Population and Health Integration

Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world where the ministries of Health and Population exist as two separate institutional entities; health and population have shared agenda and despite several attempts in the past at the highest level of government, efforts to integrate the two ministries have not been fruitful. Heartfile is currently conducting a study to analyze if merger is a viable option and explore a way forward to bridge the current population-health institutional disconnect. The final report of the analysis will be forthcoming in the second quarter of 2009.