by iphindia | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog, Latest Updates
Manoj Kumar Pati is a public health researcher at the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru. He has a masters in public health (MPH) in health system management. His research interests are implementation research, equity research, epidemiology and non-communicable diseases.
We are increasingly seeing several service delivery programmes running at country level, particularly in South East Asia. For example, in India, we have seen the implementation of many programmes that are top-down and vertical in nature. Citizen demand has never been considered while implementing social security schemes for health and different political environments present significant challenges for sustainable service delivery.
We heard the voices of young health systems researchers and their mentors loud and clear the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) organized session on day one of the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The EV4GH, is a unique Thematic Working Group of the Health Systems Global.
The opening plenary of the Symposium, set the scene for the challenges faced by the global health community highlighting the need for resilient and responsive health systems in the 21st century. The diverse panel brought a range of issues to the table from citizen’s choices and voices, primary health care, universal health coverage (UHC) to issues of health of immigrants and migrants.
by iphindia | Dec 1, 2015 | Latest Updates
Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) is an innovative multi-partner blended training program that includes face-to-face training and virtual training components, for young, promising and emerging health policy & systems researchers, decision-makers and other health system professionals with an interest in becoming influential global health voices and/or local change makers, particularly in LMIC. Four previous EV4GH editions have been organized, all linked to an international or regional global health event.
In 2016, continuing with the tradition of partnering with a significant health systems research symposium, there will be a new edition of EV4GH in close association and partnership with the 4th Global Symposium on health systems research (Vancouver symposium), organised by Health Systems Global. The theme for the Vancouver symposium is ‘Resilient and responsive Health Systems for a changing world’. The symposium will take place from 14-18 November, 2016 at Vancouver.
Institute of Public Health (IPH) India was recently announced as the new secretariat of EV4GH (2015-16). EV4GH has a globally representative governance structure comprised of members from all the regions. IPH faculty, Dr. Prashanth N S has taken over as the chairperson of the governance board with eight other young researchers, representing East/South African region, Western Pacific region, West/Central African region, European region, Eastern Mediterranean region and Region of the Americas.
In addition to the previous list of partnered institutions – Institute of Tropical medicine Antwerp (ITM-A), University of Cape Town (UCT), Peking University, University of Western Cape (UWC), we welcome Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) this year as a new partner institution to the event.
We foresee a new and vibrant bunch of researchers, implementers and other health system actors to be selected in this edition to participate and constructively engage and challenge the global health discussions at the symposium.
Spread the word and share the call with researchers, institutions and other global and local platforms.
To download (pdf) the EV4GH 2016 call – click here
For more details visit: ev4gh.net
1) How can we achieve sustainable implementation of service delivery programmes?
We heard the voices of young health systems researchers and their mentors loud and clear the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) organized session on day one of the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The EV4GH, is a unique Thematic Working Group of the Health Systems Global.
