Dina Balabanova

Powerful message by @keithmartinmd on the #InternationalAntiCorruptionDay today. Health sector corruption is often neglected, yet it harms health and equity, and depletes resources. Have your say & join our call to action: #TheLancetGHCommissionAnticorruptionHealth @H_S_Global

🇧🇬🇪🇺 Earlier this week, I visited Bulgaria – soon to become the 21st country in the euro area. It was a great opportunity to meet with Governor Radev and other colleagues to discuss Bulgaria’s exciting path ahead.

Pleased to present our work on informal payments for healthcare in Kenya. To reduce the additional financial burden from informal payments, there is a need to address inadequacies and weaknesses in health system financing and governance #AfHEA2025

Volunteer labour has become the go-to for understaffed health facilities in Nigeria. @Aloysius_Odii & @charlesorjiakor discuss the precarious situations of these volunteers & connections to accountability issues. @eleanor_hutch provides a comparative lens using Uganda. #AfHEA2025

Dr @pamela_ogbozor of @HPRG_Nigeria provides supportive evidence that current accountability structures in primary health facilities have been ineffective. Rethinking these systems by paying attention to uniqueness of contexts and cohesion of actors shows promise. #AfHEA2025

Brilliant initiative, very impressive effort to talk about corruption on a state wide Nigerian radio. Incredible to hear listeners calling with their reflections and ideas of what can be done! @H_S_Global @anticorruption

BREAKING NEWS: Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas has split with his party to admonish the reckless and illegal shutdown on USAID: Moran says the aggressive change at the USAID office shut down left $340 million in lifesaving food grown in the United States sitting at domestic ports, waiting to be delivered to various destinations where people are STARVING. "Time is running out before this lifesaving aid perishes," Moran said. "Food stability is essential to political stability, and our food aid programs help feed the hungry, bolster our national security and provide an important market for our farmers, especially when commodity prices are low." This is not a democratic vs. republican issue. This is a humanitarian issue! Thank you Senator Moran for speaking out!

African countries will ultimately have to become less dependent on external donors and "prioritise domestic funding to the health sector and efficient public finance management". nature.com/articles/d4414…

Congratulations for your excellent work Runcie! We all have to learn from your hard work as patient advocate!

Health system scholars produce many evidence that can meet health needs of society. However, restrictive communication in academia is a barrier. But the media can help. Our research presents a new framework of “two credibilities” for evidence translation link.springer.com/article/10.118…

@HPRG_Nigeria has released its 2024 health sector roundup. It’s the second in two years, providing summaries of progress for the health sector and expectations heading into 2025. hprgunn.com/hprgs-health-s… @muhammadpate @Muyi_Aina @NHIAnigeria @SWApGov @Fmohnigeria @FCDOResearch

@TMirzoev Congratulations Augustina! Best wishes for successful next steps!

Great and well deserved recognition, really pleased to hear this Augustina! 👏👏🏿👏🏻

Pleased our #realist analysis of maternal mental health ⁦out @HPP_LSHTM⁩ Great lead ⁦@lyevooLucy⁩! ⁦⁦@eleanor_hutch⁩ ⁦@IreneAgyepong⁩ ⁦⁦@sumitkane⁩ ⁦@ana__manzano⁩ ⁦@DinaBalabanova⁩ ⁦@VeronikaReichen⁩ academic.oup.com/heapol/advance…

Great to lead jointly with @IreneAgyepong the partnership between @GhCoPS @LSHTM @Ashesi @ucao_uub @lasdel_labo - reflecting the collaborative nature of the #HPSR and values of @H_S_Global 🙏 @NIHRglobal for support

The #HSR2024 was a success and raised questions for reflection and learning. Looking forward to sustaining and hopefully extending our continued and much valued partnership @GarryAslanyan! 🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻

Understanding context specific drivers of informal payments is crucial when developing strategies to address them. Our research work examined demand-side, supply-side and contextual factors influencing informal payments at public health facilities in Kenya #HSR2024

Informalities in recruiting and managing health workers in Nigeria - these open space for divergent coping strategies & often personal benefits for managers. Public PHC centres are often run to serve private interests @Aloysius_Odii @HPRG_Nigeria @eleanor_hutch @AgwuP @TMirzoev

We need to go beyond the national level, study informal dynamics in subnational bureaucracy to trace the incentives. We need 'corruption free' PHC for UHC @AgwuP @HPRG_Nigeria @H_S_Global @eleanor_hutch @pamela_ogbozor @dav3c1arke @JuliaSallaku #accountabilityinaction

Retrouvez-nous à #HSR2024 @H_S_Global pour une série de présentations par @NIHRWAfrCentre @Ashesi @GhCoPS @lasdel_labo @LSHTM @ucao_uub et écoutez la recherche sur les #NCDs AI et soins de santé, l'accès aux soins de santé mentale, la médecine traditionnelle, la co-production