Presenter:  Joshua Salomon, PhD
“Re-tooling cost-effectiveness analysis for global health relevance”
Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

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To identify priorities for action in global health, decision makers need information on the potential impact, costs and cost effectiveness of different possible choices regarding health technologies and interventions. A large volume of cost-effectiveness analysis has been produced to try to meet this need, but its impact on policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries has evidently been limited. In this seminar we will explore some possible reasons for the relatively modest policy impact of cost-effectiveness analysis in global health and propose directions for re-thinking the approaches and methods that are commonly used in the field. Drawing examples from our recent and ongoing research in areas such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and maternal and child health, we will describe an agenda to pivot the practice of decision science in global health toward a more systematic approach to comparative strategy evaluation.