ReBUILD for Resilience at the HSR2022 Symposium
12 October 2022
ReBUILD for Resilience had strong representation at HSR2022 in Bogota, Colombia. Our consortium’s work and members were featured in organised panels, oral presentations and posters. Details are below. Our posters can be viewed here.
We also had a stall in the HSR2022 exhibition space. We were close to the refreshment area and it was great to meet and talk to you during breaks.
And thanks for following us during the conference on Twitter @ReBUILDRPC
Wednesday 2nd November
How to Integrate Political Economy into Technical Reform Processes Oriented towards UHC
Watch this session here.
Tools and methods can be used to unpack, assess, and identify the key political economy factors that impact health reform that seeks to make progress towards Universal Health Coverage. In this organised session concrete examples will be provided where political economy analysis is used to inform the technical design and sequencing of UHC reforms.
Speakers
- Aungsumalee Pholpark – Prince Mahidol University
- Ghada Alkayali – World Health Organization (WHO)
- Hala Abou-Taleb – WHO
- Kéfilath Bello – Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
- Sophie Witter – Queen Margaret University and ReBUILD for Resilience
- Susan Sparkes – WHO
- Sushil Baral – HERDi and ReBUILD for Resilience
- Valeria de Oliveira Cruz – WHO
Enhancing equity and access
Watch this presentation here.
This oral session – which falls under the ‘Changing dynamics of health provision models to promote equity’ strand – features Giulia Loffreda of ReBUILD for Resilience and Queen Margaret University. She will present Sustaining health system resilience in extreme circumstances: insights from key informant interviews with UNRWA staff across Gaza and Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The full line-up is:
- Global political economy of adolescent mental health and well-being: unpacking a wicked problem – Olivia Biermann, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Access and utilisation of healthcare services in three states in South Sudan: a mixed methods study – Harry Coleman, KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands
- Gender inequalities in access to domestic violence and abuse services in the United Kingdom: a scoping review – Natasha Howard, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore
- Medical end-of-life decision-making in a small resource-poor Caribbean country: a mortality follow-back study of home deaths – Nicholas Jennings, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Grenada, Belgium
- Sustaining health system resilience in extreme circumstances: insights from key informant interviews with UNRWA staff across Gaza and Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic – Giulia Loffreda, Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, UK
- Increasing Health Equity by developing and applying Social Determinants of Health Competencies and Interventions – Björg Pálsdóttir, Training for Health Equity Network, USA
- Why Systems Thinking is crucial for learning district health systems – Experience from Botswana, Pakistan, and Timor-Leste – Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Thursday 3rd November
Methods to address health systems’ response to shocks
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This oral session – which falls under the ‘Intersectoral and integrative governance’ strand – features Haja Wurie of ReBUILD for Resilience and College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone. Haja will be speaking on Community leaders engagement to prepare and respond to shocks, increase inclusivity, accountability and trust, and support health system resilience: lessons from Sierra Leone. More on this study here.
The full line-up is:
- Moderator: Dell Saulnier, Lund University, Karolinska Institutet
- Media content analysis on the extent and nature of coverage given to the Competition Commission Covid- 19 block exemption into healthcare – Amina Abdullah, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Assessing Multi-Sectoral Collaborations in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Selected Arab Countries – Racha Fadlallah, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- The predictors of COVID-19 mortality among health systems parameters: An ecological study across 203 countries – Sutapa Neogi, International Institute of Health Management Research, India
- What is intersectional system thinking? Learnings from an intersectoral project to strengthen the response to violence against women to leave no one behind in Albania – Rebeca Revenga Becedas, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
- Learning to listen: eliciting community voices in setting health policy and systems research priorities in China – Xiaohui Wang, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, China
- Community leaders engagement to prepare and respond to shocks, increase inclusivity, accountability and trust, and support health system resilience: lessons from Sierra Leone – Haja Wurie, University of Sierra Leone and Rebuild for Resilience
- “Covid-19 is just another way to die”: a qualitative longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 response governance across Syria – Natasha Howard, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Health workers and community participation
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This oral session – which falls under the ‘Changing dynamics of health provision models to promote equity’ strand – features Solomon Salve of ReBUILD for Resilience and Oxford Policy Management (OPM). Solomon will be speaking on Community health workers involvement in COVID-19 response: Understanding their roles, experiences, challenges and adaptive strategies across six countries. More on this study here.
The full line-up is:
- Moderator: Ariel Frisancho, CMMB PERU
- A decentralized multi-sector and multi-actor network as an alternative to the One Stop Center for the management of GBV: preliminary results of an action-research project – Yassinme Somasse, Belgian Development Agency (Enabel), Benin
- Adaptación del Programa “Patologías Crónicas Complejas” a la pandemia por COVID-19 en una institución de cuidado primario ambulatorio – Gina Castellanos Caro, Javesalud, Colombia
- mHero: Applying a novel health workforce communication platform in Kenya in the midst of a pandemic – Loise Kwirica, IntraHealth International, Kenya
- Stress and coping in the face of COVID-19: A qualitative inquiry into health workers’ experiences in Burkina Faso, Senegal, and The Gambia – Julia Lohmann, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
- Community health workers involvement in COVID-19 response: Understanding their roles, experiences, challenges and adaptive strategies across six countries – Solomon Salve, Oxford Policy Management, India
- Double Distress: women healthcare workers experiences of moral distress during COVID-19 – Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Community providers impact analysis
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This oral session – which falls under the ‘Changing dynamics of health provision models to promote equity’ strand – features Lansana Kallon of ReBUILD for Resilience and the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone. Lansana will be speaking on The gendered experience of close to community providers in fragile and shock-prone settings: Implications for policy and practice during and post COVID-19 in Sierra Leone. There’s more on this work and other strands of the same study here.
The full line-up is:
- Moderator: Solomon Salve, Oxford Policy Management, India
- The role of PHC teams’ inner context in the implementation of performance management interventions ‒ a case study of a realist evaluation in El Salvador – Ligia Aranda, The George Washington University, USA
- The gendered experience of close to community providers in fragile and shock-prone settings: Implications for policy and practice during and post COVID-19 in Sierra Leone – Lansana Kallon, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone
- Evidence-based communication campaign: co-designing of a culturally pertinent intervention during the Covid-19 pandemic; a case study from a Mayan Tz´utujil community in Guatemala – Daniela Ochaita, University of the Valley of Guatemala
- Relational practices for healthcare worker and community renewal: mixed-method findings and insights-in-progress from 5 years of RELATE Lab – Anaïs Tuepker, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
- What contribution do community-level factors make to successful community-led HIV self-testing programs? A mixed methods study in rural Zimbabwe – Mary Tumushime, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Research, Zimbabwe
Friday 4th November
Health financing and quantitative methods
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This oral session – which falls under the ‘Changing dynamics of health provision models to promote equity’ strand – features Ibrahim Bou-Orm of ReBUILD for Resilience and Queen Margaret University, UK. Ibrahim will be speaking on Exploring approaches for complementary private sector engagement in the health sector in Northern Syria. There’s more on this study here.
The full line-up is:
- Top-down bottom-up” estimation of per capita cost of new-born care interventions in four regions of Ghana: beyond implementation to scalability and sustainability – Robert Alhassan, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
- Beyond the first year of COVID-19: Estimating the effects on essential health services utilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Bangladesh – Gustavo Angeles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Exploring approaches for complementary private sector engagement in the health sector in Northern Syria – Ibrahim Bou-Orm, Queen Margaret University, UK
- Using agent-based modelling with data to better understand the impact mechanisms affecting health system performance through a financial incentives scheme for healthcare providers in Tanzania – Anna Foss, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
- Toward Universal Health Coverage: Regional inequalities and potential solutions of alleviating catastrophic health expenditure in the post-poverty elimination era of China – Yanan Luo, China
- Cost-effectiveness of targeted vs. universal birth dose vaccination strategies to prevent mother to child transmission of Hepatitis B in Myanmar: Modelling Study – Myat Sandimin, Community Partners International, Myanmar
Sharing experiential learning from health policy and system research learning sites in diverse settings – how to manage the challenges and maximise the benefits
Watch this panel discussion here.
This organised session will reflect on the meaning and practice of ‘learning sites’ to advance HPSR and its application for system strengthening. The interactive panel will highlight different experiences of learning sites on three continents, common challenges they faced (including differential power of the actors) and how these can be managed. There’s more here on ReBUILD’s two learning site – Kapilvastu District in Nepal and Majdal Anjar, Lebanon.
Speakers
- Shophika Regmi – HERD International, Nepal and ReBUILD for Resilience
- Fernando Jerez – CEGSS (Centro de Estudias para la Equidad y Gobernanza en los Sistemas di Salude)
- Jacinta Nzinga – KEMRI (Kenya Medical Research Institute)
- Joanna Raven – Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and ReBUILD for Resilience
- Maria van der Merwe – VAPAR (Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research)
- Sophie Witter – Queen Margaret University and ReBUILD for Resilience
ReBUILD for Resilience posters
- New priorities to support community health workers in fragile settings: addressing gender, security, innovation and dialogue – No. 978
- How can we strengthen stakeholder partnership and coordination for health system resilience? Findings from a multi-country synthesis – No, 425
- Health systems resilience in fragile and shock prone settings through the prism of gender equity and justice – No. 494
- Role of non-state actors in Myanmar 2015-22 and their impact on health service delivery and health system resilience (v)
- Health sector policy responses and health workforce management during COVID-19 in Nepal: lessons for building resilient health system – No. 1206
- Implementation of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health policy in Sierra Leone (v)
- Health system resilience during COVID-19; understanding SRH adaptations in North Kivu (v)
Other related sessions
Monday 31st October
Who, what, why and how: A behavioural approach to governing the private sector in health
8.30am-12 noon – Level 2 – Room G
Professor Sophie Witter of ReBUILD for Resilience features in this satellite session which is coordinated by WHO. It considers practice-based approaches to govern the private health sector as part of resilient, people-centred health systems. Sophie will be specifically addressing fragile and conflict-affected settings. The session introduces governance behaviours as an analytical approach to guide countries with their work on governing the private health sector and promoting collaboration and joint problem solving through the Country Connector on Private Sector in Health. It aims to contribute to efforts to decolonise global health by encouraging country led research, evidence generation and practice.
Development and evaluation of integrated Tuberculosis care with Pay for Performance in Georgia – what are lessons for the region and beyond?
10.30am-12.30pm – Level 3 – Room K
Professor Sophie Witter will be speaking in this satellite session hosted by Curatio International Foundation. It is increasingly recognized that providers pay for performance needs to be embedded in a wider reforms package to impact performance. This session shares Georgia’s experience of introducing tuberculosis integrated care with P4P approach. The session draws on policymakers and researcher perspectives, reflecting on policy co-design experiences, trial, cost-effectiveness and realist methods.
Thursday 3rd November
Reducing conflict, confronting pressure: Health system and policy response to the humanitarian and health crises as a result of international migration in Latin America – Thematic Working Group on Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
2-3:30pm – Level 2 – Room EF – Thematic working group meeting
Large population displacements have marked the past five years in Latin America, with migrants generally integrating with host populations and needing access to healthcare services. This session focuses on health system contributions towards social stability/reduction of conflict and how related pressure may lead to fragility, thus requiring adapted policies.
Speakers
- Andrés Cubillos – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
- Daniel López-Cevallos – University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Goran Zangana – Middle East Research Institute
- Ietza Bojórquez – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
- Irene Torres – Fundacion Octaedro