Giving Compass' Take:

• The Rockefeller Foundation is working to bring parties together to create universal healthcare for the world.

• What other causes are suffering from fragmentation? How can collaboration overcome the biggest challenges we face? 

• Learn more about the Rockefeller Foundation's work to collaborate for sustainable development. 

One year ago, after nearly a decade’s commitment to advancing the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) movement, the Rockefeller Foundation’s health team asked itself what it could do in the next 10 years to move closer to making “health for all” a reality. In pursuit of an answer, we spoke to experts around the globe, scanned recent and emerging research, workshopped hypotheses with health programs in various countries, and considered solutions proposed by innovators within and beyond the health sector.

At the start, the horizon for an entry point seemed limitless. But the underpinnings of this initial research validated our commitment to seek a different perspective – that of the people living and working in the communities we hoped to reach through our efforts.

Fragmentation in global health funding has slowed progress on saving lives and keeping families and communities healthy. Our team seeks to jumpstart this progress by leading partnerships that align donors and implementers around a common set of principles, practices, and reporting structures in community health—reducing redundancies and unlocking funds to broaden the scope of services families can expect to receive at the community level. We view digital tools and data systems as accelerators that will improve accountability, resource allocation, and quality of care delivered to people previously left behind.

Integrated, digitally-enabled community health systems could be a critical next step in advancing the work we’ve already begun through our advocacy for UHC, and a means to truly ensure good health for all translates to all lives on the ground.

Read the full article about universal health care by Nikita Japra at The Rockefeller Foundation