CHEPSAA Archive
CHEPSAA News Archive
CHEPSAA chapter profiles the field of health policy and systems research
The world-wide growth of the field of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR), the boundaries of this field and its role in strengthening health systems, and strategies and priorities for building capacity in this field in South Africa are some of the key themes addressed in a recent joint publ...
CHEPSAA colleague celebrates important educational milestone
Dr Chinyere Mbachu was recently admitted as a fellow of the West African College of Physicians.
Dr Mbachu is a senior resident doctor in the Department of Community Medicine of the teaching hospital of the University of Nigeria in Enugu. She has been working with the Health Policy Research Group...
CHEPSAA convenes curriculum development workshop in Ghana
A workshop was convened during August 2012 at the University of Ghana’s School of Public Health to share knowledge, skills and materials about curriculum development (these skills were gained from another CHEPSAA workshop held earlier in the year in Cape Town).
Specifically, the wor...
CHEPSAA is building a community of practice for health policy and systems in South Africa
CHEPSAA convened a pre-conference workshop at the Joint conference of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) and the Rural Doctors Association of South Africa (RuDASA) conference in Bloemfontein, South Africa during September 2012.
The workshop aimed to begin building a community ...
CHEPSAA meeting abuzz with course development, getting research into policy & connecting researchers
The Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) recently had the opportunity to brief colleagues in Tanzania about its work and to exchange ideas on topics as varied as building the field of Health Policy and Systems Research and Analysis (HPSR+A) in Africa, curriculum d...
CHEPSAA to host 2013 annual meeting in Tanzania
The third annual CHEPSAA meeting will take place in Tanzania during March 2013.
Broadly, the workshop will set out:
To consolidate and maintain momentum in taking forward CHEPSAA activities
To account for CHEPSAA work undertaken in 2012
To plan for CHEPSAA activities in 2013-14
To deepen n...
CHEPSAA’s second curriculum development workshop gets underway
The Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) is this week (13-17 May 2013) holding its second curriculum development workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. The week’s activities will be focused on beginning to finalise CHEPSAA’s first collectively devel...
Emerging Voices for Global Health 2012: Inspired, networked and heard
It is exciting to be in a new field of research, but young researchers have to figure out how best to develop their careers in a field that is emerging. Finding other like-minded peers can also be challenging and at best, they discover that many of their peers with similar interests are in other ...
New CHEPSAA flyer: Activities to date and future plans
This 4-page overview summarises Chepsaa activities since 2011 and looks at capacity development plans for the future. It was designed for the marketplace stands of the 2nd Global Symposium on health systems research taking place in Beijing China from 31 October to 3 Nove...
Report on Health Policy Analysis Short Course for Decision Makers in the Health Sector
The specific objectives of the workshop were to:
Introduce participants to concepts in Health Policy analysis and to strengthen individual skills and capacity in policy analysis and management within the MOH and selected implementation and regulatory agencies.
Support the application of the s...
Researchers gather in Kisumu for internship programme
This week sees the start of an annual international research internship programme for health systems researchers, hosted by the Great Lakes University of Kisimu (GLUK), Kenya. The programme offers junior researchers the opportunity to receive training and to network with peers and facilitators fr...
Scholars launch website to share health policy and systems resources
Prof. Valéry Ridde of the University of Montreal and his colleagues have launched a new website which shares knowledge, resources and ideas derived from their work around the themes of health policy analysis, equity of access to healthcare, social inequalities of health, research methodolo...
Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research presentation
At the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Beijing (31 October to 3 November 2012), CHEPSAA made the following presentation:
MIRZOEV, T., LE, G., KALLIECHARAN, R., AGYEPONG, I., ERASMUS, E., GOUDGE, J., KAMUZORA, P., U., L., OKEYO, S., DE SAVIGNY, D., TOMSON, G., UZOCHUKWU, B. ...
UCT health systems graduate achieves publication milestone
An emerging scholar who has recently taken great strides in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) in Africa is Toyin Adeleke, the first graduate of the health systems track of UCT’s Master’s in Public Health (MPH), who has also contributed a chapter to the new So...
“CHEPSAA helps to build critical mass of African health policy and systems researchers”- WHO Director
“The Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) has been incredibly relevant in building a critical mass of researchers and analysts in health policy and systems research (HPSR) on the continent, living and working in the context of Africa, helping to shed light o...
#AccraHPSR2015: whereto from here?
Two weeks ago, researchers, educators, civil servants and civil society advocates from West Africa met in Accra, Ghana to begin to shape a home-grown agenda for health policy and systems capacity strengthening in that region. This meeting, which included participants from 9 countries - Benin...
CHEPSAA colleagues to present at Prince Mahidol Conference
Two abstracts prepared by colleagues who are part of the teams implementing the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) have been accepted for presentation at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference.
The conference, which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand in...
CHEPSAA members join forces across Africa and Asia to improve post-graduate education
All 7 of CHEPSAA's African member universities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa recently joined forces with 9 other universities in Africa and Asia to explore opportunities in post-graduate public health education for health systems development.
This was made possible through ...
CHEPSAA networks with Ghana MPH students
The Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) this week got a taste of the MPH programme of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana when it had the opportunity to network with some of the students in this programme. This networking event was arranged as p...
CHEPSAA on the home straight; ending on a high note
The Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) is counting down to its official conclusion, with only 2 weeks to go before the end of the project grant. Instead of winding down, however, we are planning a jam-packed final phase of the project that will see us ending thi...