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

New pages on health markets.

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).

Call for abstracts
Conference on Scaling Up of Health Programs in Low-Income Countries, December 3-6, 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

New Paper from FHS
Poverty and access to healthcare in developing countries is the subject of our paper in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Bangladesh Health Watch report looks at the health workforce crisis.

Capacity Building Workshops on conducting household surveys held in Beijing and multi level modelling held in Uganda.

Melissa Leach and James Fairhead, from Future Health System's partner the STEPS Centre, have been featured in the WHO Bulletin: 'Understandings of immunization: some west African perspectives.' (pdf)

Our colleagues from IDS discuss the future of primary health care on the STEPS Centre blog.

Our colleague Kakaire A. Kirunda in the news in Uganda
Ever wondered what quality means in terms of health facilities in Uganda? Read our article in the Daily Monitor.

Future Health Systems were represented at the Geneva Health Forum.

Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine (pdf)
With contributions from Future Health Systems' partners this special issue offers suggestions on how to build future oriented health systems that meet the needs of the poor.