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We support stakeholders to reduce health inequities and scale their impact through effective strategies, partnerships, advocacy, and financing.
Global health is a vibrant area with astounding progress. It has seen significant investment, innovation and political leadership– all contributing to unprecedented successes and achievements.
Despite these advancements, organizations striving for impact in global health must confront an increasingly complex landscape. There is a need to master cross-sectoral systems challenges, such as with climate, pandemics, and shifting disease burdens. The global health arena has also become increasingly crowded, with overlapping mandates and an increasing number of players. At the same time, there is growing pressure on multilateralism, international solidarity, and financing for global health.
We help our clients navigate this dynamic global health landscape, deliver impact and create systemic change towards the achievement of the health SDGs. For over 15 years, we have helped numerous organizations develop winning strategies, lead effectively, and implement innovative partnership and financing approaches. Our work in global health combines experience in strategy development, organizational effectiveness, financing, resource mobilization, and advocacy with expertise in programmatic areas.
As COVID-19 demonstrated, international funding for disease surveillance systems is not sufficient in its scale, transparency, or integration to adequately protect the world against disease threats.
In addition, strong disease surveillance systems are fundamental to the strength of the health system as a whole. Insufficient intelligence on the volume, flow, and allocation of funding for disease surveillance restricts the ability of policymakers and funders to make evidence-based decisions on resource allocation that are based on population need and the health burden in their country.
Funders and policy makers needed to better understand what funding was already available and develop a strategy to improve the quantity and quality of funding available for disease surveillance.
SEEK developed a novel approach to estimating existing international and domestic funding flows to disease surveillance.
Based on our understanding of the existing funding landscape and engagement with experts, we developed key policy recommendations on how funding for disease surveillance can be elevated on the international agenda and facilitate concrete action moving forward. These findings and recommendations were tested and iterated with a wide set of high-level stakeholders, including government donors, WHO, the World Bank, the Global Fund, UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Wellcome Trust, The Rockefeller Foundation, and others, in addition to country-level and civil society representation.
SEEK organized and co-hosted a side-event during the World Health Summit (alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Resolve to Save Lives, and the Government of Mozambique) that brought together key players to discuss actionable ways in which the quality and quantity of disease surveillance could be improved.
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SEEK’s work supported concrete action among key partners in addressing gaps in the disease surveillance funding and policy landscape, including better tracking, integration, and scaling of existing funding.
Stemming from this work, major funders are exploring how to coordinate their funding better in the context of the G7 and G20 processes, and in negotiations on Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Prevention.
Disease surveillance is an ongoing high-level priority for countries and funders: this is reflected in the core place it has taken in the Pandemic Pact, the Pandemic Fund, the Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience framework, and other high-level initiatives since this analysis took place. The analysis that SEEK first conducted is now being updated on a yearly basis as a means to continue to provide an evidence base for these developing global health architectures.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted constraints at all levels to effectively, prevent, prepare for, and respond to outbreaks at scale. SEEK supports a wide range of partners in their work to build resilience against pandemic and epidemic threats.
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The SDGs reflect the interconnectedness of global health challenges and the increasing need for these challenges to be addressed at the systems level, rather than by disease. SEEK leverages long-term policy analysis and deep knowledge of financing for health systems strengthening to support clients as they work to advance the global health infrastructure.
Climate change threatens essential prerequisites for good health, creates new health needs and inequities, and challenges health care delivery. We combine expertise in global health, climate change, and development finance to help our clients develop effective strategic responses and drive action around the climate-health nexus.
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Despite progress, infectious diseases continue to have major impact on the health of the global population and economic development. SEEK has supported numerous clients in effectively tackling the challenges presented by infectious diseases, and this remains a core part of our work.
The burden posed by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to health systems is immense. Mental health is also receiving increasing recognition, with access to services and fighting stigma as top priorities. SEEK combines technical knowledge with strategic tools to support clients in increasing awareness, securing resources, and delivering smart solutions for NCDs and mental health.
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With our understanding of these intersections, we take a holistic approach to provide tailored support to our clients in:
