Health
Healthy lives are the foundation for sustainable development. Universal access to health services, strong health systems, and investment in treatments and services underpins development across the spectrum of human life, from industrial economic growth and climate resilience to effective education and strengthened governance.
Our health work is focused on some of our most pressing and urgent challenges. We produce compelling evidence of what works to improve people’s sexual, reproductive and maternal health, including in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
We work to strengthen health systems and global health security, including the fight against global pandemics and to eliminate neglected tropical diseases. We work with global health organisations as a partner and critical friend, so that they can improve their impact and outcomes of their programmes.
Project
Evaluation of the 2016-2021 Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF)
The establishment of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in 1996 represented a key step in a broader...
Project
Evaluation of Adolescents 360
Adolescents 360 (A360) is a four-year initiative (2016 – 2020) to increase adolescent girls’ access to and demand for...
Project
Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND)
Neglected Topical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of infectious diseases that thrive in poor and often rural settings, affecting...
Project
Fleming Fund Independent Evaluation Supplier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global crisis that has the potential to reverse a century of progress in Public Health....
Publications
Report
Approaches to support the delivery of self-managed medication abortion during COVID-19 – WISH COVID-19 Learning Brief #2
Global health emergencies have a significant indirect impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights, by interrupting...
Report
UNHCR Country Portfolio Evaluation: Iraq
This report relates to an independent evaluation of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Country...
Report
UNHCR Country Portfolio Evaluation: Angola (2016-2019)
This report relates to an independent evaluation of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) country operation...
Report
Adaptive programming for global health security programmes
Lessons from the Public Health England International Health Regulations Strengthening Project
Blogs and news
Blog
Handwashing and COVID-19: The role of data in improving hygiene promotion
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the importance of thorough handwashing to the fore in global efforts to curb the spread of...
Blog
Fairness beyond the race: Four questions for COVID-19 vaccine equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented response from the international community to address what will happen when a...
Blog
Building partnerships for global change: Lessons from the China-UK Global Health Support Programme
China is at the centre of many current debates about global governance and will play an important role in global affairs in...
Blog
Access to SRH services for persons with disabilities: mapping the evidence
A growing body of evidence shows that persons with disabilities have historically been denied their SRH (sexual and...