News and events

Helping media professionals

Future Health Systems are delighted to help media professionals access the latest news and resources from our research as quickly and easily as possible. We are also happy to field spokespeople and to offer technical input to news stories.

If you can’t find what you need on the website, please get in touch with our communications officer, Kate Hawkins, in one of the following ways:

Tel +44 (0)1273 876813
Skype katecommsids
Email k.hawkins@ids.ac.uk

Latest news

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..

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..

Conferences and Events

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 Dr Susanne (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".

Future Health Systems: Uganda Workshop, January

This workshop took place in Entebbe, Uganda in January. More....