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UCL GBSH at HSR2024
6 November 2024
Between 18 - 22 November 2024, Health Systems Global (HSG) will welcome researchers, decision-makers, and implementers in the health systems space to Nagasaki, Japan for their 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR).
The theme of the five-day event is Building Just & Sustainable Health Systems: Centering People and Protecting the Planet, and attendees will address sub-themes such as planetary health, justice and inclusion, health governance, and knowledge for just health systems.
We are pleased to have several of our academic staff representing the UCL Global Business School for Health in attendance at the symposium to speak on and chair various panels and host satellite sessions. More information about where our staff will be is listed below.
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UCL GBSH presence at HSR2024
Just and sustainable Urban Primary Healthcare Systems in a changing world
19 November 2024 | 10:15-12:50 JST | Room 101 (C) | Satellite Session
Organised by UCL Global Business School for Health and featuring Prof. Kabir Sheikh (Moderator), Prof. Nora Colton (Keynote speaker) and Dr. Meike Schleiff (Panellist)
Join us for rich deliberations around the learning needs for strengthening an urban primary health care (PHC) approach in LMICs. Reiterations of support for PHC reflect its enduring importance. Now, we must rethink and reframe relevance in LMICs, whose PHC approaches were largely developed and organized as rural health systems. Asia and Africa are projected to account for 90% of the increase in urban populations over the next 20 years. This session will understand the unique urban health requirements in varied country contexts and discuss the agenda for research and learning relevant to just, inclusive, and sustainable UPHC systems.
This session will also launch the new multi-year collaboration between UCL GBSH and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Learning Sites for Urban PHC Systems.
Other events include:
- Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Universal Health Coverage
18 November 2024 | 09:00-11:20 JST | Room 105 | Satellite Session
Hosted by the Sing Health Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI) and featuring Shehla Zaidi (Plenary Talk on ‘Stewarding PPPs in the EMR and South Asia’)
Session 1 9am: Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Equity in Healthcare Delivery - From Primary to Hospital Care
Session 2 11.35am: Equitable Access to Specialist Services: Surgery
Session 3 2pm: Governance, Financing and Partnerships for Immunisation Services in the Public vs Private Sectors
Session 4 3pm: Equitable Access to Specialist Services - Mental Health, Child Health and Tuberculosis Care in the Public vs Private Sectors
- Expert consultation on the political economy of PHC-oriented health systems reforms
19 November 2024 | 13:00-14:00 JST | Hilton Nagasaki | Side Event
Organised by the World Health Organisation and featuring Prof. Kabir Sheikh (Panellist)
- History-sensitive strategies for research, policy change and systems strengthening
20 November 2024 | 16:10-17:40 JST | Room 101 (A) | SHAPES TWG Session
The Social Science Approaches for Research and Engagement in Health Policy and Systems (SHAPES) Thematic Working Group (TWG) session featuring Dr. Meike Schleiff (Panellist)
Inequities in health and access, as well as structural injustices are rooted in historic policy decisions and contexts. Staff turnover and institutional memory-loss, overly-technical approaches, and deprioritisation of longitudinal analyses, limit our capacity to mitigate these forces. This participatory session hosted by the SHAPES TWG will enhance the capacity of researchers and practitioners to 1) understand how historical forces shape health systems and constrain change, 2) apply historical methodologies and analytic approaches to locate contemporary processes within trajectories and identify the causes of current challenges, and 3) use this knowledge to develop history-sensitive strategies for change towards learning systems.
- From Policy to Practice: Governing for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation in 21st Century health systems
20 November 2024 | 16:10-17:0 JST | Room 107 | Oral Session
Featuring Prof. Kabir Sheikh (Chair)
- Governance Frameworks for Non-State Entities: Improving Innovation and Access to Medical Products
21 November 2024 | 11:40-13:10 JST | Room 109 | Oral Session
Featuring Prof. Kabir Sheikh (Chair)
- Realist Research in Health Systems: Advancing Theory, Practice, and Justice
21 November 2024 | 14:10-15:40 JST | Room 101(B) | Organised Session
Featuring Sara Dada (Panellist/ Session Coordinator)
This session explores the application of realist methodologies in health policy and systems research, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and their contribution to epistemic justice. It highlights how realist research bridges research and practice, focusing on principles, contextual adaptations and practical applications in LMICs. The session will include interactive activities, a moderated panel and learning from reflections and experiences of conducting realist research in India, Nigeria, and Zambia. It will explore challenges, innovative approaches and the implications of realist research for health systems, with input from policymakers on its relevance in decision-making.
- Toward just and inclusive learning health systems: co-developing participatory economic evaluation methods
21 November 2024 | 14:10-17:40 JST | Conf 1 | Capacity Building Session
Featuring Pratap Kumar (Facilitator/Co Lead)
- Constructing a discrete event simulation model of the blood transfusion system in Kenya: an innovative tool to understand complex systems, reveal bottlenecks and test interventions
21 November 2024 | Poster Session
Featuring Pratap Kumar (Poster Presenter)
- Flipping the script on learning health systems: Health workers and managers discuss what is needed for equitable and localized learning approaches for health systems change
22 November 2024 | 14:10-15:40 JST | Room 101 (C) | Organised Session
Featuring Dr Meike Schleiff (Session Planner and Contributor)
This session reframes the topic of learning health systems towards local voices who are both the information producers and users. A moderator will facilitate a fishbowl discussion with health workers and managers sharing expertise in what is working to build capacity and culture in learning health systems with global actors.
- Sustainable Health Systems through Contextualizing Health Taxes in Equitable Ways: Political Economy of Health Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Featuring Dr Rakesh Parashar (Panellist – joining remotely)
- Enhancing maternal and newborn health through community engagement with the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Zambia: A realist evaluation
20 November 2024 | 8.00-9.30 JST | Oral Presentation
Featuring Sara Dada (Presenter)
UCL GBSH representatives at HSR2024
Our academic staff representing us at HSR2024 are world leading industry experts and welcome the opportunity to connect. Learn more about our staff below:
 | Dr. Meike Schleiff, Associate Professor in Health Systems & Policy Email: m.schleiff@ucl.ac.uk Each Symposium that I have attended, starting when I was a doctoral student, has provided multiple opportunities to reflect and catch up with colleagues I have worked with before, to share current initiatives and meet others with similar interests, and to find out about new work and identify synergies for future initiatives. |
 | Prof. Kabir Sheikh, Professor of Global Health Systems and Policy Email: kabir.sheikh@ucl.ac.uk The Symposium is a "home" for all those interested in health systems and policy, but it’s so much more than that:
I have attended each Symposium since inception in 2010, had the privilege of organizing the Vancouver 2016 and Liverpool 2018 editions while I was Vice Chair/Chair of Health Systems Global, and I'm delighted that it has gone from strength to strength. |
 | Dr. Yuxi Zhang, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Policy and Systems Email: yuxi.zhang@ucl.ac.uk Joining GBSH from a social science background, this is my first opportunity to participate in the HSG symposium, and I'm delighted to find that many long-term collaborators from around the world will also be attending. I feel as though I'm finally coming home to the community for health systems and policy research. I am excited about this fantastic opportunity to network, discuss, and learn. I look forward to reuniting with old friends and connecting with new ones in Nagasaki. |
 | Shehla Zaidi, Associate Professor and Programme Lead for Global Healthcare Management Email: shehla.zaidi@ucl.ac.uk |
 | Dr. Rakesh Parashar, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health Systems and Policy Email: r.parashar@ucl.ac.uk I love the fact that HSR symposium is a place to discuss the issues and opportunities which are rarely discussed on other forums. In earlier symposiums, meeting with HPSR scholars from several countries who work on really fundamental and critical health policy and systems issues, has hugely impacted my research and practice. And of course, It's the best place to expand ones professional and personal networks in the field. |
 | Dr. Pratap Kumar, Associate Professor in Digital Health Policy Email: pratap.kumar@ucl.ac.uk I will be facilitating a capacity strengthening session titled "Toward just and inclusive learning health systems: co-developing participatory economic evaluation methods.” I will also be presenting a poster titled "Constructing a discrete event simulation model of the blood transfusion system in Kenya: an innovative tool to understand complex systems, reveal bottlenecks and test interventions” which will present recent results (manuscript submitted) on potential interventions to improve blood availability at the point of care. Both are on Thursday. |
 | Sara Dada, Postdoctorate Fellow Email: sara.dada@ucdconnect.ie I am enthusiastic to be attending and participating in my second HSR symposium! The symposium is a great opportunity to connect with colleagues from around the world and engage in critical discussions about the current state and future of health systems. I look forward to sharing my own research and learning from so many others in Nagasaki.
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