The WHO Council
The WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All aims to reframe health for all as a public policy objective, and ensure that national and global economies and finance are structured in such a way to deliver on this ambitious goal. The Council will aim to create a body of work that sees investment in local and global health systems as an investment in the future, not as a short-term cost. Read more
Strengthening public sector capacity, budgets and dynamic capabilities towards Health for All
30 June 2022
A key lesson of the Covid pandemic is that future preparedness critically depends on strengthening public sector capacity and budgets ...
Time-use data can clarify crucial inputs to Health for All
29 August 2022
This Council Insight expands on the importance of time-use data referred to in the Council’s Brief on “Valuing health for all” and is an extended version of the related article published in Think Global Health ...
Council Brief No. 3: Valuing Health for All: Rethinking and building a whole-of-society approach
8 March 2022
In the latest policy brief - on the value of health for all - the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All proposes three key objectives from the planetary to the individual scale ...
Council Brief No. 2: Financing Health for All: Increase, transform and redirect
26 October 2021
The world has been turned on its head by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This has provided a stark wake-up call on the severe under-financing of health systems around the world ...
Council Brief No. 1: Governing health innovation for the common good
9 June 2021
The Council has written this brief to focus on the governance of innovation, a critical building block of healthy economies, and lays out the key problems with the health innovation ecosystem and why radical changes are needed to ensure it delivers Health for All ...