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Latest news

Adoption by NAFDAC Minilab equipment for testing quality of antimalarial drugs Nigeria Tribune November 2009

Stakeholders meet on Malaria services at community level, Nigera Tribune June 2009

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

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

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

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

Gerry Bloom, IDS fellow, is featured in Real Health News talking about his research in China.

"Snippets of Achievement"
Read the latest health newsletter from Nigeria. More..

WHO Bulletin

Researchers from Future Health Systems were featured in a recent edition. More..

Unsafe abortion

FHS contribute to a letter published in June in 'The Economist'. More...

More money for Future Health System Partner

Institute of Public Health, Makerere University wins grant to establish centre for systematic review of health policy and systems research. More...

World Health Day

IDS World Health Day podcast
David Peters, Director of Future Health Systems and Gerry Bloom, IDS Research fellow share their thoughts on the theme of international health security. More..

News feeds from favoured sites

Health research from Research for Development

Health research from Eldis

Conferences and Events

FHS have a number of activities and sessions planned for the Geneva Health Forum 19-21 April 2010, including the opening plenary.

The publics of public health conference in Kilifi reflected on the changing notions of ‘the public’ in relation to the production of medical knowledge and health in contemporary Africa.

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

Future Health Systems at the International Health Economics Association Conference 2009

Capacity Building Workshop on conducting household surveys held in Beijing, June 09

Papers from Future Health Systems were featured in The Global Forum Update on Research which was 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)

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

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

Future Health Systems were represented at the Geneva Health Forum.

FHS Communications capacity building workshop, Sussex 08
Effective communication is crucial to maximising the impact of development research. Yet spaces are rarely created for research institutions to share their experiences and plan how to improve their communication work’s effectiveness.

Capacity Building Workshop on multilevel modelling held at the Makerere University School of Public Health April 08

Baltimore-Washington Health Systems Study Group
FHS is leading a monthly series of symposia in which local researchers are meeting to discuss their common interest in studying global health systems. The first meeting was held in March 2008. More..

Knowledge for action on equity in health in Uganda

Makerere University, School of Public Health and
HEPS Uganda – Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development organised this meeting which was held in Kamapala in March.

The meeting aimed to assess the progress of equity in health in Uganda. It reviewed gaps and needs in the Ugandan health sector, to feed into and draw from experience in East and Southern Africa.

FHS presented two sessions at the conference.

1. Changes in Utilisation of Health Services among Poor and Rural Residents in Uganda (Elizabeth Ekirapa)
2. Access to and Utilisation of Health Services for the Poor and Vulnerable in Uganda: A systematic Review of Available evidence (Susanne Kiwanuka)

Read more..

Global forum for health research, Beijing

FHS were involved in a number of activities at the Forum. This included a poster presentation and a stand.

Presentation at the UK House of Commons

Gerry Bloom, FHS researcher, made a presentation to a joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid and Trade and the All Parliamentary Group for the Pharmaceutical Industry at the House of Commons in July. More...

IHEA

News from FHS participation at the International Health Economics (IHEA), held in Copenhagen, Denmark in July . More..

The Institutional Foundations of Rural Health

A workshop on the Institutional Foundations of Rural Health was held at Tsinghua University on 17th June 2007. Researchers from FHS participated. More...

Nigeria capacity building workshop March

A 3 day workshop was organised by FHS Nigeria on Quantitative Research Methods. The aim was to strengthen the capacity of the FHS Nigeria researchers and the University of Ibadan on quantitative research methods for postgraduate students and faculty members. 45 participants attended the workshop. One of the participants described it as "'enriching and eye opening".