Health Systems Initiative Publications

Publications

Clinical Social Franchising: An Annual Compendium of Social Franchise Programs, 2009
The Global Health Group, May 2009

Clinical Social Franchising: Summary Statistics
The Global Health Group, September 2009

Social Franchising Case Study Series: BlueStar Marie Stopes International Ghana
The Global Health Group, September 2009

Public-Private Investment Partnerships in Developing Countries Health Systems Strengthening
Report and proceedings of the 909th Wilton Park conference, co-hosted by the UCSF Global Health Group and The Healthcare Redesign Group, 9-11 April 2008

Journal Articles

Legislation, regulation, and consolidation in the retail pharmacy sector in low-income countries
Richard F Lowe, Dominic Montagu, Southern Med Review Vol 2 Issue 2, September 2009

Supporting Private Healthcare in Developing Countries: The GHG Debates Oxfam in the British Medical Journal
Dominic Montagu et al, BMJ, April-July 2009

Retail pharmacy chains: setting standards for quality and price
Dominic Montagu, Id21 Health, 8 June 2009

Oxfam must shed its ideological bias to be taken seriously
Dominic Montagu, Richard Feachem, Neelam Sekhri Feachem, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Heather Kinlaw, Richard Smith
Rapid Response, BMJ, 5 March 2009

The fallacy of impartiality: competing interest bias in academic publications
Richard Smith, Richard Feachem, Neelam Sekhri Feachem, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, and Heather Kinlaw
J R Soc Med 102(2): 44-45; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.080400, 1 February 2009

Is Private Health Care the Answer to the Health Problems of the World's Poor?
The PLoS Medicine Debate led by Richard Smith and Anne Mills, November 2008