5 months ago // Opinion: The future of aid
Opinion: The “neocolonial” international aid system is being replaced by more coercive and exploitative policies reminiscent of the colonial era.
about 5 years ago // The future of US aid
USAID has lost its bearings, write IYF's Susan Reichle and FHI 360's Patrick Fine. Looking ahead to the new administration, they give their advice on two specific areas of reform.
about 9 years ago // Focus on: Global health
Do investments in private hospitals and clinics catering to the wealthy strengthen primary health care systems in poor countries? FHI 360 CEO Patrick Fine explains why we need focus on preventive and primary care and not allow expensive curative systems from consuming the lion's share of public health budgets for the benefit of a small minority of the population.
over 9 years ago // Focus on: Global health
There is an irrefutable logic to concentrating resources on the areas where HIV is worst — especially the case when the goal is to prevent the spread of the disease. But FHI 360 CEO Patrick Fine asks, is this approach inadvertently reinforcing social and economic inequality?
over 9 years ago // Global development career
Building resilience is a long-term endeavor that requires ongoing commitment. It's not an end state. FHI 360 CEO Patrick Fine explains why now is the time to recognize that human development challenges will exist as long as there are humans.
about 10 years ago // US foreign aid
Five years after the launch of USAID Forward, now is a good time to look at the trade-off between greater use of local organizations to build long-term capacity and the generation of near-term results that respond to the strategic priorities of least-developed countries and donor governments, writes Patrick Fine, chief executive officer of FHI 360.
about 10 years ago // #IntegratedDev
How do we operationalize an integrated development agenda? In this exclusive guest commentary, FHI 360's Patrick Fine, CEO, and Tricia Petruney, technical adviser for research utilization and integrated development, discuss the practicalities: what to do, how to do it and how to pay for it.
over 10 years ago // Patrick Fine on #Fin4Dev
Despite country ownership being one of the central tenets of the aid effectiveness agenda, we have never adequately reconciled the concept of ownership with the need for a country to be accountable for its policies. Let's hope the discussions in Addis address that, FHI 360's CEO writes in this exclusive commentary.
over 10 years ago // Patrick Fine on #Fin4Dev
The more we put development resources into stovepiped mechanisms, the more difficult it will be to finance integrated programs, FHI 360's chief executive officer writes in the exclusive commentary.
almost 11 years ago // Global health
Curbing the spread of diseases such as AIDS and malaria represents a major global development success. But emerging evidence shows such single-disease fascination is holding back progress in other areas. An exclusive commentary by FHI 360 CEO Patrick Fine and MDG Health Alliance Vice Chair Leith Greenslade.