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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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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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Period Poverty in Lebanon: Breaking the Cycle
Period poverty in Lebanon has been skyrocketing ever since the economic turmoil and subsequent healthcare system weakening, where the price of sanitary products has been subjected to a 500% increase, thus almost preventing 66% of adolescent girls from being able to purchase the products to manage their cycles with dignity and wellness. Ghiwa Nasser Eddine, IWG…
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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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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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A Youth-Led Demand for Global Vaccine Equity
As a network of emerging global public health leaders and professionals, we believe that we are uniquely positioned to demand accountability from leadership and to reinforce the need for equity across global COVID-19 vaccine access and distribution efforts. On October 30, 2021, aligning with the G20 Summit, we published the position paper attached below that uniquely emphasizes…
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Cape Town Together
“Organising to create a community which must have the goal of creating belonging. Belonging creates the conditions for collective thinking, action, and change.” Screened 22nd April 2021 The Cape Town Together documentary was a collaborative filmmaking process with four different Community Action Networks and filmmakers who were also on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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