01Nov

Rocking HPSR Teaching, Eight Days A Week: Reflections from #HSR2018

HSR2018 lead

As I write this blog, I am back in Manila, Philippines and it has been a couple of weeks since #HSR2018. It was such an inspiring and productive week; and being a new member of Health Systems Global (HSG), it was also the first time I attended a global health policy and systems research (HPSR) conference. I am still very much in a Liverpool state of mind and thus I am presenting my reflections on the skills-building session Strengthening Capacity for Teaching and Learning HPSR for Educators and Learners with lyrics by The Beatles.

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Report: Strengthening health policy and systems courses to support health leadership and management development

This report covers a joint RESYST-CHEPSAA workshop that was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 4-6 April 2018. It provides a record of the meeting, which can be useful to others who are thinking about developing their courses to make them more relevant to leaders and managers. It also contains other resources such as useful readings about leadership and management, and descriptions of some of the more interesting facilitation techniques used during the meeting.

Adaptations to Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research module

Adaptations to CHEPSAA's course Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research, plus the associated teaching materials. Based on a short course by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and West China Research Centre for Rural Health Development.

Promoting equitable access to health care for households

The case studies present participants with an equity ‘lens’ through which to view the challenges of promoting health system access, focussing attention on households’ experience of illness and health service access with facilitator notes.