The IFIC Podcast
The International Foundation for Integrated Care has defined nine pillars of integrated care based on the evidence accumulated over the last 2 decades. One of those pillars is Aligned Payments that Promote Integration. This is a difficult subject to understand particularly for policymakers, service managers and health and care professionals working in systems trying to implement integrated care who are not financing and payment experts. This short podcast series features our Chief Executive Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with four leading practitioners who have been researching and designing new payment models around the world. They demystify the language of payment models and the different models we see emerging in different countries.
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Jacque Mallender, an international health and public policy economist. They demystify the language of payment models and the different models we see emerging.
Jacque Mallender started her career as a government economist and then moved into research and consultancy working in Europe and North America, and more recently in North Africa and the Middle East. She now provides specialist economics analysis, advice, training and publications through Economics By Design Ltd, a company she co-founded in 2019. She is also consultant with the World Bank Group, and an Executive Committee member of the Economic Research Council.
She has a long-standing interest in the economics of integrated care and, in particular, health financing and is currently providing training on health system payment models as part of the IFIC Integrated Care Academy Masters Programme.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Prof Ellen Nolte. Ellen Nolte is Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her expertise is in health systems research, international health care comparisons and performance assessment.
Over the past decade she has developed an internationally recognised research portfolio around innovative service models that seek to better meet the needs of people with complex and long-term health problems, with a particular focus on care coordination and integration within and across sectors. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. With Lena Woldman, Ellen wrote the chapter on financing and reimbursement for integrated care in the Handbook of Integrated Care.
Who are we?
At the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), our mission, as the leading international voice in integrated care, is to inspire, influence and facilitate the adoption of integrated care in policy and practice around the world.
Operating as a centre for excellence and underpinned by a high quality and evidence informed approach, we seek to work in collaborative partnership with our beneficiaries to develop, test, apply and lead this movement.
We seek to do this through the development and exchange of ideas among academics, researchers, managers, health and care professionals, users and carers of services and, policy and decision makers throughout the World.