Over the past 25 years, the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) has emerged as a cornerstone of strong health systems, enabling healthy populations, ensuring health security and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The fourth in a series of seminars coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, this event on the sidelines of the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, will focus attention on the role of HPSR in moving countries closer towards UHC. It will also be an opportunity to reflect on findings of a research programme supported by the Alliance in partnership with the WHO Department of Health Governance and Financing and UHC2030 that has been informing how countries and development partners can better manage donor transitions towards sustaining coverage of critical health interventions previously supported by donors in the absence of donor funding.
Objectives
- To reflect on the state of health policy and systems research (HPSR), its achievements and potential to inform the move towards UHC;
- To understand HPSR’s added value in informing UHC policies from the perspective of senior policy-makers;
- To understand what development partners and national governments can do to enable donor transition processes to lead to sustained intervention coverage post-transition; and
- To inform the development of a set of evidence-informed principles and best practices that development partners and countries can adopt to ensure sustained intervention coverage post-transition.
Confirmed speakers
- Jeremy FARRAR, Chief Scientist, WHO
- Precious MATSOSO, Co-chair, Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB)
- Kumanan RASANATHAN, Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO
- Susan SPARKES, Technical Officer, WHO Department of Health Governance and Financing
- Zubin SHROFF, Technical Officer, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO
- Kalipso CHALKIDOU, Head of Health Finance, Global Fund
- TANG Kun, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
- George GOTSADZE, Director, Curatio International Foundation
- Marjolaine NICOD, Coordinator, UHC2030