Health innovation
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 香港六合彩中特网听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
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- The People's Precription policy report听(15 October 2018)
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Research project
Rethinking the economics of medical innovation
Funded by the Open Society Foundations
Learn more about health innovation research at IIPP.
Thought leadership
- Op-eds
Written by Mariana Mazzucato
- (Project Syndicate)
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- (The Economist)
- (The Guardian)
- (Newsweek)
- (Project Syndicate/Social Europe)
- (Project Syndicate)
- (Financial Times)
- (Project Syndicate/WEF; featured as one idea among the top 5 ideas of the day in the newsletter of the )
- (Project Syndicate/WEF)
- (The New York Times)
- (Project Syndicate)
- (The Guardian)
- (Project Syndicate)
- (The Washington Post)
- (The Times)
Written by IIPP听academic staff and collaborators听
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- 听(BMJ) by Els Torreele
- 听(STAT) by Els Torreele
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- 听(STAT) by Travis Whitfill
- 听(Newsweek) by Victor Roy
- 听(Institute for New Economic Thinking) by Rosie Collington
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- Media highlights
- (World Health Organization website)听
- (and on the Council on the Economics of Health for All staring from 9:00)
- (The Washington Post)
- (CNN)
- (BBC World News)
- (CoronaNomics)
IIPP news stories
- News stories
- Leading economists and health experts call for radical rethinking to put health at centre
- Leading economists and health experts call for radical economic redirection to put health at centre
- WHO Council on Economics for Health for All calling for health innovation to be governed by common good
- Global experts of new WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All announced
- IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato to chair new WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All听
- Pope Francis cites work of IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato in latest book
- Leading medical innovation and access policy expert joins IIPP听
- Data driven innovation expert Carol Sinclair joins IIPP
- IIPP applies an analytical lens to the COVID-19 crisis in a new series of public briefs
- IIPP launches a new global engagement series: Public purpose in the time of COVID-19
- IIPP selected to take part in Vatican COVID-19 Commission鈥檚 Economy Taskforce
- Living healthier or living longer? IIPP responds to the grand challenge of an ageing society
- Health innovation: creative approaches to improving access to medicines globally
- Labour Party draw on IIPP health innovation research for new pharma policy
- IIPP and the British Library partner on new 2019 lecture series, "Innovation and the Welfare State鈥
- The People's Prescription report calls for a transformation of the health innovation system
- Blogs
- 听by Henry Lishi Li
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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