Overview

Since 2022, CHEPS has become a research partner of CHE University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/che/) , together with universities and international research institutions in several countries in the HFACT project (https://hfacts.net/ ). With the title Health Financing Universal Health Care in Challenging Times: Leaving No-one Behind, the scope of this work includes adapting policies & programs for resilient, equitable & sustained progress towards UHC – including poor & left-behind populations in Brazil, India, Indonesia & South Africa.

The long-term aim of HFACT is the strengthening of capacity in Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa to adapt health financing policies and programmes for resilient, equitable and sustained progress towards UHC. We will place particular emphasis on the poor and left-behind populations in the four large middle-income countries. HFACT will pursue four objectives to achieve the overall aim:

• Produce policy-relevant, actionable research, applying and developing innovative health economics methods to address major health financing challenges that impede UHC progress.
• Strengthen and expand research capability in using health economics/financing for decision-making in partner countries among both academic researchers and policy practitioners
• Strengthen and develop stakeholder coalitions with policymakers, civil society partners and the public to improve the relevance and quality of policy making in health financing.
• Engage with international organisations / stakeholders / policymakers to share findings, foster global update and influence global UHC policies.

On behalf of the collaboration agenda under HFACT led by CHE University of York. CHEPS carries out studies and research with several research themes, including:

• Evaluating INA-Grouper adopted in the Indonesian DRG payment
• The impact of innovative demand-side subsidy (combine CCT and JKN) on child and mother health outcomes: Evidence from Indonesian RCT data
• Establishing an empirical research: Impact of combine capitation with P4P on primary health care performance
• Estimating Supply Side Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds (CETs) for Indonesia: Optimizing NHA and Adoption of the CET figure
• The proposed research will be potentially conducted is Estimating Costs of Non-Communicable Diseases in Indonesia.