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“YOGESH RAJKOTIA AND Meera chakravarthy - Business relationship”

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“(Expenses $ 215,058 including grants of $) To provide external technical assistance (TA) to the Government of Bangladesh as part of the Gates Foundation COVID-19 mitigation efforts, addressing both essential health services and COVID-19 response.”

“(Expenses $ 208,983 including grants of $) The Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) was research and learning network for increasing the visibility, availability, understanding and use of immunization delivery cost information. The ICAN worked with countries to build capacity around the generation of costing evidence and to improve the interpretation and translation of this data so that it is used in country decision-making processes and informs planning and budgeting.”

“(Expenses $ 206,731 including grants of $) The overarching objective for the Immunization Hub Grant is to generate high-quality economic evidence in the delivery of essential health services to priority groups, including COVID-19 vaccines. The Hub will bring together global and country level institutions to provide: (1) rapid economic evidence to support the sustainable roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines, (2) generate key economic evidence on the delivery and integration of essential health services to reach priority populations, and lastly (3) strengthen capacity at local research institutes to generate demand-driven and actionable evidence to inform improvements to the efficiency of essential health service delivery.”

“(Expenses $ 60,996 including grants of $) The fellowship seeks to identify and nurture young women from across the globe to co-create transformative global health projects with ThinkWell. Selected fellows will be part of a 12-month inaugural cohort designed to bring their interests and ideas to life. Fellows will work with ThinkWell experts and have access to cutting- edge resources to co-create a project idea in health systems, health advocacy, health policy, or health entrepreneurship. Leading global health experts from ThinkWell will serve as a mentor to each fellow, directing them through the entrepreneurial process and providing critical feedback along the way.”

“(Expenses $ 31,744 including grants of $) As part of the 'Scale-Up Cervical Cancer Elimination with Secondary prevention Strategy' (SUCCESS) project, funded by Unitaid, and delivered through a consortium approach led by Expertise France, UICC engaged ThinkWell as consultant. ThinkWell assessed the status of health financing for cervical cancer elimination in each of the four project countries: Guatemala, Philippines, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. ThinkWell also identified context-specific challenges, opportunities and practical steps that can be taken to drive forward progress.”

“(Expenses $ 12,560 including grants of $) to assess and describe the data used for day to day operational management of primary health case systems in Bangladesh and Uganda.”

“(Expenses $ 3,553 including grants of $) Exploring possible use cases for iFix to strengthen health financing to help low- and middle-income countries use digital infrastructure for public financial management to inform health financing reforms and, in turn, improve health system performance.”

“(Expenses $ 2,123 including grants of $) Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Costing to conduct robust and rapid COVID-19 vaccine delivery costing studies in 2-3 countries in order to improve budgeting and resource mobilization for vaccine roll-out.”

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