The Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Delivery (CAHRD), hosted by LSTM, is holding its inaugural consultation event in Liverpool in June.
The consultation, which takes place on 12thand 13th of June at Liverpool Town Hall and the Raddison Blu Hotel, will see in the region of 200 delegates from around the world coming together to shape a strategic direction to deliver transformed health systems to improve health in low and middle income countries, with a focus on the challenges that will be faced 10-20 years from now.
The consultation will focus on four themes, using examples of LSTM applied health research and delivery experience within those themes. The themes are: Lung Health (LH) looking at indoor air pollution, access to care for people with chronic ling health and how to lower the costs to care-seekers; Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) thinking beyond the 2015 Millennium Development Goals; Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) seeking to accelerate progress towards the elimination of a range of diseases, scoping tools, delivery mechanisms and support mechanisms for policy and practice decision making; Health Systems (HS) looking at a number of issues such as close to community providers and the challenges of building health systems in fragile and conflict affected countries.
Over the two days discussion papers will be presented and debated by members of the CAHRD network and an external panel including Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Adviser, DFID, Andy Wright, Director of NTD Programmes,GSK, Morven Roberts, Programme Manager for Global Infections and Global Health Trials, MRC, Hassan Mshinda Director General of Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania, Matthews Mathai, coordinator of the Epidemiology, Monitoring and Evaluation Team, WHO and Sadia Chowdhury, Executive Director BRAC Institute of Global Health, Bangladesh. Dr Tim Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank will deliver LSTM’s Leverhulme Lecture as part of the event on the first evening and on the second morning there will be a “Question Time” style debate with members of the external panel and moderated by Peter Sissons.
Professor Bertie Squire, Director of CAHRD said: “This is the first of our biennial consultation events and we are all looking forward to working together and looking at some of the potential challenges and opportunities that the next 10-20 years may offer. I am delighted that so many of our partners are able to attend the consultation, particularly those who are travelling such long distances to get here.”
To find out more about the consultation and to register for the open sessions, please see the CAHRD website.