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  • Webinar: Integrating gender into health system strengthening in conflict and crisis-affected settings; what’s in our toolkit?

    This webinar took place on June 22, 2018. However, if you missed the webinar or would like to listen to it again, you can watch the recording and download the slides.

    In 2016, HSG held the first webinar on gender, asking the question, “What part should gender play in reconstructing post-conflict health systems?” Two years on and much has changed. There is a growing interest in applying gender frameworks and analysis in health systems research. The #metoo movement and other popular feminist actions have driven greater attention to gender equity. New conflicts and health crises have arisen in various settings prompting humanitarian emergency responses.

    This webinar does not seek to make the argument that we should focus on gender in post-conflict health systems. We feel that argument has been settled. Rather we describe how the process of focusing on gender has unfolded in different settings and share a range of tools that interested researchers, policymakers and practitioners could use and adapt to stimulate progress towards gender equity.

    We also want to hear from you. What challenges are you facing in taking forward this agenda? How can our global community of health systems researchers help in constructing the kind of evidence base that would guide good decision makers and facilitate best practice? Help us to shape the presentations by completing this short survey. It takes about three minutes.

    Panelists

    Introduction and survey results – Egbert Sondorp, the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

    An overview of useful tools and approaches – Val Percival and Amber Warnat, Carleton University

    Country case studies – Justine Namakula (School of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda), Haja Wurie (College of Medicine and Applied Health Sciences, Sierra Leone)

    The webinar is sponsored by RinGs, the ReBUILD Research Programme Consortium, and the Building Back Better project. It will be facilitated by Health Systems Global.

     

    Curatio International Foundation hosts Health Systems Global Secretariat. Health Systems Global (HSG) is the first international membership organization fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and related knowledge translation. HSG brings together researchers, policy-makers, funders, implementers, civil society and other stakeholders from all over the world. Around 1900 HSG members work together to create, share and apply knowledge necessary for strengthening health systems globally.

    Check the announcement on HSG website.

  • Hosting Health Systems Global Secretariat

    Introduction and Overview

    Health Systems Global (HSG) is the first international membership organization fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and knowledge translation.

    Starting from March 1st, 2015 Curatio International Foundation hosts the HSG secretariat, which was previously housed in the Center for Health and Infectious Disease Research at the University of Copenhagen.

    Dr. George Gotsadze, Director and President of Curatio International Foundation assumed the role of the Executive Director of Health Systems Global. He leads secretariat together with the communications team from  Institute of Development Study (Brighton, UK) and strives for the HSG to become a stronger society.

    CIF will hand over secretariat management to another LMIC country in 2020.

    HSG Financial Supporters Since 2015 

    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    Canadian Institute for Health Research

    China Medical Board

    Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

    Global Affairs Canada

    Global Ideas Fund at CAF America

    International Development Research Centre, Canada

    Rockefeller Foundation

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

    USAID

    Wellcome Trust

    Project Objectives and Contributions

    To connect health systems research and policy communities globally to contribute to the attainment of better health, equity, and well-being.

    About the Global Symposia

    Health Systems Global organizes a symposium every two years to bring together its members with the full range of players involved in health systems and policy research. There is currently no other international gathering that serves the needs of this community.

    The venue chosen for each meeting facilitates inclusion of participants from a specific part of the world and a focus on that region, although each is a global meeting in terms of content and representation. Each symposium is determined to:

    • Share new state-of-the-art evidence;
    • Review the progress and challenges towards implementation of the global agenda of priority research;
    • Identify and discuss the approaches to strengthen the scientific rigour of health systems research including concepts, frameworks, measures, and methods;
    • Facilitate greater research collaboration and learning communities across disciplines, sectors, initiatives, and countries.

    Previous global symposia were held in Montreux, 2010, Beijing 2012, Cape Town 2014, Vancouver 2016 and the fifth one will take place in Liverpool during October 8-12, 2018 and is expected to bring together around 3000 global participants.

    Detailed information about the 5th global symposium on the Health Systems Research is available on the website.

  • Webinar on The peer review process – what happens when you send your manuscript to a journal

    This webinar took place on April 23, 2018. However, if you missed the session or want to listen to it again, you can watch the recording.

    Have you ever wondered what the journal editor’s viewpoint is on your article, or what happens once you send your manuscript to a journal? This webinar will provide an overview of the peer review process with advice for authors on how to engage constructively with comments from editors and reviewers, and what to do when you disagree.

    As part of a series of webinars jointly organized by HSG and Biomed Central exploring various aspects of publishing and the peer review process, this webinar will particularly focus on:

    • What happens during the peer review process

    • Models of peer review, why you should care

    • What Editors and reviewers are looking for

    • How decisions are made

    • How to respond to reviewers’ and editors’ comments

    • Dealing with rejection

    Curatio International Foundation hosts Health Systems Global Secretariat. Health Systems Global (HSG) is the first international membership organization fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and related knowledge translation. HSG brings together researchers, policy-makers, funders, implementers, civil society and other stakeholders from all over the world. Around 1900 HSG members work together to create, share and apply knowledge necessary for strengthening health systems globally.

  • Webinar on Improving Quality of Care during Childbirth: Learnings and Next Steps from the BetterBirth Trial

    This webinar took place on April 24, 2018. However, if you missed the session or want to listen to it again, you can watch the recording.

    Join the webinar organized by HSG Thematic Working Group Quality in Universal Health and Healthcare. During this webinar, Katherine Semaru will discuss the lessons learned from the BetterBirth trial towards the increase of quality of maternal and newborn care, and the work still needed to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.

    The Ariadne Labs’ BetterBirth Program has been focused on developing, implementing, and testing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Safe Childbirth Checklist globally. In 2014, after a successful pilot of the Checklist in southern India, the BetterBirth study was initiated in Uttar Pradesh, India, at primary and community health centers. The study measured the effectiveness of the BetterBirth Program on the uptake of essential birth practices by birth attendants and on early neonatal mortality, maternal mortality, and maternal morbidity. With follow up data on over 300,000 mothers and infants, the BetterBirth trial is one of the largest maternal health trials ever conducted.

    About the speaker

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    Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH, is director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Division of Global Health Equity.She led a large randomized controlled trial of a coaching-based intervention to increase use and adherence to the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist.

    Curatio International Foundation Hosts Health Systems Global Secretariat. Health Systems Global (HSG) is the first international membership organization fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and related knowledge translation. HSG brings together researchers, policy-makers, funders, implementers, civil society and other stakeholders from all over the world. Around 1900 HSG members work together to create, share and apply knowledge necessary for strengthening health systems globally.

  • Article: Privilege and inclusivity in shaping Global Health agendas

    Health Policy and Planning published an article Privilege and inclusivity in shaping Global Health agendas.  CIF director George Gotsadze co-authors the paper together with Kabir Sheikh, Sara Bennett and Fadi el Jardali.

    The article discusses lack of inclusivity in Global Health and possible actions to promote inclusivity and diversity in the field.

    “Northern voices dominate Global Health discussions. Of recent Lancet Commissions, excluding representatives from international organizations, 70% of commissioners on the Women and Health commission came from the global North, and likewise, 71% of the Health and Climate Change commission, 72% of the Global Surgery commission and 73% of the Global Health commission (Lancet 2016). Only two out of the 16-member Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities of Global Health come from the global South (CUGH 2016). No current or past president and only one current member of the World Health Summit’s scientific committee is from the global South (WHS 2016). Only one of the 17 advisory board members of the journal Global Health Governance is based in a low/middle income country (LMIC) institution (GHG 2016).

    Only 15% of the world’s population lives in high-income countries. Yet Global Health conferences continue to be dominated by invited Northern speakers and important committees on Global Health composed mainly of Northerners. The words of a few from the global North wield a disproportionate power that carries …”

    The full text is downloadable here.