Category: Refugees/humanitarian settings
Taking the long view: What can we learn about health system resilience in fragile contexts from Afghanistan (1989-2024)?- presentation
Presentation by Egbert Sondorp on health system resilience in Afghanistan and what can be learned from the case study
Liminal health systems: Mapping the health system for migrants and internally displaced people along the Thailand-Myanmar border
Poster on Liminal Health Systems – Mapping the Health System for Migrants and Internally Displaced People From
Myanmar Along the Thailand-Myanmar Border
Empowering Female Syrian Refugee Health Workers in Navigating Multiple Vulnerabilities – a poster
Poster on empowering female Syrian refugee health workers in navigating multiple vulnerabilities
Transforming Healthcare Governance in Lebanon: Advancing Justice, Inclusion, Belonging, and Resilience through a Municipal Health Committee in Majdal Anjar – a poster
Poster on transforming healthcare governance in Lebanon: advancing justice, inclusion, belonging, and resilience through a Municipal Health Committee in Majdal Anjar
Provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers and community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria: a mixed-methods study
Poster on the provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers and community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria
Linking local knowledge to global discourse: Work on migration and health
Case study looking at ReBUILD’s work on migration and health, linking local knowledge to global discourse in various fora
Empowering women in healthcare: A community-led initiative for resilience and integration
Case study looking at the impact of ReBUILD’s work to create a support group for informally-employed female refugee healthcare workers in Lebanon
Migration, displacement and health systems – podcast
A podcast from ReBUILD for resilience – ‘Migration, displacement and health systems’. Part of the ‘Stories of Resilience – Local Lives and Health Systems’ series.
Moving beyond capacity: A journey to evidence-based action
Case study looking at the impact of ReBUILD’s work exploring the structures underlying the absence of a culture of evidence-based action and decision-making within the Majdal Anjar Municipal Health Committee
Stories of Resilience – Local Lives and Health Systems podcasts
The ‘Stories of Resilience – Local Lives and Health Systems’ ReBUILD for Resilience podcast series. Explores a different resilience-related topic each episode.
Non-State and Informal Actors in Fragile Settings – podcast
A podcast from ReBUILD for resilience – ‘Non-State and Informal Actors in Fragile Settings’. Part of the ‘Stories of Resilience – Local Lives and Health Systems’ series.
The Tragedy of War: partnerships and strategies to deliver essential health care to vulnerable Yemeni children and babies
A video lecture by Professor Najla Al-Sonboli which explores the challenges of delivering health services in challenging environments and illustrates how solidarity and support can make a difference.
Claiming local decision space: the Municipal Health Committee in Majdal Anjar
In this AUB video, the ReBUILD for Resilience team in Lebanon present on the claiming local decision space: the Municipal Health Committee in Majdal Anjar
Refugee women in the informal health sector in Lebanon: gendered experiences of close-to-community healthcare providers during the COVID-19 response
This paper explores the lived experiences of men and women close-to-community healthcare providers in Beqaa, Lebanon, examining their gendered experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Workers – a film
‘Health Workers’ is a film that chronicles the journey of five female health workers who challenge ingrained social norms after relocating from Syria to Lebanon, where they unexpectedly become the sole breadwinners for their families.
The interplay of gender and other vulnerabilities: A participatory action research with informal Syrian close-to-community health care providers in Lebanon
In this AUB video, the ReBUILD for Resilience team in Lebanon present on the gendered experiences of close-to-community health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Forced migration and health systems: a proposal for a new approach
Fouad Fouad speaks on Forced migration and health systems: a proposal for a new approach
Health System Resilience in Northern Syria: Reflections from ReBUILD for Resilience Projects
In this video Ibrahim Bou-Orm presents a synthetic analysis of health system resilience in Northern Syria through reflections from many ReBUILD research studies conducted in this fragile setting
Dissemination event – Exploring approaches for complementary private sector engagement in the health sector in Northern Syria
Video of a stakeholder dissemination event held in Gaziantep for the study ‘Exploring approaches for complementary private sector engagement in the health sector in Northern Syria’
Evolution and lessons from an integrated service delivery network in North West Syria
Paper on an evaluation of an integrated service delivery network in North West Syria – conducted for the World Health Organization and supported by ReBUILD for Resilience
Social and cultural conditions affecting the mental health of Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian adolescents living in and around Bar Elias, Lebanon
Study explores adolescent mental health and the intersections between Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians in the town of Bar Elias, Lebanon
Sustaining health system resilience in extreme circumstances: insights from key informant interviews with UNRWA staff across Gaza and Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic
Video from Giulia Loffreda on what sustains health system resilience and how effective and equitable UNRWA service delivery was during COVID-19 in Gaza and Lebanon
Policies on return and reintegration of displaced healthcare workers towards rebuilding conflict-affected health systems: a review for The Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria
Paper looks at specific policies and information focused on the repatriation and reintegration of health care workers to their home country in the post-conflict period
Leave no one behind: ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugee and displaced populations
Paper looks at internally-displaced persons and refugees in LMICs with poor access to COVID-19 vaccines and considers the impact on and behaviours of those seeking immunisation
When Refugees Care for Refugees in Lebanon: Providing Contextually Appropriate Care from the Ground Up
Paper examines how Syrian refugees’ clinical encounters characterised by shared histories of displacement in Lebanon can inform humanitarian medicine
Twitter chat on displaced people, conflict & health systems
Read some of the tweeted highlights of this twitter chat on health systems, conflict & displaced people
Recommendations for supervisors of female health workers
Recommendations for supervisors of female health workers in Lebanon – how to improve employees’ experiences of work and boost their well-being, motivation & productivity (Arabic & English versions)
Resilience and inclusion in health (emergency and longer-term approaches with reference to COVID-19)
A UNHCR webinar on refugees’ inclusion in health systems and health system strengthening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Features Professor Sophie Witter.
The Impact of Leaving Camps on Well‐being of Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda
Paper that explores the estimated changes in internally displaced persons’ well‐being having left transit camps in 2006 following armed conflict in Northern Uganda.
Flexibility of deployment: challenges and policy options for retaining health workers during crisis in Zimbabwe
ReBUILD study looking at the implementation of health worker deployment policies in Zimbabwe before, during and after the 1997-2008 crisis
Les systèmes de santé pendant et après une crise : éléments probants en faveur de meilleures politiques et pratiques
Cette série de documents de synthèse, fruit des recherches menées par ReBUILD, aborde un nombre de questions clés concernant le renforcement des systèmes de santé dans les contextes affectés par un conflit ou une crise.
Responding to humanitarian crises in ways that strengthen longer-term health systems: What do we know?
ReBUILD briefing paper summarising knowledge on responding to humanitarian crises in ways that strengthen longer-term health systems
Webinar – Performance-based financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: from research to practice
Recording of a webinar on the impact of PBF research on practice in fragile and conflict-affected settings
Leaving no one behind; how can evidence-based approaches support progress towards UHC and global health goals during conflict and protracted crises?
This briefing paper has been produced ahead of an organised session at HSR2018, outlining the background context of health service delivery in conflict and protracted crises, current developments and initiatives to improve coordination and approaches to support both humanitarian and development objectives, and the challenges and issues for the use of evidence to support these efforts.
Aid effectiveness and health systems development in post-conflict northern Uganda
Freddie Ssengooba of ReBUILD talks about the consortium’s work on aid effectiveness and health systems development in post-conflict northern Uganda
UHC in Emergencies – ReBUILD presentation at the 2018 World Health Assembly
Video of Tim Martineau of the ReBUILD Consortium speaking at a session on UHC in emergencies at the 2018 World Health Assembly
Performance-based financing in three humanitarian settings: principles and pragmatism
A paper from ReBUILD’s study exploring how performance-based financing emerged and was adapted in three humanitarian settings.
Organizational Infrastructure for Service Delivery: A Case Study of Post-conflict Northern Uganda
ReBUILD poster presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town 2014: Study of the multitude of non-state agencies involvement in the health system, in post-conflict Northern Uganda
Joint submission to APPG-Africa Inquiry into Community-led health systems and the Ebola outbreak
ReBUILD, together with the REACHOUT and COUNTDOWN RPC, produced this joint submission of evidence in response to a call from the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Africa’s Inquiry on community-led health systems and the Ebola outbreak.