Strengthening Health System Foundations
Strengthening Health System Foundations
Our people-centered approach ensures that those with whom we work are the drivers of progress and will lead their own way to optimal, equitable, and quality health systems.
![Health clinic in Afghanistan](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/WhatWeDo1-_HOS5330.jpg)
We strengthen health systems as a means of addressing key health challenges, achieving universal health coverage, and ultimately improving population health. We improve health system functions through policy and practice changes that increase access, coverage, quality, and/or efficiency of health services, leading to better health outcomes in the countries where we work.
![A pharmacist in a medicines stock room](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Pharmacist-Falisy-Lule-in-the-medicines-stock-room-at-Kiruddu-National-Referral-Hospital-in-Uganda_Photo-credit-MSH-1-1024x683.jpg)
Systems Thinking for Health
We put systems thinking into practice to strengthen health systems.
![Two health practitioner reviewing some data](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Midwife-Noëlzafy-receives-on-site-mentorship-and-supportive-supervision-under-USAIDs-ACCESS-Health-Program-photo-credit-MSH-1-1-1024x682.jpg)
Data, Health Information, and Measurement
We bring data to bear on every decision.
![A mother and her child sit under their bednet](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/A-mother-and-child-under-their-bed-net-e1639503629891-1024x713.jpg)
Primary Health Care
We provide integrated, whole-person care for health needs.
![Health clinic in Afghanistan](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/WhatWeDo1-_HOS5330.jpg)
Human Resources for Health
We help countries develop the right training, tools, and resources needed for a successful health workforce.
![U.S. PMI-S team members meet with the leadership](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/covid1-1024x683.jpg)
Leadership, Management, and Governance
Our programmatic work consistently demonstrates that investments in improved management, leadership, and governance produce tangible results and impact on health.
![Woman pharmacist in Ethiopia](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Woman-pharmacist_Ethiopia-1-1024x681.jpg)
Pharmaceutical and Supply Chain Management
We improve access to medicines and people-centered services through strong global health supply chains.
![Smiling nurse](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_2124-flipped-1024x753.jpg)
Health Care Financing
We work with countries to allocate financial resources for health and increase access to quality services through evidence-based and sustainable health financing strategies.
![Midwife vaccinates a man during a COVID-19 vaccine campaign](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Midwife-vaccinates-a-man-during-a-COVID-19-vaccine-campaign-in-Madagascar_Photo-credit-Samy-Rakotoniaina_MSH-1-1-1024x682.jpg)
Product and Health Technology Optimizations
We ensure that countries have the tools to determine the value of health technologies to promote an equitable and efficient health system.
Technical Experts
![Tiwonge Mkandawire Badze](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Square-1024x1024.jpg)
Tiwonge Mkandawire Badze
Senior Principal Technical Advisor, Health System Strengthening
![Rene Berger](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TechExp_Rene_Berger.png)
René Berger
Senior Technical Director and Practice Area Lead for Pharmaceutical Systems Strengthening and Supply Chain Systems
![Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Senior Technical Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy and Engagement, and Integrated Health Care](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TechExp_Amy_Boldosser-Boesch.png)
Amy Boldosser-Boesch
Senior Technical Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy, and Engagement and Integrated Health Care
![Jane Briggs](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TechExp_Jane_Briggs.png)
Jane Briggs
Senior Principal Technical Advisor, MTaPS Program, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
![Seydou Doumbia](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TechExp_Seydou_Doumbia-1.png)
Seydou Doumbia
Technical Strategy Lead, MTaPS Program, Francophone Africa
![Colin Gilmartin, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Care Financing](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TechExp_Colin_Gilmartin.png)
Colin Gilmartin
Principal Technical Advisor, Health Economics and Financing
![Headshot of Tamara Hafner](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Hafner-985x1024.jpeg)
Tamara Hafner
Senior Principal Technical Advisor, MTaPS Program, Research
![Kate Henderson, Senior Technical Advisor, Leadership, Management, and Governance at MSH](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TechExp_Kate_Henderson.png)
Kate Henderson
Technical Director and Cluster Lead for Leadership, Management, and Governance
![Jacob Hughes](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DSC_2405-1-819x1024.jpg)
Jacob Hughes
Senior Technical Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Systems
![Mohan Joshi](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TechExp_Mohan_Joshi.png)
Mohan P. Joshi
Senior Principal Technical Advisor, MTaPS Program, Pharmaceutical Services and Global Health Security Agenda
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