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Meaningful Youth Participation in Adolescent and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health Programming
When youth are meaningfully involved, programs become more effective, sustainable, and responsive to their needs, while empowering youth and enhancing their skills. True engagement aligns strategies with real needs, leverages innovative approaches, and strengthens partnerships, ultimately improving health and development outcomes. – Bisrat Dessalegn, IWG African Regional Hub Leader Are young people not only benefiting…
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One Health: A Veterinarian’s Perspective
“Recognizing the importance of the One Health approach is just the beginning; it is essential to actively incorporate veterinarians’ perspectives into broader discussions and strategic initiatives aimed at fortifying health systems globally. Veterinarians bring a wealth of knowledge in managing not only the health of animals but also in understanding the intricate ways in which…
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Embarking on Your Health Care Transformation Journey? Health System Transformation Playbook is here to help!
Health system stewards must ultimately attain competence in understanding their own systems, understanding the positive and negative effects of change ideas on systems, grappling with their own local realities, and charting their own paths forward. Dr Ng Yeuk Fan and Dr Teo Ken Wah, IWG Guest Contributors Hey there, fellow health systems enthusiasts! Today, let’s…
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Youth Mental Health in the context of COVID-19 in East and Southern Africa: A Desk Review
In 2020-21, the IWG started a Memorandum of Understanding with EQUINET, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa, which is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region who have come together as an equity catalyst, to promote and realize shared values…
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Towards Health for All: Community Health Workers as stewards of Health
Organization and management of Service Delivery in Urban Primary Health Care Settings are a critical component of improving health coverage and outcome. Thailand, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia have made significant strides in enhancing primary health care by improving the urban health system. Dr Ambulai Johnson and Dr Sudipta Ghoshal, IWG Blog 2022 In 2018, the Astana…
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Shadow Pandemic: Women’s Health in the Time of COVID-19
Our countries could not be more different across cultures, income-levels, geopolitical situations, as well as health system capacities, yet we find similarities in issues close to our heart, around women and children’s health within our countries.” Dr Sevil Hakimi and Dr Laura Neenan, IWG Blog 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to overwhelm health systems both…
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The Climate Catastrophe is not Looming, It’s Already Here: The 2022 Floods in Pakistan
This flood exposed the weaknesses of past infrastructure, leadership, and governance structures and approaches, as well as of resource planning, allocation, and implementation. It has opened up a window of opportunity for incorporating transparent systems and policy processes for disaster management, and to proactively plan for the climate crisis to ensure that climate action and…
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Beyond Silos: Making Mental Health and Well-being For All a Global Priority
This WMHD, we call for five actions we believe will make a difference. These five actions, however, need to be situated in a common understanding. Our mental health is shaped by things that happen within us and outside us. Our mental health and the mental health system that surrounds us is an interconnected part of…
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HSR2020: Global Symposia on Health Systems Research
COVID-19 highlighted a need to rekindle the spirit of international collaboration and leadership for marshaling actions across multiple levels. An organized session was developed by the International Working Group for Health Systems Strengthening (IWG) for the HSR2020 Global Symposia to convene public health professionals to re-imagine and co-create a new vision for global health leadership,…
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World Aids Day
To commemorate World Aids Day 2021, Siddharth Srivastava, an IWG member from the South East Asia Region, penned down a thoughtful blog post, drawing together 11 ‘lessons’ for Human Resource Management practices in Public Health that he derived from Avahan program director Ashok Alexander’s book entitled ‘A Stranger Truth.’ The book outlines the pivotal role…
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