Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Call for abstracts: Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage Deadline: 30 April 2010
"….To share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that reflects the needs of low and middle-income countries."
 
The symposium will be dedicated to improving the scientific evidence needed by health policy-makers and practitioners to inform their decisions related to accelerating universal health coverage. Achieving and sustaining universal health coverage requires attention to a broad range of issues that are central to health systems performance. This includes drawing on the six interdependent health system building blocks 
– finance, workforce, services, technologies, information, and governance –
and understanding how policies and programmes from within and beyond the health sector can be developed and implemented effectively, efficiently, and equitably.
 
Specific symposium objectives —

• share state-of-the art research on universal health coverage;
• develop a global agenda of priority research on accelerating progress towards universal health coverage;
• facilitate greater research collaboration and learning communities across disciplines, sectors, initiatives and countries;
• strengthen the scientific rigor of the field of health systems research including concepts, frameworks, measures and methods; and
• identify mechanisms for strengthening capacities – individual, institutional and infrastructural – for research on health systems particularly in low- and middle-income countries.