This short course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of the unique challenges faced by health systems (HS) in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings (FCAS). It explores the dynamics of health system response during emergencies, the complexities of navigating conflict-affected settings, and the pathways to recovery and resilience.

Through interactive case studies, real-world examples, and expert-led discussions, participants will develop practical skills and strategic insights to strengthen health systems in some of the world’s most challenging contexts.

• Teaching approaches: e.g. 

  • Presentations/lectures introducing the concepts and principles 
  • Interactive hands-on sessions, experiential learning 
  • Post session self-study and practice 

   

  Course content

  1. Understanding Health Systems in CAS 
  2. Governance, Financing, Resource Mobilisation, and Equity in CAS  
  3. Strengthening Health Systems Amid Crises 
  4.  Building Strong and Resilient Health Systems in CAS

   

  Timetable 

  Day 1  

  • Conceptualisation of health systems (HS) and other terms: HS Strengthening, HS Resilience, and HS Recovery.
  • Unique characteristics of health systems in CAS

  Day 2  

  • Governance and financing of health systems in CAS
  • Resource mobilisation, and equitable delivery of services in CAS 

  Day 3  

  • Challenges and Opportunities for post-conflict recovery
  • Achieving long-term sustainability: a political economy lens

  Course tutors

  Dr Ibrahim R. Bou-Orm

  Ibrahim joined Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) as a Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social Sciences in 2024. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing complex health systems and policy studies in fragile and conflict-affected settings. His work includes the use of tools like applied political economy analysis, systems dynamics methods, surveys, and mixed methods to analyse health systems delivering care for vulnerable and displaced populations in crises and emergencies. Ibrahim has actively contributed to international conferences and participated in key expert consultation meetings, such the WHO EMRO consultation meeting on health systems recovery from emergencies (2023). He also supported EMRO in developing the principles and priorities for health system recovery in the occupied Palestinian territory (2024).

  Professor Fouad Fouad

  Fouad is a Social Sciences and Global Health Professor at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, who joined the school in 2024. He has extensive research on migration and health, focusing on multidisciplinary approaches to forced displacement, health systems in humanitarian settings, and the political economy of health in protracted crises.

  Fouad served as the Chair of the IDRC- Forced Displacement Program in the Middle East, and the Co-Director of the Refugee Health Program at the Global Health Institute. In addition, he was a Research Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, where he also held a position as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences.

  He was a commissioner in the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health (2018) and is currently a commissioner in the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Migration.