Schedule
14 November
15 November
16 November
17 November
18 November
14 November
08:00 AM
Satellite and Skills Building Sessions
08:00 AM
The WHO Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: from high level policy commitment to collaborative mechanisms to advance implementation
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
08:00 AM
Putting policy into practice: increasing the quality and efficiency of research for health in the Americas
Skills building session
08:00 AM
Running like a well-oiled machine? Preparing leaders and managers for an uncertain future in complex systems
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
08:00 AM
Cancelled: Innovations to accelerate achievement of universal health care through implementation research and capacity building for health systems strengthening
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
08:00 AM
How to do gender analysis in health systems research
Skills building session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
08:00 AM
Practicing knowledge translation: a comprehensive course in active approaches to evidence implementation
Skills building session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
08:00 AM
How to write a good paper and get it published: publishing, peer review and innovation
Skills building session
08:30 AM
Enhancing health systems and sustaining public health gains while preparing for transition from donor funding
Satellite session
08:30 AM
Setting a path for improved health outcomes - results-based financing: the results thus far
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
08:30 AM
Health care beyond borders
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
Satellite session
08:30 AM
AMFm reflections – learning from new evidence on the Affordable Medicine Facility–malaria
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
09:00 AM
From data to usable information: using dashboards to enable data-led decision-making
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Out of the library and into the world: communications for research
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Disability and health: approaches, methodologies and tools for measuring inclusion
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Power and innovations to enhance health systems performance: lessons from six African countries funded under the Global Health Policy and Systems Research Program (WOTRO Science for Global Development, the Netherlands)
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Integration for resilience: how integrated health services and systems can contribute to building resilient health systems. Lessons from HIV and primary care integration studies
Satellite session
09:00 AM
From Intuition to Evidence: Connecting practitioners and researchers to build the evidence on leadership, management, governance’s contribution to resilient health systems
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
09:00 AM
District health systems strengthening and community health platforms: presentations and discussion of evidence based on three decades of experience in Africa and Asia
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Enhancing resilient access and delivery of new health technologies in low and middle income countries through multiple pathways: the access and delivery partnership
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
12:00 PM
Launch of an interactive toolkit developed by country practitioners through the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
12:00 PM
Setting an agenda for scaling up integrated health services: the role of global health initiatives and donors
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
12:00 PM
Health systems strengthening - a ten-year reflection! The evolution of health systems strengthening over the past decade
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
12:00 PM
How to (or not) respond to health systems shocks - lessons from Ebola, climate change, migration and the financial crisis
Satellite session
01:00 PM
Navigating the treacherous river of access to essential medicines: experience in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes
Skills building session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
01:00 PM
CARE’s community scorecard: an introduction to a citizen-driven, social accountability approach to improve health service delivery and utilization outcomes
Skills building session
01:00 PM
A pragmatic guide to health systems implementation research
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
01:00 PM
Using Tableau to create effective health information systems dashboards
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
01:30 PM
Strengthening routine health information systems through regional networks
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
01:30 PM
Complexity science for health systems – 4th edition from pandemics to organizational complexity
Satellite session
01:30 PM
Making the health system work for mothers and children in low resource settings: strengthening systems, improving performance, and deepening accountability - lessons from India
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
02:00 PM
Getting research into policy in health: politics, institutions, and the governance of evidence
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Global Learning Laboratory for quality universal health coverage
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Engaging policymakers and conducting rapid reviews on health policy and systems research
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Getting there: working within existing health systems to overcome barriers to maternal and reproductive health care
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Making measurement easier – Equity, a mobile application, and building a movement
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
03:00 PM
How to evaluate humanitarian interventions?
Satellite session
04:45 PM
Health Systems Global Board Meeting
07:00 PM
Cross TWG Meeting
15 November
08:00 AM
Satellite & Skills Building Sessions
08:00 AM
Implementation research and delivery science: informing health systems strategies and interventions
Satellite session
08:00 AM
Supporting HPS Evidence Generation and Use Capacity in West Africa: Innovating to link Health Policy, Systems and Maternal and Newborn health outcome improvement in West Africa
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
08:00 AM
Building the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Investment Case for Achieving Global Heath Goals: Advancing metrics and methodologies for prioritizing HRH investments, engaging across sectors, and maximizing socioeconomic returns
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
08:00 AM
Using life histories to understand and support health systems and their resilience
Skills building session
08:00 AM
Gender and rights-oriented health systems research: how to think about it, how to do it, and how to get results
Skills building session
08:00 AM
Designing data visualizations to strengthen health systems
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
08:00 AM
Health policy and systems research teaching and learning “clinic”
Skills building session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
08:00 AM
What’s your global health value? Applying systems thinking to promote debate and self-reflection on good global health practices
Skills building session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
08:00 AM
Multimedia for research and knowledge management in health systems research: why, what and how?
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
08:00 AM
Methods for strengthening efforts in health systems and workforce planning to meet the health care needs of people
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
08:30 AM
How can resilient health systems accelerate country progress towards universal health coverage? / Coment les systèmes de santé résilients peuvent-ils accélérer les progrès des pays en vue d’atteindre la couverture de santé universelle?
Satellite session
08:30 AM
Promoting child-friendly and resilient health systems using the EQUIST tool: a novel approach to strategic planning to reduce disparities in maternal and child health
Satellite session
08:30 AM
Measurement, learning and evaluation for maternal and newborn health
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
08:30 AM
District health systems strengthening and community health platforms: presentations and discussion of evidence based on three decades of experience in Africa and Asia
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
08:30 AM
Skills building on methods and tools for learning from action in participatory action research: Building action learning within affected actors and communities for resilient and responsive health systems
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
Satellite session
08:30 AM
Engaging drug shops and pharmacies of points of care for health care service delivery
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Health programs and UHC: disentangling verticality, horizontality and diagonality
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Publication Launch/ Lancement de publication – Strategizing National Health in the Twenty-First Century: A Handbook
Satellite session
09:00 AM
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Implementation Research
Satellite session
09:00 AM
Development of an optimal workforce for 90-90-90: Health worker considerations for improved and innovative service delivery models for HIV care
Satellite session
09:30 AM
HRH governance “clinic": navigating politics and complexity in the governance of human resources for health in Africa and Asia
Skills building session
12:00 PM
Is policy dialogue the weak link in creating resilient health systems? Experiences from the EU-Luxembourg-WHO Universal Health Coverage Partnership
Satellite session
12:00 PM
Quality improvement as a driving force to build resilient health systems
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
12:00 PM
Health Systems Global Board Meeting
12:30 PM
Enhancing resilience of health systems in rural areas through extending health protection to the informal economy, including the use of technology driven solutions/m-Health for increased access
Skills building session
12:30 PM
Effective Development Cooperation for Health Systems Strengthening – some perspectives of UHC2030
Satellite session
01:00 PM
Canada’s vision and strategic directions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Satellite session
01:00 PM
Harmonization in action: working together to build the community health workforce
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
01:00 PM
Designing your improvement or implementation initiative for health system strengthening
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
01:30 PM
Engaging practitioners and researchers in the development of action-oriented research agendas for citizen-led accountability in health systems
Satellite session
01:30 PM
Building strong health systems: a conversation with The Gates Foundation
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
01:30 PM
Netherlands – Africa Global Health Policy & Systems Research Programme (WOTRO): Impact, Lessons Learned and Best Practices
Satellite session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
01:30 PM
What makes a resilient and responsive health system? Lessons learned from a multi-country research consortium
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Think tanks and evidence based research informing policies to accelerate health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)/ Les cercles de réflexion et la recherche factuelle à la base des politiques pour accélérer l’atteinte des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) liés à la santé
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Satellite session
03:00 PM
DFID early market engagement for research on the resilience of health systems
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Momentum toward UHC: implications and opportunities for small-to-medium private practices
Satellite session
03:00 PM
African Region’s experience on health policy dialogues for resilient and responsive health systems
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Closed Session with Policy Makers
03:00 PM
Too many cards and handbooks! Fragmentation and integration of maternal, newborn and child health home-based records
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Satellite session
03:00 PM
Open deliver: a process for distributing quality-assured digital training content
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Skills building session
05:30 PM
Welcome Plenary: Resilient peoples, responsive health systems? Bringing indigenous understandings of health and wellness to health systems evaluation and improvement
Plenary
07:00 PM
Welcome Reception
Social networking
16 November
07:00 AM
Launch: Aging Populations and Responsive Health Systems
07:30 AM
Launch: Global Health in the Canadian Journal of Public Health - Special Section on Capacity Building for Global Health: Research and Practice
Launches
08:30 AM
Opening Plenary: Resilient and responsive health systems: learning from frontline experiences
Plenary
10:30 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Participatory action & social accountability/ Acción participativa y responsabilidad social
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
11:00 AM
Evaluation of new partnership models and approaches to strengthen health systems/ Évaluation de nouveaux modèles de partenariat et de nouvelles approches pour renforcer les systèmes de santé
Oral session
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
11:00 AM
Nurturing health system resilience through everyday leadership and reflective practice: experience from the DIAHLS and RESYST learning sites
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
11:00 AM
Building health care workforce capacity
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
Community engagement in power and politics
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
11:00 AM
Changing minds and changing budgets: funding strategies for Health Policy and Systems Research
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
Using empirical data and economic modelling for health systems improvement: the proven effectiveness of Cambodia’s health equity funds
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
CANCELLED - Power, politics, health systems values and resilience: what learning for implementing the SDGs from five decades and counting of struggle for UHC in Ghana
Organized session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
11:00 AM
Adapation and innovation in the health system: embedding quality improvement in community health in Africa and Asia
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
Current and emerging methods in health policy and systems research
Oral session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
11:00 AM
Building resilience into decentralized health systems
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
TWG: The ethics of health systems research priority-setting
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
HSG Thematic Working Group
11:00 AM
Building resilient and responsive health systems in fragile and conflict affected contexts: equity, rights and gender
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
11:00 AM
How Multimedia can help to improve and innovate health services and systems
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
Multimedia
11:00 AM
Closed session with Policy makers
12:30 PM
Lunch break / Poster sessions
Social networking
12:30 PM
Adapting to Change and Threats: Robust and Resilient Health Systems - From research to implementation in the Americas/ Adaptación al cambio y amenazas: Sistemas de salud resilientes y fortalecidos desde la investigación a la implementación en la Región de las Américas
12:30 PM
Translating Evidence into Action - TWG Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
12:30 PM
SHAPES TWG Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
12:30 PM
The Private Sector in Health - TWG Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
12:30 PM
Quality in Universal Health and Healthcare - TWG Dissemination Lunch
HSG Thematic Working Group
12:30 PM
Emerging Voices for Global Health - TWG Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
12:30 PM
Teaching and Learning HPSR - TWG Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
02:00 PM
Improving outcomes through community based initiatives/ Mejora de los resultados mediante iniciativas comunitarias
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
02:00 PM
Knowledge, health products and technology: key factors in building health system resilience/ Connaissances, produits de santé et technologie : facteurs clés pour accroître la résilience des systèmes de santé
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
02:00 PM
TWG: Building health system resilience in fragile states emerging from conflict or other forms of severe disruption
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
HSG Thematic Working Group
02:00 PM
Health reform – financing
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
02:00 PM
Health systems responsiveness to changing health and population needs
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
02:00 PM
Countdown to 2015: what can we learn from in-depth country case studies about how progress can be achieved in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health?
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
02:00 PM
Disability, equity and rights: sharing intersectional approaches to builiding responsive, resilient and inclusive health systems
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
02:00 PM
Power and prejudice: how does inequity play out in the institutions and processes of health systems research?
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
02:00 PM
Evaluation in health policy and systems research: spotlight on non-communicable diseases
Oral session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
02:00 PM
Strengthening general management including human resource management to improve health system resilience: lessons from East and Southern Africa
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
02:00 PM
Engaging with complexity in health policy and systems research: experience from applying three complex-sensitive approaches
Organized session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
02:00 PM
Enhancing resilience in health systems by investing in high-performing primary health care
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
02:00 PM
What does a focus on resilience add to strengthening health systems in practice? A multi-sectoral discussion based on recent experiences in West Africa
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
02:00 PM
Performing Resilience: Illness, Identity and Narrative
Multimedia
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
03:30 PM
Break
04:00 PM
Role of leadership and managerment in driving change/ Función de liderazgo y gestión al impulsar el cambio
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
04:00 PM
Out of pocket and catastrophic spending on health care: prevalence and prevention/ Dépenses de santé remboursables et catastrophiques : prévalence et prévention
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
04:00 PM
Application and challenges to the use of mixed methods in health systems research
Organized session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
04:00 PM
Studying power and health systems
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
04:00 PM
Partnered approaches to understanding health systems: university partnerships, data platforms, tools and measures
Oral session
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
04:00 PM
Working differently: using human-centered design to spur innovations in health care service delivery
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
04:00 PM
How well is your UHC system learning? A collaborative multi-country assessment
Organized session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
04:00 PM
Systematic documentation of community-oriented approaches to improve recognition of and appropriate care seeking for newborn and maternal complications
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Organized session
04:00 PM
Health systems levers for resilience: learning from natural disasters, crisis and conflict-affected situations
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
Complexity theory and health systems
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
Health systems innovations in responding to irrational use of antibiotics
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
04:00 PM
TWG: From Emerging Voices to Emerged Leaders: building capacity and negotiating power in our field
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
HSG Thematic Working Group
04:00 PM
Unlocking community capabilities as essential for health systems resilience in low and middle income countries: reflections on health systems experience and research across diverse contexts
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
Engaging power and politics in promoting health multimedia session
Multimedia
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
05:30 PM
Closed session with Policy Makers
06:00 PM
Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict affected StatesTWG
HSG Thematic Working Group
17 November
07:00 AM
Launch: WOTRO research programme
Launches
07:00 AM
Cancelled: Health Policy and Planning Supplement: Multi-country analysis of additional costs and resources for community-based maternal and newborn care with health systems implications for scale-up
Launches
07:00 AM
Launch: Joint Health Systems Research Initiative
Launches
07:00 AM
CHW TWG meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
07:45 AM
Launch: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research flagship report: “Open Mindsets: Participatory Leadership for Health
Launches
09:00 AM
Plenary: Intersectionality as a research approach to understanding and promoting resilience and responsiveness in health systems
Plenary
10:30 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Universal Health Coverage: what does it mean and how should we measure it?/ Couverture de santé universelle : de quoi s’agit-il et comment devrions-nous l’évaluer?
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
11:00 AM
La atención a la salud de los pueblos indígenas: desafíos, aprendizajes e inequidades en los sistemas de salud de América Latina/ Attention to health of indigenous peoples: challenges, learnings and inequities in health systems in Latin America
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
11:00 AM
Scaling-up: a neglected focus of implementation research?
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
Donors, partners and health systems: changing and redefining roles
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
11:00 AM
Health reform – governance
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
11:00 AM
South-South collaboration in teaching and learning about health policy and systems research
Organized session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
11:00 AM
Opportunities and challenges: integrating mHealth into low and middle income health systems
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
Modeling health systems resilience in contexts of conflict: identifying emerging lessons from case studies in Cote d'Ivoire, northern Nigeria and Gaza
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
11:00 AM
Improving quality of HIV and TB care
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
Driving the potential of community-based partnerships and institutional capacity building for health systems research
Oral session
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
11:00 AM
Taking results based financing from scheme to system
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
11:00 AM
TWG: Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world: the role of health markets in managing antibiotic use in low and middle income countries
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
HSG Thematic Working Group
11:00 AM
Resilient health systems buffers? The every-day role of non-state (faith-based) African health providers
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
11:00 AM
Equity and Rights in Health Systems: Take 2
Multimedia
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
11:00 AM
Closed session with Policy makers
12:30 PM
Lunch break / poster sessions
Social networking
12:45 PM
Health Systems Global Annual General Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
02:00 PM
Strengthening partnerships to improve knowledge exchange impacts/ Renforcer les partenariats pour améliorer l’impact de l’échange de connaissances
Oral session
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
02:00 PM
Exploring dimensions of health service equity and access for vulnerable populations
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
02:00 PM
TWG: How have the social science approaches for research and engagement helped enhance health systems resilience and responsiveness?
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
HSG Thematic Working Group
02:00 PM
Strengthening measurement for better outcomes
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
02:00 PM
Novel strategies for research and capacity building in health systems research: from national experiences to South-South collaboration
Oral session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
02:00 PM
Promising strategies for building resilience of health systems in fragile settings
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
02:00 PM
Reflections on teaching and learning systems thinking
Organized session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
02:00 PM
Building inclusive and responsive health systems for informal workers: a global review of health status, access and barriers to health care for informal workers
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
02:00 PM
Improving coverage and implementing at scale
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
02:00 PM
Strengthening the supply of pharmaceuticals and other commodities
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
02:00 PM
Participatory Leadership in Health Systems
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
02:00 PM
Global health research and corporate funding sources: a decision-making tool for individuals and organizations
Organized session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
02:00 PM
Negotiating power and politics when transitioning health programs from external to local support
Organized session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
02:00 PM
Understanding health system resilience in conflict and crisis affected settings
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
Multimedia
03:30 PM
Break
04:00 PM
The role of community engagement to improve health systems resilience
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
Results-based financing of health care: lessons emerging across Africa/ Financement des soins de santé axé sur les résultats : leçons tirées de l’Afrique
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
04:00 PM
Developing resilient health systems: sharing policy makers’ experience
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
Mothers, babies and children: at the heart of a resilient health system
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
The contribution of civil society organisations to achieving ‘health for all’: lessons from the grassroots
Organized session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
04:00 PM
Impact of the initiative: improving health program implementation through embedded research (iPIER) in Latin America and the Caribbean
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
04:00 PM
TWG: Evaluation designs for health system improvement interventions in low and middle income countries
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
HSG Thematic Working Group
04:00 PM
Rapid urbanization and the private health care sector imperative: understanding motivations and entry points for enhancing health systems engagement and sustaining health gains in Bangladesh
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
04:00 PM
Distribution and responsivness of different service delivery models
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
04:00 PM
Task-shifting to improve care delivery
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
04:00 PM
Stewardship at 16 – coming of age or arrested development? Perspectives from Benin, Ghana and India
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Organized session
04:00 PM
TWG: Decoding knowledge translation: initiatives, institutions, and perspectives on moving from knowledge to action and working across constituencies for policy and programme change
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
HSG Thematic Working Group
04:00 PM
Examining the role of community based primary health care models in addressing health equity and disparities in Canadian Aboriginal Communities: a challenge panel
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
04:00 PM
Multimedia for dissemination, participation and training towards strengthening the resilience of health systems
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Multimedia
05:30 PM
Closed session with Policy makers
06:00 PM
Quality in Universal Health and Healthcare - TWG
HSG Thematic Working Group
07:30 PM
Social night: A taste of Canada
Social networking
18 November
08:30 AM
Building resilience in community-based health systems: lessons learned in four countries impacted by Ebola or other crises
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
08:30 AM
Using mHealth to support better care/ Utiliser mHealth pour favoriser de meilleurs soins
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
08:30 AM
Beyond the next zika : what are we (not) learning from crises?
Organized session
08:30 AM
Interface between global and national
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
08:30 AM
Interventions to improve quality of care
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
08:30 AM
TWG: Innovations in teaching health policy and systems research
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
HSG Thematic Working Group
08:30 AM
Strengthening health sector resilience in fragile, conflict and violence settings
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
08:30 AM
The bridges that span resilient health systems: interdisciplines and intersections
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Organized session
08:30 AM
Towards new methods and frameworks: accounting for health system complexity when evaluating health systems strengthening
Oral session
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
08:30 AM
Translating knowledge into practice and policy
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
08:30 AM
Financial incentives in health: results from impact evaluation studies of performance based financing and a broader reflection using a meta-analysis framework
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
08:30 AM
How to promote a resilient heath workforce in conflict affected areas: insights from health workers and policymakers in four countries
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
08:30 AM
Policymaker-researcher collaborations in improving access to medicines: getting the prescription right
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Organized session
08:30 AM
Engaging communities: Change agents, Advocacy & Accountability
Multimedia
Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development
10:00 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Models, risks and challenges of transitioning health programs from donors to countries: finance and governance
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
10:30 AM
Power in health service provision: articulating and mediating women's reproductive rights and justice/ Le pouvoir dans le cadre de la prestation de services de santé : exprimer et arbitrer les droits génésiques des femmes et la justice reproductive
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
10:30 AM
Strengthening health systems toward universal access to health and universal health coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
10:30 AM
Ethics and equity in health systems research collaborations and conduct
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
10:30 AM
Politics and evidence
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
10:30 AM
TWG: Access to novel, high-cost cancer medicines – towards a more holistic, ethical and practical framework for health system decisions
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
HSG Thematic Working Group
10:30 AM
Blurring the lines: ethical considerations when research is embedded in policy and practice
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
10:30 AM
COPASAH as a global collaborative partnership of public health accountability practitioners for engaging with and strengthening health systems for increasing access to health services
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Organized session
10:30 AM
Raising the voice of the patient and community
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
10:30 AM
Understanding variation in maternal and newborn outcomes
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
10:30 AM
Understanding causes of inequitable coverage of social health protection programmes: do knowledge paradigms matter for research and policy?
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
Organized session
10:30 AM
Policy responsive systematic reviews for maintaining the resilience of health systems: a process reflection on co-creating systematic reviews through policy maker engagement
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
10:30 AM
Meet the Editors: current opportunities and challenges in publishing HPSR
Organized session
10:30 AM
Everyday resilience of people and health systems in low resource settings
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
Multimedia
10:30 AM
Closed session with Policy makers
12:00 PM
Lunch break / Posters
Social networking
12:00 PM
Medicines in Health Systems - TWG
HSG Thematic Working Group
12:00 PM
Ethics of Health Systems Research - TWG Meeting
HSG Thematic Working Group
01:30 PM
Challenges of improving maternal and child health in Africa: is innovation the solution?/ Défis liés à l’amélioration de la santé maternelle et infantile en Afrique : l’innovation est-elle la solution?
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
01:30 PM
Policies, politics and partnerships framing and realizing rights for the most marginalized/ Establecimiento de políticas y asociaciones y materialización de los derechos de los más marginados
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
01:30 PM
What role for research? Recommendations and actions arising from the High-Level Commission on Health Employment & Economic Growth
Organized session
01:30 PM
Integrating ethical values and human rights concerns into health system operations
Oral session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
01:30 PM
Role of governance and accountability in improving health system performance
Oral session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
01:30 PM
TWG: Increasing the voice of community health workers in building resilient and responsive health systems
New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development
HSG Thematic Working Group
01:30 PM
Achieving responsive health systems using responsive supports for evidence-informed policymaking
Organized session
Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems
01:30 PM
Priorities for resilient health systems: Integrating equity and cost-effectiveness
Organized session
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
01:30 PM
Resilience, conflict and post conflict settings
Oral session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
01:30 PM
Universal health coverage as a pathway to resilience: quality and financing
Oral session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
01:30 PM
Analyzing power and politics in health policy and systems research: theories, methods, issues
Organized session
Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
01:30 PM
The political economy of resilient health systems: an emerging discourse
Organized session
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
01:30 PM
Stories of resilience from the frontline
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains
Multimedia
03:00 PM
Break
03:30 PM
Closing plenary: Looking back to look forward: sharpening how we address the challenges of a changing world
Plenary
05:30 PM
Closed session with Policy makers
Keynote speakers
Asha George
South African Research Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change
University of the Western Cape
Karina Gould
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development et la Francophonie
Government of Canada
Malcolm King
Scientific Director
CIHR Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health; Simon Fraser University
Karsor Kollie
Program Director, Neglected Tropical and Non Communicable Disease Program
Liberia Ministry of Health
Arash Rashidian
Director of Information, Evidence and Research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
World Health Organization
TK Sundari Ravindran
Professor
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
Daniel Reidpath
Professor of Population Health and Head of Public Health
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
Rajani Ved
Advisor, Community Processes and Primary Health Care
National Health Systems Resource Center, India
Nana Yaa Boadu
Policy Analyst, Office of International Affairs for the Health Portfolio
Public Health Agency of Canada
Sponsors
The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) is the first province-wide health authority of its kind in Canada with the vision of transforming the health and well-being of BC’s First Nations and Aboriginal people by dramatically changing healthcare for the better.
Local hosts
Exhibitors
Posters
Wednesday Posters - Engaging Power and Politics
Theme: Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value
Wednesday Posters: Enhancing health system resilience:
Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains in every setting
Thursday Posters: Equity, rights, gender and ethics
Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems
Thursday Posters: Future learning and evaluation approaches
Future learning and evaluation approaches