LSTM has hosted the 4th annual workshop for ReBUILD, a 6 year, £6 million research consortium funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID).
Hosting partners from Makerere Unversity, Uganda, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Sierra Leone,Cambodian Research Institute andBiomedical Research Institute in Zimbabwe, the consortium has brought partners together to discuss the emerging evidence base on the development of pro poor health systems in post conflict and fragile states.
During the week-long workshop, the 35 participants shared their fieldwork experiences, developed skills in qualitative and quantitative research methods, and began planning for publications and dissemination activities for the remainder of the project.
On Wednesday an external panel including: Dr Mukesh Kapila, CBE, Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs and Executive Director of the Office for Global Health at the University of Manchester; Dr Barry Munslow, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Liverpool and lecturer at LSTM; and Dr Alex Jones, ODI and Health Economist at the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone. The panel heard the emerging findings and considered the impact of health financing policy on the poorest in Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Uganda as they emerged from conflict and looked at evidence of the impact of heath policy on the motivation of health workers in these states and in Zimbabwe.
LSTM’s Senior Lecturer Tim Martineau, who is Co-Research Director for the consortium and leads the LSTM team, said: “It is always exciting for the team to get together face to face and look at the work that has been developing in the last few years. The annual workshop is vital for stimulating the real creativity that is further developing and pushing the project forward.”
The team now has a full programme (scroll to Dates for your Diary) at the upcoming Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town (30 September to 3 October) and will be co-hosting events of the Thematic Working Group for Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict Affected States.