An initiative by Global Policy Research Group

Our Mission

By enhancing the capacity of high-impact health advocacy organizations, we aim to accelerate progress on neglected global health issues. We build towards a future where talent is effectively mobilized and contextual knowledge is efficiently shared in order to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges.

The Problem

Global health has seen remarkable progress along many dimensions, yet relatively easily preventable diseases and treatable conditions still affect tens to hundreds of millions of people and unacceptable inequity in health outcomes persists.

In low- and middle-income countries, home to 80% of the world's population:

• Malaria claims 400,000 lives annually
• One in two children face dangerous lead exposure
• Antibiotic-resistant pathogens kill 1.2 million each year

For many of these issues, we know what works to solve them. However, implementation often lags behind knowledge. We could be doing more, faster.

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Our Approach

To accelerate progress on what matters, we will be:

1. Surveying high-impact organizations about their talent and capacity constraints
2. Analyzing organizations' and experts' input to identify the most critical skill gaps and regional talent needs
3. Building infrastructure needed to identify talented people, giving them the required training and pre-knowledge and connecting them to organisations already making significant progress against pressing health issues.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• What is the Global Health Policy Advocacy Fellowship?
• Who can apply for the Global Health Policy Advocacy Fellowship ?
• How can I express interest in the program?
• How can I contact the HPH team?
• Why focus on global health progress?
• Isn’t “global health progress” too broad? Do you have a specific focus area?
• Aren’t we already making a lot of health progress?
• What is your (current) plan?
• Which specific problems have you identified?
• LEEP, ARMoR and Fortify Health are already doing great work on your focus problems. Why aren’t you trying to fundraise for them instead of starting this thing?
• Truly neglected and talent-constrained problems likely don’t have organizations working on them. Won’t you focus on those?
• Are there any other efforts tackling these bottlenecks already?
• How will you know you are actually counterfactually impactful?

<aside> 🤝🏻 Help Us Out

We would appreciate your help in any of the following areas:

• Become a teaching fellow, lecturer or facilitator.
• Share your experience in Global Health Policy Advocacy by becoming an advisor (we also highly appreciate one-off advice) or apply to become ****a partner organization.
• Volunteer with us. </aside>

<aside> 📧 Stay Informed

Register to our e-mail list to stay updated on our Build in Public journey & program updates! Be the first to see our latest insights, progress, and upcoming resources for:

• Organizations wanting to create similar impact programs
• Stakeholders seeking a behind-the-scenes look at our work
• Individuals interested in joining or advancing their Global Health careers </aside>

<aside> 👤 Team

  **Berke** - Director

Martijn - Strategy Associate & Generalist

Ren - Communications & Community Manager

Bahadır Şirin - Advisor

Tony Senanayake - Advisor

Marie Firgau - Advisor

Gloria Rukomeza - Advisor

Munmun Biswas - Teaching Fellow

Sabin Subedi - Teaching Fellow

Meet the people behind HPH! ↙️

Our Team!

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