The final reports of two Taskforce's working groups finalised

The Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems was charged with driving forward the UN MDGs on health to help end global poverty by 2015, is co-chaired by UK PM Gordon Brown and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. They are joined on the Taskforce by world leaders from Australia, Ethiopia France, Germany, Italy, Liberia, Mozambique, Norway as well as the World Health Organisation and the UN.

Two independent Working Groups were established to advise the Taskforce on the constraints and costs of the funding gap and the mechanisms for raising and channelling the funds.

Working Group I co-chairs - Julio Frenk (Dean, Harvard School of Public Health) and Anne Mills ( Head, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Working Group II chair - Anders Nordstrom (Director General, Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency)

The final reports of the two working groups are published here in full.