Center for Health Market Innovations
The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) is a publicly accessible global knowledge platform made up of a network of partners that seeks to improve the functioning of health markets in developing countries by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information AbOUT Health Market Innovations in developing countries. CHMI also works to create strategic linkages among key stakeholders.
Background and Partners
CHMI was established by the Results for Development Institute (R4D) with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While CHMI is centrally managed by R4D, IT Works with a number of partners on the ground including:
- ACCESS Health International, India, Bangladesh, Brazil
- BroadReach Healthcare, South Africa
- Consultation of Investment in Health Promotion, Vietnam
- Mercy Corps, Indonesia
- The Asia Foundation, Pakistan
- Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Philippines
- Institute of Health Policy, Management & Research, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
- Freedom from Hunger, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru (Andean Region)
CHMI Program Database
One of CHMI's main projects is to create a database of all new health innovations that are being implemented around the world. Anyone can enter programs into the database: CHMI partners, program implementers, researchers, etc. Once entered into the database, the programs are classified under five main categories through which they can be searched for:
- Country of Operation: The country in which the program is being implemented
- Program Type: Organizing Delivery, Financing Care, Regulating Performance, Changing Behaviors, and Enhancing Processes
- Health Focus: The specific disease that a program focuses on (e.g. HIV/AIDS, malaria) or the type of care (e.g. emergency care, primary care, etc.)
- Target Population: For example, children <5, the elderly, the disabled, ethnic minorities, etc.
- Target Geography: Rural, Peri-Urban, Urban, General
Additional Categories:
- Profile Status: Whether or not the profile has been deemed completed by a member of the CHMI team
- Legal Status:Whether the organization is private, government-run, non-profit, for-profit, etc.