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-**Michael Kent Ranson** is a health economist. He is notable in the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] due to his role as a board member for [[gavi|Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance]].+**Michael Kent Ranson** is a Canadian health economist. He is notable in the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] due to his role as a board member for [[gavi|Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance]]. 
 ===== Background ===== ===== Background =====
  
 ==== Education ==== ==== Education ====
  
-Ranson holds an MD from [[McMaster University]], an MPH from the [[Harvard School of Public Health]], and a DPhil in health economics and financing from the [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]].((//Michael Kent Ranson.// (2021, October 22). Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. https://archive.ph/sMv3m))+Ranson holds an MD from [[McMaster University]], an MPH from the [[Harvard School of Public Health]], and a DPhil in health economics and financing from the [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]].((//Michael Kent Ranson.// (2021, October 22). Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. http://archive.today/2022.07.25-215508/https://www.gavi.org/governance/gavi-board/members/michael-kent-ranson))
  
 ===== Career ===== ===== Career =====
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 ==== World Health Organization ==== ==== World Health Organization ====
  
-Later, at the [[World Health Organization]], he supported health policy and systems research and led the secretariat for the First and Second [[Global Symposia on Health Systems Research]] under [[Health Systems Global]].((Milko, E., Wu, D., Neves, J., Neubecker, A. W., Lavis, J., & Ranson, M. K. (2014). //Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: a conference impact evaluation.// Health Policy and Planning, 30(5), 612–623. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu040))+Later, at the [[World Health Organization]], he supported health policy and systems research and led the secretariat for the First and Second [[Global Symposium on Health Systems Research]] under [[Health Systems Global]].((Milko, E., Wu, D., Neves, J., Neubecker, A. W., Lavis, J., & Ranson, M. K. (2014). //Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: a conference impact evaluation.// Health Policy and Planning, 30(5), 612–623. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu040)) 
 ==== World Bank ==== ==== World Bank ====
  
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 He is part of the team that developed a new mechanism that allows countries to use World Bank financing to purchase [[COVID-19 vaccines]], beyond the fully donor-subsidized doses they are already receiving, through COVAX. He is co-chair of the [[Immunization Agenda 2030]] Financial Sustainability working group. He is part of the team that developed a new mechanism that allows countries to use World Bank financing to purchase [[COVID-19 vaccines]], beyond the fully donor-subsidized doses they are already receiving, through COVAX. He is co-chair of the [[Immunization Agenda 2030]] Financial Sustainability working group.
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 +He also participated on the [[UHC2030]] Working Group on Sustainability, Transition from Aid and Health System Strengthening in 2017.((//First face to face meeting of the UHC2030 Working Group on Sustainability, Transition from Aid and Health System Strengthening.// (2017, March). UHC2030. https://web.archive.org/web/20210623044309/https://www.uhc2030.org/fileadmin/uploads/uhc2030/Documents/About_UHC2030/UHC2030_Working_Groups/2017_Transition_working_group_docs/Provisional_lst_of_participants_30-31_March_2017__1_.pdf))
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 +===== Other affiliations =====
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 +  * [[Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research]]
 +  * [[Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis]]
 +  * [[Harvard University]], Department of Health and Policy Management
 +  * [[Health Economics and Systems Analysis Group]] (HESA)
 +  * [[London School of Economics and Political Science]]
 +  * [[McMaster Health Forum]]
 +  * [[Michael DeGroote School of Medicine]], [[McMaster University]]
 +  * [[Program in Policy Decision-Making]]
 +  * [[Public Health Foundation of India]]
 +  * [[Queen's University]]
 +  * [[Royal Holloway, University of London]]
 +  * [[University of British Columbia]]
 +  * [[University of Cape Town]]
 +  * [[University of Geneva]]
 +  * [[University of Toronto]]
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