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Translating health policies into plans for action: the role of district health managers
Blog
August 19, 2021

This piece was written by Kate Gooding, Gabrielle Appleford, Nicola Wiafe from Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and originally appeared on the OPM website.  The success of national policies and plans for universal health coverage depends on implementation. Much of this implementation takes place at the local level, where health services are managed and delivered. This… Read more

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Increasing the provision of essential health care services through support of health workers in Sierra Leone
Assignment
July 23, 2015

DFID committed 12 million GBP to uplift frontline health workers’ salaries in Sierra Leone from 2010 to 2015 to support the implementation of the Free Healthcare Initiative (FHCI), launched in April 2010, which made health services free for pregnant women, children under five years of age and nursing mothers. Increasing the availability of frontline health… Read more

health financing, Health Service Delivery, Health Workers, Sierra Leone
Health
Gender Equity Analysis: A necessary prerequisite for addressing gender-related outcomes
Blog
July 23, 2015

In this blog post Ireen Namakhoma discusses the importance of gender equity analysis within health research. In March 2015, the Global Health Action produced a special issue on Gender and Health. One of the articles which I co-authored together with colleagues from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Eleanor MacPherson, Sally Theobald and Esther Richards, highlights… Read more

gender and health, Gender Equality
Health
Online ethics training: experiences of a health systems researcher
Blog
July 23, 2015

In this blog post Maureen Njue discusses the purpose, use, and range of different online research ethics training courses. “For protocols to be reviewed, all the listed Principal Investigators (PIs) and co-PIs need a certificate as proof of having done an online ethics course.” “All applications must be accompanied by a certificate of completion from… Read more

ethics, health systems
Health
Improving the performance of community health workers: What can be learned from the literature?
Blog
July 23, 2015

Many countries are now attempting to roll out and scale up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes. CHWs provide a wide range of health services. They are community-based workers who are trained, but have no formal professional or paraprofessional certificate. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to find out how intervention design can influence… Read more

community health workers
Health
Tim Martineau on the Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Working Group
HEART talks
July 22, 2015

Tim Martineau is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and leads a growing team working on health workforce issues. In this video, he talks about the Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Working Group, a subgroup of Health Systems Global which is a society for… Read more

Conflict, fragile states, Health, Health Research, Health Service Delivery
Health
Successful Capacity Strengthening: Three Case Studies by the Capacity Resource Unit (CRU)
HEART talks
July 22, 2015

In this video, members of the Capacity Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, talk about improving the effectiveness of capacity strengthening programmes and present three case studies of such programmes. Speakers include: Imelda Bates (Head of Capacity Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine), Stefanie Gregorius, (Research Assistant, Capacity Research Unit, Liverpool School of… Read more

Africa, Capacity, capacity building, Capacity Strengthening, Health, Health Research, health systems
Health
Introducing the Capacity Research Unit (CRU): Strengthening Health Research Capacity around the World
HEART talks
July 22, 2015

Professor Imelda Bates is the Head of the Capacity Research Unit (CRU), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the focus for an emerging international network with expertise in the evaluation of research capacity development. In this video, Professor Bates talks about the CRU’s work in health research capacity development in low and middle income countries (LMICs),… Read more

Capacity, capacity building, Health, Health Research, health systems
Education
Health
Celebrating World Sight Day in Mozambique – Thoughts on the value of international days and why they are still relevant
Blog
November 8, 2013

Despite the WHO only having eight official health days mandated by the World Health Assembly, many others exist to promote important public health issues. A quick internet search indicates that there are more international health days than days in the year. Every day seems to have been claimed by either a disease, a sector or… Read more

Africa, eye health, Health, Human Resources, International days, Mozambique

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