Institute for Global Health Evaluations
Another major initiative of the Gates Foundation The Health Metrics and Evaluation Institute will be sited at the University of Washington in Seattle with a US$105 million core grant from the Gates Foundation over 10 years. The new institute fills a critical gap. The enormous political and financial attention now being paid to global health has not been matched by improved sources of information on the performance of health systems and new health programmes. This shortfall in knowledge is hampering efforts to create a favourable environment for investments in health. Worst of all, the evidence gap is harming work to improve the health of the most vulnerable populations in the world.