Welcome back to the Health and Policy Planning Podcast.

In this episode LSHTM’s Public Engagement Manager, Karl Byrne is joined by lead author, Pamela Adaobi Ogbozor from Enugu State University of Science and Technology to talk about her paper “The nature, drivers and equity consequences of informal payments for maternal and child health care in primary health centres in Enugu, Nigeria.”

 You can find the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad048

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This paper is published in the journal supplement in Health Policy and Planning on Health Equity: Access to services and caring for underserved populations. You can find the rest of the journal  supplement here:
https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/38/Supplement_2

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Informal payments for maternal and child health care in primary health centres in Enugu, Nigeria

Welcome back to the Health and Policy Planning Podcast.

In this episode LSHTM’s Public Engagement Manager, Karl Byrne discusses HPP's latest Special Supplement: “Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage: why, what and how”.  Karl is joined by Unni Gopinathan and Elina Dale, both from The Norwegian Institute of Public Health and co-editors of the special supplement, as well as Prof. Alex Voorhoeve of the London School of Economics and Political Science and co-author of several of the Special Supplements Papers, and Professor Petronell Kruger- previously at the University of Witwatersrand where she led the supplement’s case study from South Africa.
	
In this podcast we discuss the motivation behind the creation of the Supplement, how the papers advance our understanding of procedural fairness and some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen from the research.

You can find the full supplement here: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/issue/38/Supplement_1

Let us know your thoughts! You can find us at @HPP_LSHTM on X (formerly Twitter) and on LinkedIn at "HPP Journal LSHTM" www.linkedin.com/in/hpp-journal-lshtm-a17544282/

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Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage: why, what and how

This event is co-organized by IFPRI and The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition

Undernutrition during childhood and early adolescence has long-term consequences for development and health, and for girls it can affect the survival and wellbeing of their children. Diet-related risk factors are estimated to cause 20% of global mortality, and changes in food systems have led to rapid shifts to unhealthy diets and reductions in physical activity, contributing to the increase in rates of overweight and obesity. Moreover, current dietary and population trends will exacerbate risks to humans and the planet.

School feeding programs, or school meals, are a widely implemented safety net with documented impacts across social protection, education, health and nutrition dimensions, and substantial projected economic returns to investment. Globally, programs reach over 400 million children for a total investment of over $50 billion a year. By being most effective for the most disadvantaged children, school meal programs can “level the playing field” in education, health, and nutrition. Experiences in high- and middle-income countries have also linked school meals to food systems transformation, where food procurement for school meals is used as an outlet for commercial farmers. National governments in LIMCs have shown interest in explicitly linking food systems transformation with the school feeding market through “home-grown” school feeding (HGSF). In HGSF, the “structured demand” for school food and related services is channeled to smallholders and other supply chain actors with the intent of stimulating agricultural productivity, increasing incomes, improving diets, and reducing food insecurity.

More about this Event: https://www.ifpri.org/event/school-meals-in-the-21st-century-emerging-evidence-and-future-directions/

Welcome and Introduction
Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy; Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, IFPRI
Donald Bundy, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

School Meals are Evolving: Has the Evidence Kept up?
Harold Alderman, Research Fellow Emeritus, IFPRI

New Evidence from Impact Evaluations
Impact evaluation of the home-grown school meal model in Jordan: Simone Lombardini, Evaluation Officer, World Food Programme (WFP)
Impact evaluation of the home-grown school meal model in The Gambia: Benedetta Lerva, Economist, Development Impact (DIME), Development Economics, The World Bank
Impact evaluation of an added milk intervention to a micronutrient fortified school feeding program in crisis settings: Lilia Bliznashka, Research Fellow, IFPRI

Panel Discussion: Moving from evidence to action
Mangani Katundu, Secretary for Education, Government of Malawi
Donald Bundy, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Lynnette Neufeld, Director, Food and Nutrition Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Kagwiria Koome, Manager, Food, The Rockefeller Foundation
Mia Blakstad, Window Manager, Food and Nutrition, The World Bank
Arlene Mitchell, Executive Director, Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF)

Moderator and Closing Remarks
Aulo Gelli, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

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School meals in the 21st century – emerging evidence and future directions

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Established in 1975, IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 50 countries. It is a research center of CGIAR, a worldwide partnership engaged in agricultural research for development.

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