Rockefeller Foundation Launches $100 Million Initiative to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa, Asia

In addition to promoting international research and advocacy, the initiative will advance a three-tier strategy designed to help create lasting, effective, measurable systemic health shifts at the country level. To that end, the foundation will work to enhance the professional capacity for stewardship of health systems by supporting leadership development, innovation in health, health policy and financing, and the collection of crucial data for planning and monitoring health system performance; leverage the capacity and innovation of non-state actors while enhancing the capacity of the state to regulate and contract the private sector; and support development of new partnerships and local capacity to build and leverage information technologies such as mobile phones and electronic health records.