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Country pathways to 2050: shaping the future, not waiting for it

Country pathways to 2050: shaping the future, not waiting for it, . The governance decisions shaping AI's role in the health workforce, she warned, are being made now, often, a thinly stretched workforce. "We don't want to shift from primary health care," he said, lifetime, he noted. "How much has the way we receive health care changed in my lifetime?" he asked, get it, then you often wait an indeterminate length of time to be seen." That model, he argued, Scientist at WHO, drew the threads together. "The future will not unfold in a uniform way," she said. Two

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/27-05-2026-country-pathways-to-2050-shaping-the-future-not-waiting-for-it
Digital health wallets must be owned and trusted by people

Digital health wallets must be owned and trusted by people, for Health Systems, described that digital health wallets “hold the promise of a portable, trusted, panellists showed that person-centred digital health wallets are already delivering at scale. In Kenya, the national wallet is called Afya Yangu – “Afya” means health, “Yangu” means mine. Eng. Antony, frameworks that span many sectors. “We are not trying to align anyone,” he said. “We want to allow, of the partnership’s purpose: “A digital health wallet is not just a container for past records. It

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/21-05-2026-digital-health-wallets-must-be-owned-and-trusted-by-people
Digital health wallets for better continuity of care

Digital health wallets for better continuity of care, implement interoperable digital health wallets. It will bring together ministries of health, digital

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/events/item/2026/05/17/default-calendar/digital-health-wallets-for-better-continuity-of-care
Five ways health policy and systems research is strengthening vaccine uptake

Five ways health policy and systems research is strengthening vaccine uptake, are spotlighting five ways the Alliance, and the research projects we support, are contributing to increased, and institutionalized catch-up vaccination in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The five

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/24-04-2026-five-ways-health-policy-and-systems-research-is-strengthening-vaccine-uptake
Understanding the best way to frame, expand and accelerate the implementation of health taxes

Understanding the best way to frame, expand and accelerate the implementation of health taxes, the tobacco industry’s cost–benefit assessments by making an argument in favor of taxes as a way

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/24-10-2023-understanding-the-best-way-to-frame-expand-and-accelerate-the-implementation-of-health-taxes
Seizing power: health policy and systems research at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026 in Nairobi

. Africa has an opportunity to lead in its own way, the group concluded, shaping the future it wants, of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme warned against treating it as a technical fix, since it, interventions at an institutional level?" Professor Rhoda Wanyenze of Makerere University School

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/09-07-2026-seizing-power-health-policy-and-systems-research-at-the-world-health-summit-regional-meeting-2026-in-nairobi
The Alliance at the 75th World Health Assembly

’s gathering. It kicked off on Sunday, 22 May, with the Walk the Talk event. Dr Abdul Ghaffar, the Executive Director of the Alliance, walked the three kilometers around Geneva with WHO Director, Abdul Ghaffar from the Alliance stressed that embedding implementation research into ways of working

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/27-05-2022-the-alliance-at-the-75th-world-health-assembly
How countries are rethinking their national public health agencies

had struggled during COVID‑19 and how they could be strengthened. The research was a way to surface, our skills and knowledge are fully used. We want a mechanism that can pull in focal points from, Acting Head of Health Protection, Fiji CDC Watch the Fiji film → Singapore’s approach, One Health network had already spent years building warm working relationships across government, and articulate the way in which evidence has informed decisions. A television camera and lighting

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/14-05-2026-how-countries-are-rethinking-their-national-public-health-agencies
Increasing immunization coverage through embedded implementation research in Ogun State, Nigeria

what was occurring in these LGAs and to try to find ways of improving vaccination coverage rates, Institute in the Netherlands (KIT) proposed an investigation of the issue in two wards in Remo North, access to and use of immunization services in these wards. The research project was embedded into the National Programme on Immunization in these focal wards and received funding and support from, and ways to minimize AEFI. The embedded research project helped bring together key stakeholders

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/01-09-2019-nigeria-increasing-immunization-coverage-through-embedded-implementation-research-in-ogun-state
Exploring the future of health systems: Alliance convenes HS2050 expert meeting in Accra

and health systems. This historical lens explored how key moments – like the world wars, modern travel, requiring enormous electricity and water resources. The group agreed that the future of AI in health systems, many attacks on health facilities since the Second World War,” Dr Joanne Liu, Professor at McGill, justice. Dr Ramya Kumar, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington but currently, that this work can inform the crucial choices to move health systems towards the futures we want

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/01-12-2025-exploring-the-future-of-health-systems-alliance-convenes-hs2050-expert-meeting-in-accra
The Alliance Lift: Dr Shalom Ndoula in conversation with Dr Daniela Rodríguez

physician in northern Cameroon. How did those early experiences shape the way you think about health, old, I already wanted to become a doctor. When I finished medical school, I believed that public, completely. I realized I wanted to work at the level of prevention – at the first step before people, vaccinating only girls?” Scientifically, the policy made sense. But communities also wanted fairness, are being missed. We also wanted to diversify the voices involved in immunization research. Traditionally

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/20-05-2026-the-alliance-lift-dr-shalom-ndoula-in-conversation-with-dr-daniela-rodríguez
The Alliance Lift: Dr Eric Ssegujja in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed

and the networks I was part of. I worked on a project led by Professor Peter Waiswa that aimed, and theories right. It goes two ways: you can either get lost in your own methods or the methods can lose you along the way. The other teams that we met in Ethiopia had interesting approaches, and it, . How has your earlier journey shaped the way you work today? My work now revolves around teaching, . In the past, we relied on each other – you’d ask another human when you hit a wall. Now, artificial

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/07-07-2025-the-alliance-lift-an-interview-with-dr-eric-ssegujja
Better questions, better health: rethinking research systems of knowledge production

multi-year initiative, Better ways of knowing. Co-led by the Alliance and the Washington University, these insights and learning to help shape and create better ways of knowing reframing efforts to develop clearer, – not only in formal research. This initiative advances practical ways to value, combine and apply, Professor at Washington University School of Public Health, Dr Salma Abdalla summarized the challenge

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/31-03-2026-better-questions-better-health-rethinking-research-systems-of-knowledge-production
The Alliance Lift: Dr Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed

and the patients. The way they handled obstacles, especially cultural barriers and limited access to good care, and hepatitis B in Indigenous communities. People in the health sector didn’t want me to talk about, to broader health systems research? I wanted to do more. I saw how Indigenous people weren’t being, , national and local levels. Q: How has your academic and professional journey  has influenced the way, that again in the Amazon. Also, the way Indigenous communities care for animals – it’s very different from

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/17-06-2025-the-alliance-lift-an-interview-with-dr-carol-zavaleta-cortijo
Seeing the full picture: a special podcast series

System thinking is described as a way of seeing; an approach towards problem-solving that considers problems in the context of the wider system and places an emphasis on the interdependencies across systems components, instead of focusing on individual components on their own. It is applied, and systems research was coming out, my interest was piqued. But I wasn’t sure if I was part of that tribe, suppose in a way, Stephen’s and my journey through trying to understand this a little bit for ourselves

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/29-07-2021-seeing-the-full-picture-a-special-podcast-series
The Alliance Lift: Dr Katherine Ann Reyes in conversation with Mr Jeffrey Knezovich

. Health because I have always been drawn to the health sector and wanted to have an impact. Curiosity because I was interested in the lives of my patients beyond the hospital walls – understanding what really drives sickness and illness. Growth because I have always wanted to keep building my skills, vaccination in different ways. Q: Co-creation is central to your work. What does that mean in practice

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/26-01-2026-the-alliance-lift-dr-katherine-ann-reyes-in-conversation-with-mr-jeffrey-knezovich
Insights on impact: key takeaways from a recent event

of the day, though, the way she navigates these murky waters, her polestar is science. The event, in Thailand, urged academics to step down from their so-called ivory tower and find ways, and not just on publishing research in high-impact journals. The way forward As part of the panel discussion

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/05-06-2024-insights-on-impact-key-takeaways-from-a-recent-event
The Alliance at the World Health Summit

and examining together and potentially warranting replication across Europe. On the road to HSR2026, is a driver of peace and sustainable development. War and conflict may lead to the disruption of health

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/events/item/2025/10/12/default-calendar/the-alliance-at-the-world-health-summit
The Alliance Lift: Dr Rachidatou Compaoré in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed

witnessed firsthand in hospital wards that couldn’t be solved by medicine alone. In this interview, also, settings in Africa. I was in the paediatric wards, seeing these little babies, small kids suffering – and most of the time, it wasn’t only medical care that they needed. There were other factors, to translate it in a way that is understandable to policy-makers, but also to communities, to have a better, by shifting the way we frame it and give more leadership to local researchers, local policy-makers

https://ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/news/item/28-10-2025-the-alliance-lift-dr-rachidatou-compaoré-in-conversation-with-ms-idil-shekh-mohamed
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