Dr. Mark Hellowell is Director of the Global Health Policy Unit at the University of Edinburgh, one of the world’s top 20 universities. Dr. Hellowell’s work focuses on improving public-private sector engagement in the financing and delivery of health care, both in advanced economies and emerging markets. He has authored more than 30 peer reviewed scientific publications, mostly on this topic, his work featuring in prominent print and broadcast media, including The Financial Times, The Economist, and the BBC. He is former special advisor to the United Kingdom parliament’s Treasury Select Committee, and has worked with the World Bank, DfID, and the Global Financing Facility on capacity-building initiatives for key policymakers who seek to mobilise the private health sector in order to accurate their progress towards Universal Health Coverage. He currently works with the World Health Organisation on a project to enhance emergency preparedness and health system resilience capacities in LMICs through public/private coordination – now with a focus on LMIC national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Barbara O’Hanlon is a recognized leader in international health policy design and implementation with over 35 years’ experience. Ms. O’Hanlon is a pioneer in the areas of private sector policy reforms, public-private dialogue, and health public-private partnerships. In the last 15 years, she has worked with several African health ministries to conduct private health sector assessments, analyze key health markets for private sector opportunities, formulate private sector policies, and establish health PPP Units. Ms. O’Hanlon has also supported several African health ministries to engage the private sector using a variety of policy instruments such as policy dialogue, contracting and other financial mechanisms, and public-private partnerships. She also provides assist African healthcare federations to become viable membership organizations and strengthen their technical capacity to represent the private sector voice in policy design and implementation. As one of the co-authors of the MM4H course, Ms. O’Hanlon has trained health ministry officials from over 15 countries and development partner public health staff in the managing health markets approach. Ms. O’Hanlon’s firm consults for a wide range of clients active in global health policy including the World Bank Group, UK Aid, USAID, World Health Organizations among others. Ms. O’Hanlon has a M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University.

• 1. Introduction2. Diagnose: Outlining and illustrating the tools needed to analyse the symptoms, and proximate and root causes, of local-prioritised health system challenges3. Design: Outlining and illustrating the tools needed to envision a ‘vision of the future’ in which market systems will be re-shaped to deliver on local health goals4. Deliver: Outlining and illustrating the tools needed to create appropriate governance styles through which market systems actions can be effectively delivered5. Detect: Outlining and illustrating the tools needed to effectively measure outcomes, and to learn, adapt and ‘course-correct’ in light of what we find6. ConclusionAppendix 1: The scale and scope of private sector health service provision in LMICsAppendix 2: Data, methods and additional guidance for market systems researchAppendix 3: Sources of further information on applying market systems analysis