What is EVIPnet?

Overview

For more than a billion more people to benefit from universal health coverage, a billion more to be protected from health emergencies and a billion more to improve their overall health, each WHO member state will need to create or take advantage of opportunities for doing better. For each opportunity, politicians will need to be convinced that there’s a compelling problem, a viable policy, and conducive politics. And technical staff will need to understand the nature of the problem and its causes, cost-effective policy options to address the problem, key implementation considerations, and how to approach monitoring and evaluation.

Experts in data analytics have key roles in understanding problems (e.g., their scale and trajectory) and monitoring the implementation of policies. But the best available evidence – both local studies and global synthesized data and research evidence – and the systematically elicited insights of key stakeholders will help to round out understandings of problems, to inform choices about policy