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PS24

Parallel session

Monday, 19 April 2010

Session PS24/room 4

 

11:00
12:30

Health Systems Strengthening: What Are We Talking About?

Chair: Abdul Ghaffar, Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (HSR/HSS), WHO, Switzerland
Don de Savigny, Professor and Head, Health Systems Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland

 

Applying a Systems Perspective to Health Systems Strengthening

Adam Taghreed, Scientist, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (HSR/HSS), World Health Organization, Switzerland

Health Systems Strengthening Consensus Statement

Robert Swanson, Physician, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

A New Approach for Assessing Health System Governance

Claudia Baez-Camargo, Lead Researcher and Coordinator, 'Governance of Health Systems' Project, Basel Institute on Governance, Switzerland

 

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