Community Health Systems Group
The Community Health Systems Group specialises in the scale-up and evaluation of community health interventions. Our research has demonstrated strategies for quality integrated community health programs that are sustainable. The group is lead by Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer and consists of twenty staff and doctoral students with a research portfolio of over £8 million (2018), spanning 15 countries across Africa and Asia.
Our vision is to create a world where your health is not dictated by who you are, where you are born or where you live
Our mission
We conduct robust and innovative global health implementation research on community health systems. We engage and partner with communities, practitioners and policy makers. Our research is used to strengthen and sustain high quality community health systems for underserved communities.
Our Approach
We are our partnerships and it is only through collaborations with other researchers, practitioners, policy makers and communities that change can occur. Capacity development is core to our way of working and we share learning across our partnerships and research portfolio to strengthen the capacity of our research stakeholders. We apply systems thinking in our research to ensure that it is focused on strengthening community health systems and integrating community health into the formal health system. We are rigorous in the use of mixed methods implementation research to better understand how to scale-up high-quality care whilst tackling equity challenges in complex health systems. We embrace new technologies and innovation where this can lead to cost effective, evidence-based solutions. We are passionate about real world research that produces useful research that is used to influence local and national policies and bring about change.
Where we work
The Community Health Systems Group’s operational research is frequently integrated with large scale disease prevention and elimination programs in lower- and middle-income countries. The group provides technical assistance to consortia, international institutes and governments in the design, implementation and evaluation of community-based health interventions. Capacity development is core to our way of working and we share learning across our partnerships and research portfolio to strengthen the capacity of our research stakeholders. We apply systems thinking in our research to ensure that it is focused on strengthening community health systems and integrating community health into the formal health system.
Bangladesh • Malawi • Swaziland • Ethiopia • Mozambique • Tanzania • Indonesia • Philippines • Uganda • Kenya • South • Africa • Zimbabwe • Lesotho • Sudan • Zambia
PhD Students
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Nicole Yan |
Integrated approaches to point of care testing in antenatal care in Kenya |
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Rosie Steege |
Exploring gender dynamics at the interface of community and health systems in Ethiopia and Mozambique. LSTM scholarship awarded Sept 2015. |
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Lynne Elliot |
Functionality and sustainability of quality improvement teams for community health systems in Kenya |
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Meghan Bruce |
Costs, finances and decision-making for community health programmes |
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Digital gaming and HIV knowledge, testing and linkage among adolescent MSM in the Philippines |
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Decision-making and priority setting for lung health in a devolved Kenyan community health system |
News from the Community Health Systems Group
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From: LSTMLiverpool vaccine equity programme launches new phaseBlog19 Jan 2023 -
From: LSTMHIV game developed by LSTM shown at International AIDS conferenceNews article20 Jul 2018 -
From: LSTMCommunity Health Systems for achieving universal health coverage: panacea or poison?Seminars & lectures8 Mar 2018 -
From: LSTMFinal REACHOUT consortium meeting in Salima, MalawiNews article3 Oct 2017 -
From: LSTMSTAR host two day HIV Self-Testing Workshop, NairobiNews article27 Mar 2017 -
From: LSTMSecond HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) Project meetingNews article12 Apr 2016
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From: LSTMLiverpool vaccine equity programme launches new phaseBlog19 Jan 2023
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From: LSTMHIV game developed by LSTM shown at International AIDS conferenceNews article20 Jul 2018
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From: LSTMFinal REACHOUT consortium meeting in Salima, MalawiNews article3 Oct 2017
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From: LSTMSTAR host two day HIV Self-Testing Workshop, NairobiNews article27 Mar 2017
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From: LSTMSecond HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) Project meetingNews article12 Apr 2016
