PUBLIC HEALTH: Felix Abrahams Obi: ‘A Sense Of Urgency Is Needed To Improve Health Systems And Health Outcomes’

His dedication to promoting health policy and systems research has seen him rise to represent the African continent on the board of Health Systems Global (HSG), an organization of diverse professionals dedicated to promoting health policy and systems research and knowledge generation. Felix Abrahams Obi advocates for a change in the culture of budgeting for inputs in the health sector. He believes focus should shift to performance and results in order to improve Nigeria’s poor health outcomes and indices.

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2021

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SPARC

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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…