Table 2.

Unit of analysis: GHPs

While the ‘Global Health Partnership’ classification covers a diversity of arrangements, and often inconsistently, for the sake of this paper we cite Buse and Harmer18 who describe “relatively institutionalized initiatives, established to address global health problems, in which public and private-for-profit sector organizations have a voice in collective decision-making.” They conclude that it is the GHPs’ innovative approach to shared decision-making among multisectoral partners that distinguishes the GHP from other global health initiatives. The majority of GHPs fall into two main groups: product development partnerships and product access partnerships. A small handful of GHPs constitute two additional groups: global coordination and financing mechanisms4.