Setting Health Sector Priorities: A Brief Overview of Ethiopia's Experience

This interactive web portal, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), explores the multidimensional nature of poverty around the world. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures poverty across three dimensions—health, education, and living standards—and uses 10 indicators such as lacking access to clean water, adequate nutrition, or primary education. This web portal allows users to explore each of these 10 indicators through illustrative, media-rich country cases.  

This resource pack provides a curated set of peer-reviewed articles that represent the growing evidence base for decision making and priority setting in Ethiopia - with an emphasis on improving health, reducing inequity, and preventing health-related impoverishment. Curated by Dr. Stéphane Verguet at the Center for Health Decision Science, most of the papers reflect work done as part of the Disease Control Priorities-Ethiopia (DCP-E) project.  The pack provides scholarship that spans maternal-child health, vaccine-preventable disease, infectious…

In collaboration with multiple regional centers through the Harvard Global Studies and Outreach Project, this resource pack was created to support the 2021 global studies workshop for high-school educators on “Dis/Misinformation: Perspectives and Pedagogies for Educators in the Post-Truth Era.” The pack accompanied the panel of “Misinformation and Public Health,” which examined the devastating effects of dis-information on public health, or “info-demic,” that has exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis. Through a public health lens, the following…