The COVID-19 pandemic showed the impact of governance on essential public health functions. Several countries are reforming their national public health agencies (NPHAs). This session seeks to better understand ongoing efforts at national level to reform NPHAs and to examine the potential and promise of health policy and systems research in informing such efforts. This session will present an overview of the work programme on NPHA Governance being undertaken by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the WHO Emergencies Programme and gather reflections from NPHAs and partners on how this research can inform and improve NPHA reform efforts.
Speakers
- Neima Zeynu Ali – Ethiopian Public Health Institute
- Mahendra Arnold – Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
- Sara Bennett – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Shelly Bratton – United States of America Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ana Lorena Guerrero Torres – Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO
- Johanna Hanefeld – Robert Koch Institute, Germany
- Sara Hersey – WHO Emergencies Programme
- Tania Maria Peixoto Fonseca – Fiocruz Brazil
- Kumanan Rasanathan – Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO
- Tomoya Saito – National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
- Zubin Shroff – Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO