Results List
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Transforming Global Health Through Hope, Health, Action and Knowledge: Lessons from the Largest Continuing Education Programme in Public Health in Africa
Source: Marian Jacobs
This report describes how with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies, the School of Public Health at the University of Western Cape (UWC) became a leading training institution for practitioners who today are advancing health equity in South Africa. Prior to the formal establishment of the…
Resource type: Research Report
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Connecting Practice, Policy and Partners: Lessons for Advocacy Initiatives in Rural Health from the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP)
Source: Dr. Waasila Jassat
This report discusses the impact of the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), a South African organization created in 2009 to advocate for the health care needs of people living in rural areas. Lessons from RHAP’s activities will be useful to both public health funders and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Laying the Foundation for Public Health in Viet Nam
As Viet Nam aspires to greater economic development, the health of its citizens is of primary importance to achieve and sustain growth. For a country with limited resources, good health can only be attained when there are sensible population health policies for allocation of resources…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Social Justice Journalism: Lessons from Health-e News
Source: Barbara Klugman
This report examines how quality advocacy journalism from Health-e News, a South African nonprofit news service focused on the country’s delivery of public health services, is helping advance the goal of achieving a healthy, equitable and just nation. Health-e News, which was founded in 1999, came to prominence…
Resource type: Research Report
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First, Treat the System: The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Effort to Promote Health and Equity in Viet Nam
Source: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
Atlantic’s efforts to improve public health and primary health care in Viet Nam are benefiting the country’s 80 million people, according to this new report. The scope of work has resulted in replicable models of care in urban centres and rural provinces. While less than…
Resource type: Research Report
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Medicaid Works: A Review of How Public Insurance Protects the Health and Finances of Children and Vulnerable Populations
Source: Leighton Ku and Christine Ferguson
This report, commissioned by First Focus and funded by Atlantic, describes the success of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in increasing health insurance coverage among children; strengthening access to medical, health and developmental services; and safeguarding the finances of low-income families and individuals.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Strengthening Schools of Health To Improve National Health
The University of the Western Cape was established in 1959, during the days of apartheid, as a university for students classified as belonging to the “coloured” population of South Africa. During the past 30-plus years, the university has had a varied political, financial and academic…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Treating the Primary Health Care System
Ca Lon with her daughter. Photo: Save the Children “The doctor saved my life,” declared Ca Lon, recalling how, after delivering her first child, she experienced profuse bleeding that put her life at risk. Luckily, Ms. Lon was in a district hospital in Khanh Hoa…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Path to a People-Centered Health System
Source: Community Catalyst
Millions of Americans now have access to health coverage and care, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. But the health care system in the United States is still notable for its variable quality, inefficiency, high costs, health inequities and lack of responsiveness to the needs…
Resource type: Research Report
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Strengthening Evidence-Based HIV Health Care: Lessons for Advocacy Movements and Funders
Source: Dr. Waasila Jassat
This report describes how the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHIVCS) has helped South Africa combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic by serving as a trusted source of information for government officials and medical practitioners about how to deliver high-quality, cost-effective treatment. Although South Africa has more…
Resource type: Research Report