Supporting institutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Channel: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Date: 2020-03-31

The Public Health Institute (PHI) of Republic of Srpska has a mandate from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to monitor health outcomes in the region, paying particular attention to epidemiology, health surveillance, water and food control, and generating and managing health statistics. Although the PHI’s mandate had included the provision of policy recommendations on health systems to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the HMC had not done so until 2015 with the Alliance’s grant. This project constituted the first time the organization effectively undertook research to provide evidence-based policy recommendations. After this experience, the PHI decided to strengthen its capacity to provide more, and better, evidence-based policy recommendations to the ministry.