Institutionalizing Explicit National Health Priority Setting

This course focuses on processes used by countries to set health priorities that are reflected in national health policies. The course will review, among other topics:

• Why priority setting and linking priorities to plans and budgets matters.
• What is meant by institutionalizing explicit national priority setting, what elements a priority setting process is comprised of and the development of a framework to improve priority setting.
• How to engage stakeholders throughout the process, with country examples and references to tools for identifying and engaging stakeholders.
• What steps and approaches can be taken to help build stakeholder buy and consensus.

This course is an interactive, five module online self-study course; each module allows participants to engage with the materials and reflect on their own country’s context.

Course Structure

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Priority setting cycle

Module 3: What can countries do to institutionalize stakeholder engagement throughout the priority- setting process?

Module 4: What can countries do to align plans and budgets?