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Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health) works with ministries of health (MoH) to extend the reach of community health systems at scale by building capacity for effective leadership & management practices and serving as a conduit for relevant private sector know-how and resources. AMP Health’s key features include:
- Placement of Management Partners with private sector management experience to engage in real-time capacity-building and skills transfer with MoH
- Targeted leadership & management development program
- Platform for cross-country sharing of best practices
AMP Health is led by a team based in Aspen Global Health and Development at the Aspen Institute in Washington DC, USA and guided by a Partnership Board consisting of senior delegates from partner organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Merck & Company, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Health, and USAID.
AMP Health is currently supporting ministries of health in Kenya, Malawi and Sierra Leone, with plans to support additional countries in 2017.
Read more on our website.
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First Leadership Lab held by AMP Health
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AMP Health conducted its inaugural Leadership Lab from November 1 – 4 in Nkopola, Malawi with ministry of health leaders from Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone, and partners from GSK, the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Health and USAID. The Leadership Lab gave participants the opportunity to apply principles of Adaptive Leadership to their day-to-day work, visit with Malawi community health workers in the field and share learnings on community health with each other. Read more on our website.
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Kenya
- AMP Health is supporting the development of an advocacy toolkit which targets the county leaders who now make decisions about health funding in the decentralized government environment; early efforts have led to investments in community health of over 250,000 USD in 4 counties
- We have also been supporting the development of a community health system performance dashboard – the first of its kind in Kenya – which uses existing data to monitor community health system functionality at county level; the team will work with the Cabinet Secretary to institutionalize its use
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Malawi
- AMP Health has served as a catalyst for initiating the development of a national community health strategy – the first of its kind for Malawi – which is scheduled to be completed in 2017
- We will also support the Community-Based Primary Health Care team on developing and rolling out an integrated supervision curriculum which will be used to train more than 1,000 Senior Health Surveillance Assistants (more experienced community health workers who supervise other CHWs) by 2018
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Sierra Leone
- AMP Health launched in October, welcoming Management Partner Kiribakka Tendo who was formerly Assistant Vice President of Barclays in South Africa
- We are excited to support the roll-out of the newly-launched National Community Health Worker Strategy, which includes a plan to train 15,000 CHWs by 2017
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Getting to know AMP Health
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Matt Ramirez
Management Partner, Malawi
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"The most gratifying aspect of the work thus far has definitely been the interactions with my Ministry of Health counterparts. We have all been open to rethinking the way the community health system in Malawi should work and it’s been exciting to think through this with our team."
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Get involved with AMP Health
If you are excited about the work we are doing at AMP Health, there are a range of opportunities to get involved:
- Propose countries for AMP Health support: Our support is best suited to countries committed to an ambitious agenda for their community health worker systems and building leadership & management capacity, with a current focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
- Identify Management Partner candidates: If you or anyone in your networks may be interested in becoming a Management Partner, please see here for a job description and information on applying. We accept applications on a rolling basis.
- Build AMP Health’s in-country networks: In each country we support, we are building a network of like-minded private sector partners offering their advocacy, thought partnership, funding, and/or access to relevant resources, expertise and networks.
- Unlock USAID funding by matching: USAID has committed 1M USD to AMP Health for strengthening health systems in post-Ebola countries, contingent on 1:1 matching contributions. Please let us know if you are interested in partnering with us.
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News from our partners
- Partners in Health, UNICEF, Last Mile Health, the Government of Ethiopia, the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Health and others launched the Financing Alliance for Health in September, a partnership intended to help governments with questions on financing community health systems.
- GSK was ranked first in the 2016 Access to Medicine Index, the fifth consecutive year it has been recognized for its efforts to improve access to medicines in developing countries
- Raj Panjabi, Co-Founder and CEO of Last Mile Health, was honored as winner of the 2017 TED Prize for expanding healthcare access to remote regions in Liberia by training, employing and equipping community health workers
- USAID's Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) recently launched it's Ready, Set, Launch Guide to introducing and scaling global health innovations. This was its third publication as part of its Idea to Impact Series.
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