| | Session ProgrammeClick here for a PDF of all plenary sessions details. Social event on Tuesday, 20 April: an evening at the ICRC Museum, click here to know more! 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 | Background docs Session reports |  News by Session Session Reports by Themes | Quotes For Health |  It is my aspiration that health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.  - Kofi Annan | | | |