Few resources on the delivery of health services and health technologies in low-resource settings currently exist for educators. The Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University has begun to fill this gap with a series of teaching cases and accompanying teaching notes examining principles of health care delivery in low-resource settings that are freely available for download and distribution.

The Global Health Delivery Project (GHD) is a joint initiative of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Division of Global Health Equity. GHD aims to stimulate collaboration among health care stakeholders and systematize the study of health care delivery to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice in global health.

To create the foundation of a growing case series, GHD identified innovative, successful programs and organizations working in global health. Case writers and faculty made field visits to these projects to conduct interviews with key decision makers. GHD learned about the strategic and managerial principles that helped facilitate these programs’ successes as well as the challenges they were struggling to overcome and then used the findings to create detailed teaching cases illustrating these lessons and the complexities of working in the field. Accompanying teaching notes were developed to guide instructors in facilitating classroom discussion of these cases in undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in global health.

The teaching cases allow examination of real-world challenges faced by global health programs and organizations that seek to deliver health care in low-resource settings and prepare students to be leaders in the field of health care delivery.

Accessing the free cases

GHD cases are available for free to all registered users at ecch.com by downloading a clean pdf of each case from its record in product search. Click on a case title below to access its record.

	Botswana's Program for Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Erin Sullivan, Peter Drobac, Katherine Thompson and William Rodriguez Ref GHD-007 Topics: AIDS; Expansion; Global health; Health; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Medical research; Public health; Strategy
	BRAC's Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOT Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh Maria May, Joseph Rhatigan and Richard Cash Ref GHD-010 Topics: Analysis; Collaboration; Economic development; Global health; Health care delivery; Human resource management; Innovation; Nonprofit organizations; Partnerships; Poverty; Social enterprise
	Building Local Capacity for Health Commodity Manufacturing: A to Z Textile Mills Ltd William Rodriguez and Kileken ole-MoiYoi Ref GHD-009 Topics: Analysis; Corporate social entrepreneurship; Demand analysis; Economic development; Global collaboration; Global health; Global supply chain; Health care delivery; Partnerships; Social enterprise; Visionary management
	Electronic Medical Records at the ISS Clinic in Bmarara,Uganda Amy Madore, Julie Talbot and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-026 Topics: AIDS; Data management; Developing countries; Global health; Health; Health care delivery; IT management; Nonprofit organizations; Partnerships; Project management; Public health
	HIV in Thailand: The 100% Condom Program Sarun Charumilind, Sachin H Jain and Joseph Rhatigan Ref GHD-001 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Developing countries; Global health; Government policy; Health care delivery; Leadership; Partnerships; Politics; Social entrepreneurship; Strategy Also available: The 100% Condom Program: Part B Ref GHD-01B
	HIV Prevention in Maharashtra, India Claire Cole, Julie Talbot, Joseph Rhatigan, Rebecca Weintraub and Michael E. Porter Ref GHD-019 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Behavioral segmentation; Global health; Health; Health care delivery; Innovation; Leadership development; Nonprofit organizations; Strategy
	HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Hinche, Haiti Erika Pabo, Joseph Rhatigan, Andrew Ellner and Evan Lyon Ref GHD-004 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Collaboration; Global health; Health care delivery; Human resource management; Nonprofit organizations; Organizational effectiveness; Partnerships; Project management Also available: Two Years in Hinche Erika Ann Pabo, Andrew Lee Ellner, Joseph Rhatigan and Evan Lyon Ref GHD-04B
	HIV/AIDS in Brazil: Delivering Prevention in a Decentralized Health System Sarah Arnquist, Andrew Ellner and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-018 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Global health; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Leadership; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Organizational effectiveness; Politics; Strategy
	HIV/AIDS in Indonesia: Building a Coordinated National Response Sarah Arnquist and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-021 Topics: AIDS; Collaboration; Global business; Government policy; Health; Leadership; Nonprofit organizations; Operational effectiveness; Partnerships
	Investing in Global Health: Botanical Extracts Ltd. Kileken ole-MoiYoi and William Rodriguez Ref GHD-016 Topics: Analysis; Demand analysis; Economic development; Forecasting; Foreign direct investment; Global collaboration; Global health; Global supply chain; Health care delivery; Partnerships; Social enterprise
	Iran's Triangular Clinic Julie Talbot, Marissa Bohrer and Joseph Rhatigan Ref GHD-006 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Behavioral segmentation; Global health; Health care assistance; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Politics; Project scope; Social equality
	loveLife: Preventing HIV Among South African Youth Sarah Arnquist and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-017 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Demographic segmentation; Global health; Health care delivery; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Nonprofit organizations; Operational sustainability; Organizational effectiveness; Strategy Also available: loveLife: Preventing HIV Among South African Youth (and Part B) Ref GHD-017B loveLife: Transitions After 2005 Sarah Arnquist, Julie Talbot and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-022
	Malaria Control In Zambia Vanessa Redditt, Kileken ole-MoiYoi, William Rodriguez, Julie Talbot and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-024 Topics: Collaboration; Developing countries; General management; Global health; Leadership; Partnerships; Public health; Strategy; Supply chain management Also available: Condensed version Ref GHD-24S
	Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment in Peru Julie Talbot and Joseph Rhatigan Ref GHD-003 Topics: Analysis; Global health; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Leadership; Nonprofit organizations; Operational effectiveness; Politics; Public health; Social equality; Vision
	Polio Elimination in Uttar Pradesh Daniel Blumenthal, Andrew Ellner, Sachin H Jain and Joseph Rhatigan  Ref GHD-005 Topics: Analysis; Global collaboration; Global health; Government policy; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Partnerships; Poverty; Social equality; Supply chain management
	Roll-Out of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in Swaziland Kileken ole-MoiYoi, Julie Talbot and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-025 Topics: Developing countries; Global health; Health care delivery; Leadership; Partnerships; Public health; Resource leverage; Strategy; Visionary management; Work force management
	The Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH) Peter Park, Arti Bhatt and Joseph Rhatigan Ref GHD-013 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Collaboration; Education; Expansion; Global health; Health care delivery; Nonprofit organizations; Operational effectiveness; Partnerships; Project management; Universities
	The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) of Uganda Sarah Kleinman, Julie Talbot, Julian Harris and Andrew Ellner Ref GHD-008 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; Collaboration; Global health; Health care delivery; Leadership; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Organizational change; Organizational effectiveness
	The Avahan India AIDS Initiative: Managing Targeted HIV Prevention at Scale Claire Cole, Maria May, Julie Talbot, Rebecca Weintraub and Michael E. Porter Ref GHD-020 Topics: AIDS; Analysis; General management; Global health; Health care delivery; Innovation; Nonprofit organizations; Operational effectiveness; Partnerships; Strategy
	The Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Note) Erin Sullivan, Kileken ole-MoiYoi and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-C02 Topics: AIDS; Developing countries; Financing; Global collaboration; Global health; Health care delivery; Infrastructure; Innovation; Operational sustainability; Operations management; Public health
	The Global Health Supply Chain (Note) Erin Sullivan, Jarrod Goentzel and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-C01 Topics: AIDS; Developing countries; Financing; Forecasting; Global health; Health care delivery; Operational sustainability; Operations management; Procurement; Public health; Supply chain management
	The Indus Hospital: Delivering Free Health Care in Pakistan Sarah Arnquist and Rebecca Weintraub Ref GHD-023 Topics: General management; Global health; Health care delivery; Information systems; Innovation; Leadership; Nonprofit organizations; Operational sustainability; Organizational effectiveness; Poverty; Public health; Strategy; Visionary management; Work force management
	The Measles Initiative Ranvir Dhillon and Joseph Rhatigan Ref GHD-015 Topics: Analysis; Global business; Global collaboration; Global health; Government policy; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Leadership; Partnerships; Social equality; Strategy
	The Peruvian National Tuberculosis Control Program Julie Talbot, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim Ref GHD-002 Topics: Analysis; Data management; General management; Global health; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Leadership; Operational effectiveness; Politics; Work force management
	Tobacco Control in South Africa Asaf Bitton, Julie Talbot and Lucy Clarke Ref GHD-012 Topics: Global health; Government policy; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Leadership; Medical research; Partnerships; Politics; Social equality; Strategy Also available: Tobacco Control in South Africa: Next Steps Asaf Bitton, Julie Talbot, Laura Taranto and Einat Kadar Ref GHD-12B
	Treating Malnutrition: Designing Protocols for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods in Haiti Erica Phillips and Joseph Rhatigan Ref GHD-014 Topics: Analysis; Global health; Health care delivery; Health care policy; Innovation; Medical research; Poverty; Social equality; Strategy
	Tuberculosis in Dhaka: BRAC's Urban TB Program Maria May, Joseph Rhatigan and Richard Cash Ref GHD-011 Topics: Analysis; Economic development; Global health; Health care delivery; Human resource management; Innovation; Nonprofit organizations; Operational effectiveness; Partnerships; Poverty; Social enterprise

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