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To value health as a human right and prevent crises like COVID-19, we need an economic shift. This involves viewing health financing as an investment, aligning investment, innovation, and growth with the aim of promoting human and planetary health.

This has been the focus of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All.听The Council was established in 2020 by听Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General, WHO) to provide new economic thinking 鈥撎齬eassessing how health and wellbeing are valued,听 produced and distributed across the economy. The Council was chaired by听, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value听and Founding Director of the 果冻影院听Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose,听and composed of an all-female group of 10 distinguished economists听and area experts.听

The Council has focused on听reimagining how to put 鈥淗ealth for All鈥� at the heart听of government decision-making and private听sector collaboration at regional, national and听international levels.听Watch the听short video to learn more about the recommendations in its final report,听,听on what is needed to reorient the economy around the goal of 鈥淗ealth for All.鈥澨�

IIPP鈥檚 applies a market co-creating and shaping framework to set out alternative policy approaches to redefine health innovation and create symbiotic innovation ecosystems, which is firmly rooted in the concept of public value and the common good. IIPP鈥檚 work in health, exemplified by the flagship report 鈥�The People's Prescription: Re-imagining Health Innovation to Deliver Public Value鈥�, has generated policy impact both at high level policy discussions across the world.

Policy engagement highlights

Engagements with the World Health Organization (WHO)

• On 8 March 2022, leading economists and health experts call for radical rethinking to put health at centre
• On 26 October 2021,
• On 8 June 2021, WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All called for health innovation to be governed by the common good.
• On 6 May 2021, Director Mariana Mazzucato chaired the first meeting of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All. Its initial 11 members are distinguished experts in economics, health, government, finance and development from around the world.
• On 13 November 2020,听World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appoints IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato to chair new .
• On 29 May 2020, IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato speaks at the launch of the and endorses the Solidarity Call to Action to 鈥渞ealize equitable global access to COVID-19 health technologies through pooling of knowledge, intellectual property and data鈥�.

• On 6 September 2020, The United State on the critical role of the public sector in innovation in health and beyond.
• On 14 May 2020, IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato joined听more than 140 world leaders and experts, including the President of South Africa and Chair of the African Union, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, the President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall and the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in calling for a against Covid-19.
• On 1st September 2019, IIPP鈥檚 health innovation report, 鈥楾he people鈥檚 prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value鈥�, inspired听the Labour Party鈥檚 2019 pharmaceutical policy document, 鈥樷��.
• On 18 December 2018, IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato supported听the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act introduced by US Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Jan Schakowsky to .听

Publication highlights

Publications

• 听(23 May 2023)
• (19 April 2022)
• (8 March 2022)
• 听(26 October 2021)听
• 听(9 June 2021)听
• The People's Precription policy report听(15 October 2018)

Research project

Rethinking the economics of medical innovation

Funded by the Open Society Foundations

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Contact

For more information on our work in health innovation policy, please utilise the email address to听contact us听below:
Email:听iipp-dircos@ucl.ac.uk