Beyond Scaling Up workshop

>> Find out about our May workshop, with presentations, video and more

Feature on the FHS Safe Deliveries Project in Uganda's New Vision newspaper

Chasing goals rather than solving problems?
An article in Global Health magazine features work by Peters et al, in the 2009 The World Bank's Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries: From Evidence to Action.
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Future Health Systems have a number of activities planned for the Geneva Health Forum 19-21 April, including hosting the opening plenary.
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Future Health Systems partner organisation, IIHMR, hosted the annual planning meeting this year on 6-7 January in Kolkata. The highlight was a symposium to launch a new report on Challenges for health care in the Sunderbans area of West Bengal.
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Empowering communities for better healthcare
A new Research Brief from the Bangladesh team based at ICDDR,B explores the community health watch process (pdf).

New! The publics of public health
Conference in Kilifi reflects on changing notions of ‘the public’ in relation to the production of medical knowledge and health in contemporary Africa.

Introduction to health systems online course

FHS article on Lack of effective communication between communities and hospitals in Uganda now published in biomed central

FHS article in Nigerian Tribune June 09

Latest FHS newsletter from Nigeria, July 09 (pdf)

FHS Data Analysis Workshop held for chinese researchers, Beijing, July 09

FHS Bangladesh Research Brief on the Costs of utilizing healthcare services in Chakaria, a rural area in Bangladesh, June 2009 (pdf)

FHS Bangladesh work on the performance based payment Chakaria Voucher Experience published.

Health systems reporter: focus on health systems stewardship in Afghanistan

FHS at iHEA 09, Beijing
Photos, Blogs, powerpoint presentations and posters from the conference available to view.

FHS researchers have a letter in the British Medical Journal in response to the recent OXFAM report on the private sector and health
>> Read the BMJ letter in response to OXFAM
>> Read a longer response to the OXFAM report

Eldis Health Reporter linked to the Future Health Systems session on July 15 at iHEA
>>Increasing access to health services by poor people

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”


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

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