10083), 1981-2004.