Johns Hopkins University
$126,357
International Working Group on Quality Indicators, Phase Three
The International Working Group on Quality Indicators, initially convened by the Fund in March 1999, aims to improve the measures available for cross-national comparisons of health care quality. Two additional meetings will be held in January and June 2003 to address operational issues of data collection and implementation in the five countries and expand the core set of indicators.

President and Fellows of Harvard College
$400,000
2003 International Health Policy Survey
The 2003 International Health Policy Survey will assess health care system performance from the perspective of hospital administrators in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A paper discussing survey results and policy implications will be prepared for publication in Health Affairs.

Project HOPE/The People-to-People Health Foundation
$264,340
International Issue of Health Affairs
The May/June 2004 international issue of Health Affairs will feature the proceeds of the Fund's sixth annual International Symposium on Health Care Policy.

The Commonwealth Fund
$182,000
International Symposium on Health Care Policy, Fall 2003
The Fund's sixth annual International Symposium on Health Care Policy will explore the complex challenges facing hospitals and the kinds of innovative approaches that are emerging to address them. In bringing together leading policymakers and researchers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States—and potentially other G-7 countries—the symposium will alert U.S. policymakers to ways in which hospitals in other countries are: meeting rising expectations for health care quality and demands for information technology, addressing nurse and physician shortages, and responding to medical advances and the needs of aging and increasingly diverse populations. The May/June 2004 issue of Health Affairs will feature symposium proceedings.

The Commonwealth Fund
$1,138,000
Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy, 2004—05
Through selection, placement, and support of a seventh class of Harkness Fellows, the Fund will continue to develop promising junior policy researchers and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Based on the success of the Harkness Fellowships model, the U.K.-based PPP Foundation will support two additional U.K. Harkness Fellowships each year for senior managers in the National Health Service and government policy analysts in the Department of Health. In addition, the Australian Department of Health and Aging has established, in partnership with the Fund, a "reverse" Harkness Fellowship to enable two U.S. health policy experts to undertake research in Australia.

The Nuffield Trust
$105,000
U.S.—U.K. Conference on Health Care Quality Improvement, 2003
Since May 1999, the Fund and the Nuffield Trust have sponsored a series of annual symposia that have brought together senior government officials, leading researchers, and practitioners from the United States and the United Kingdom for an exchange on quality improvement policies and strategies. Building on the relationships and substantive collaboration under way, a fifth meeting will be held in July 2003 in Pennyhill Park, England, to examine a range of policy issues and options to improve quality, assess progress made by the collaboration, and recommend future directions for joint activities and research.

AcademyHealth
$5,450
Long Term Care for Older People in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Japan: Implications for the United States

AcademyHealth
$10,000
International Session at AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting: "Health Systems Response to the Growing Prevalence of Chronic Disease"

Health Services Research Association of Australia & New Zealand
$10,000
Planning Grant for the 3rd Australia--New Zealand Health Services Research Conference

Health Services Research Association of Australia & New Zealand
$30,105
3rd Australia—New Zealand Health Services Research Conference

Johns Hopkins University
$25,000
Cross-National Comparisons of Health Systems Quality Data, 2004

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
$41,065
OECD International Health Care Quality Indicators Project

Rand Corporation
$25,000
Health as a Tool of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Foreign Service Officers

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
$25,000
International Nursing Shortages and Nurse Migration

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
$25,000
International Comparison of the Impact of Nursing on Hospital Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes