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Building stronger, fairer health systems grounded in local priorities, aligned with global goals.
Annual report 2025
Our 2025 annual report is out. 109 projects across 41 countries and territories. Four stories of change in health policy and systems research.
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Read stories of change and see how – and where – the Alliance is catalysing evidence-informed change to strengthen health systems.
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Transforming health systems
Supporting countries by generating evidence and supporting locally driven change to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) through strengthening systems and services based on a primary health care (PHC) approach.
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Harnessing digital health
Supporting research to understand how digital health – including artificial intelligence – can enhance service delivery, empower users and support better decision-making, helping countries integrate digital health into national systems.
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Preventing noncommunicable diseases
Supporting research to prevent premature death and disability from NCDs, focusing on primary prevention, commercial determinants, and fiscal measures like health taxes to advance health equity.
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Strengthening climate resilience
Integrating health into climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, helping countries identify actions, and bridging the gap between health systems and climate action.
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Preparing for and responding to emergencies
Supporting research on governance of public health agencies and service delivery in conflict settings to build resilient systems in fragile and protracted crisis environments.
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Aligning knowledge ecosystems
Shifting from individual training to institutional engagement, systems change and policy-maker involvement to build research ecosystems that connect evidence to policy, especially in under-represented contexts.
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All →This annual report presents the activities, outputs and impact of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research in 2025, within a rapidly evolving...
6 May 2026
Health reform manual
Strengthening health systems to achieve universal health coverage and improved population outcomes requires structured approaches that can navigate technical...
In 2024, the Alliance began implementing its new strategy, Aiming for impact (2024-2028). Around the world, we have advanced work in each of our focus...
As countries face growing health financing cliffs due to declining external aid and mounting domestic fiscal pressures, the risk of reversing hard-won...