Expanding Health Insurance

The Opportunity:

Measuring access to health care is not enough; research must go beyond who is receiving benefits to understand the value of that access. Anup Malani, professor of law and medicine, is conducting an evaluation of a national Indian health care initiative, called Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), aimed at providing nearly free hospital services to Indians in the lowest quarter of the income scale, in order to help inform how the program is implemented and expanded. Arete is working with Malani to develop foundation and federal funding strategies for his research project. Arete is also working with him and other faculty to develop a larger goal of establishing an interdisciplinary health policy and economics center that focuses on large-scale field research by facilitating agenda-setting workshops and developing a strategy plan around the development of a center.

What we did for them:

Develop integrated and holistic funding strategy

Engage foundations and federal agencies

Facilitate research feasibility and agenda-setting workshops

Develop programs and initiatives

Principle Investigator:  Anup Malani