Beyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access
Future Health Systems and our affiliate The STEPS Centre are launching a series of activities that challenge the thinking behind prevailing concepts of “scaling up”.
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Why women shun antenatal care.
>> Read the article on FHS research in Uganda's daily monitor

Chronic illness centre at ICDDR,B Bangladesh now launched
>> Read the press release
>> Read comment in the Lancet

Future Health Systems India Team investigates health of the affected population after the cyclone Aila hit the Sunderbans on May 25, 2009>> Read the article

New book launched
Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries: From Evidence to Action.

Training programme organized by FHS-India to build the research capacity of the Afghan Public Health Institute, June, 2009.
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Rockefeller Reports on the Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems in Developing Countries now available online.
>> read here

Indian elections: a formality or a step towards change in health provision.
>>Read comment piece by Barun Kanjilal, IIHMR, Jaipur

FHS in The Guardian (Nigeria) Race against time in the fight against malaria

FHS in the Uganda Daily Monitor Health sector funding rises but services remain poor

Uganda FHS paper published Increasing access to quality health care for the poor: Community perceptions on quality care in Uganda

New FHS research in Focus: The role of Misoprostol on making home births safer

Press release - March 09

Sutherland T and Bishai DM. ‘Cost-effectiveness of misoprostol and prenatal iron supplementation as maternal mortality interventions in home births in rural India’ International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, (2008)

The latest edition of id21 insights on making health markets work for poor people, produced in collaboration with Future Health Systems, is now available. 

Future Health Systems Bangladesh team receives Rockefeller Grant for Shasthya Sena.

ASCON XII

FHS researchers win best oral presentation prize and FHS host a special session at the 12th Annual Scientific Conference in Dhaka.

>> News from the conference

>> winners photo

>> FHS photo

New FHS book

Health for the rural masses: Insights from Chakaria’, edited by Abbas Bhuiya and written by members of the Bangladesh team. Available from ICDDR,B

>> see cover

Future Health Systems was active at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference -
Mainstreaming Health into Public Policies, Bangkok.
>>Read more about the panel we participated in

Conference on the role of innovators and entrepreneurs in improving the performance of private providers of healthcare Abuja, Nigeria 12th-13th January 2009.

>> Conference update

>> Media release

>> Newspaper article1

>> Newspaper article2

>> Speech by the Rt Hon Dimeji S Bankole, House of Representatives, Nigeria

FHS held it's annual meeting in Nigeria, January 2009

>> Newsletter

>> Presentations

New Eldis Key Issues Guide
Edited by Adnan Hyder of Johns Hopkins University this is a guide to resources on injuries and violence.

Silent Deaths - Raise a Voice Read FHS researcher Bill Brieger's Malaria blog

Future Health Systems in the Lancet
David Bishai of Johns Hopkins University has an article on 'Global Initiatives in childhood immunisation'.
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Our Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine (pdf) has been featured on the USAID Health Systems 20/20 blog.
>>Read more about the special issue
>> Read the blog

International Conference on Scaling Up of Health Programs in Low-Income Countries
>>Read a commentary on the conference from IDS Director Lawrence Haddad
>>More on the conference

Primary Health Care resources
Gerald Bloom participated in a colloquium at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, November 26 - 27, 2008.
>>Read more about the colloquium
>>Download his presentation on the future of primary health care
>>View all the presentations on the Institute of Tropical Medicine website

New research briefs from India.
>>Catastrophic Health Care Payment: how protected are the users of public hospitals? (pdf)
>>Barriers to access immunization services: a
study in Murshidabad, West Bengal (pdf)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agreed to fund Johns Hopkins University and Makerere University to Collaborate on a 10-year institution-building initiative between the two universities.

Powerpoint presentations from Future Health Systems are now available online through SlideShare.

Papers from Future Health Systems are featured in The Global Forum Update on Research which will be launched at the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health in Bamako, Mali, 17-19 November 2008
>>Health markets and future health systems: innovation
for equity (pdf)
>>Health dynamics, innovation and the slow race to make technology work for the poor (pdf)

Global Forum on Health Research
Forum 2009 will focus on innovations in how systems of research for health are organized, managed, financed and applied. It will take place in Cuba from the 16-20 November.

Meeting on health insurance and the poor
The Platform for Health Insurance for the Poor and the Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation are organising an international seminar on Health insurance for the poor: what works why? Lessons from Asia.

Blog impact
Our blog on primary health care was featured in background resources for the Geneva Health Forum (pdf).

Reaching out to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers
Kate Hawkins has been published in the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2008 ‘Every Woman Counts: How Can We Act to Improve Maternal Health?’

Expansion of the China Health and Development Forum
The signing of a memorandum of understanding between the China Health Economics Institute and the Lao National Institute of Public Health takes this research policy platform to the regional level.
>>Read all about it in a news story in the Vientiane Times>>The Lao PDR Vice Minister of Health Dr. Bounkouang Phichit comments on the partnership

Online resource on Building Future Health Systems to deliver Primary Health Care.
>> Read more (pdf)
>> Access the online resource

Policy brief on the health-seeking behaviour of the people in Chakaria, a rural area in Bangladesh (pdf).

Paper on Social Franchising to Improve Quality and Access in Private Health Care in Developing Countries published.

Paper on Regulating Health Care Markets in China and India published.

Press coverage for our Uganda partners
The Makerere University School of Public Health is featured in the Daily Monitor.

Policy brief from India
This brief from our partners at the Institute of Health Management Research looks at the role of informal health providers in West Bengal (pdf).

Future Health Systems were represented at the Geneva Health Forum.