The Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS) TWG is an active group of researchers, policy-makers, funders and implementers working on health policy and systems research in fragile and conflict affected settings, developing research priorities and methods, advocacy for funding, capacity building, and better use of research in policy.
If you would like to find out more about the FCAS TWG, the activities we will be involved in at the Symposium, or engage in this important area of research, why not
- Visit us at the HSG stall in the Exhibition area
- Follow #HSRFCAS on Twitter
- Follow TWG-FCAS activities and issues shared via the ReBUILD Research Consortium social media platforms: @REBUILDRPC and facebook.com/ReBUILD-Consortium.
- Join us at one of the exciting sessions listed below and in this list of sessions relevant to the FCAS TWG (pdf).
Official TWG sessions
Session Type | Title | Short description | Date & time | Location |
Business meeting | TWG business meeting: Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS) | Open both to existing and prospective members of the TWG-FCAS, the meeting will (i) update and inform members on the work of the group from 2016 – 2018, and (ii) engage group members in the process of implementing the strategic plan for the TWG’s ongoing and future work. | Monday October 8, 11.45 – 13.00 | ACC room 3A |
Organized Session | Context, gender and sustainability in introducing and scaling up essential healthcare packages in fragile and conflict affected settings | The essential package of health services is a mechanism for expanding equitable coverage of primary health care and essential hospital services in countries recovering from conflict. This session explores the evidence base on such healthcare packages in different countries, and prioritizes areas for strengthening research. | Wednesday October 10, 16.00 – 17.30 | ACC Hall 2E |
Supporting documents for TWG sessions
TWG member sessions
Session Type | Title of presentation | Short description of session/presentation | Date & time | Location |
Satellite | Health financing in fragile and conflict affected settings: controversies and innovations | The number of people estimated to live in fragile contexts is projected to grow to 1.9 billion by 2030. This session will discuss challenges and opportunities to ensure access to prioritised health services with protection for the most vulnerable, in contexts where typical health systems strengthening approaches have failed. | Monday, October 8, 13:30 – 17:00 | ACC Room 12 |
Skills building session | How to work with researchers and policy makers to adapt global evidence to define national packages of health services in low-income and crisis-affected settings. | Designing, updating and implementing a national essential health benefits package is a critical component of health systems development. We illustrate how to do this with the case of Afghanistan and Ethiopia, where policy makers and researchers worked together for this objective, and highlight challenges and lessons learned for other settings. | Monday, October 8, 15:30 – 17:30 | Exhibition Centre Room 17 |
Skills building session | Using participatory visual methods to understand and support health systems with a focus on marginalized populations | Visual methods are an effective way to elicit and organize local knowledge, identify priorities for action and evaluate performance of health systems, adding valuable insights, especially for marginalized populations, into health systems functioning. This session aims to build skills and stimulate discussion on using photo elicitation and photovoice. | Tuesday, October 9, 08:00 – 12:00 | Exhibition Centre Room 19 |
Sub-section of Satellite meeting. | Contribution of community health to the sustainability & resilience of health systems in fragile settings | Sub-session of Satellite meeting on “No longer invisible – finally bridging healthcare social and societal engagement to build systems for health”. (Save the Children and CORE Group) Includes presentation from ReBUILD research on the changing health care needs of communities and health systems responses in fragile settings (human resource component of the health system; interactions with the community; effects of short-term external interventions on communities and subnational and national levels to develop resilient health systems for the longer term.) | Tuesday, October 9, 11:30 – 12:30 (Sub-session of all-day Satellite 08:00 – 17:00) | ACC Room 4A |
Presentation during Satellite session | Investigating results-based financing as a tool for strategic purchasing; comparing the cases of Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zimbabwe | Presentation during Satellite session on “Pay for Performance (P4P), how, why, where and what?” Maria Bertone (Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, UK and the ReBUILD Consortium) | Tuesday, October 9, 11:45 – 12:50 (sub-session of all-day satellite) | Mersey Suite, Pullman Hotel (Kings Dock, Monarchs Quay) |
Skills building session | Innovative research approaches: social network analysis (SNA) for systems development – application to aid effectiveness in Uganda | Unlike the dominant health systems analytical methods that collect information about the agent or actor characteristics and behaviour, applied SNA is a useful tool to explore the interactions and links between agents. This session will introduce and create confidence in the applications of applied techniques of SNA in health systems research. | Tuesday, October 9, 13:00 – 17:00 | Exhibition Centre Room 21 |
Panel session | Health system resilience in the Middle East: the experience of UNRWA and regional stakeholders | This panel profiles evidence on what constitutes ‘health systems resilience’ in practice, using examples of health systems in the Middle East, including UNRWA systems in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and country level systems in (Lebanon Ministry of Health) challenged by continual reform and regional crisis. | Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12.30 | ACC Hall 2E |
Participatory session | Revisiting health systems to ensure Universal Health Coverage during humanitarian crises | Conflict and forced displacement are complex and have complex consequences on health systems. Deliberate attacks on health infrastructure and personnel are increasing. There is need for newer concepts and mechanisms (e.g. systems thinking, culturally appropriate care, innovative financing mechanisms) to strengthen health systems to ensure Universal Health Coverage for nationals and displaced persons. | Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC Room 1B |
Participatory session | Leaving no one behind; how can evidence-based approaches support progress towards UHC and global health goals during conflict and protracted crises? | How do we ensure evidence-based approaches in protracted crises, incorporating a long-term view towards UHC, while providing immediate health needs? Aimed at those working in both humanitarian and development roles, this participatory session will collate experiences and insights, and develop recommendations for better evidence use for long-term, equitable health outcomes. | Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC Room 2L |
Individual Oral presentations: |
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Lightning oral session | Health service delivery in fragile and conflict-affected settings: challenges and lessons | Fragile and conflict-affected settings lag behind more stable contexts in progress towards international health goals. Delivery of services proves even more difficult in fragile and conflict-affected settings than in other equally poor but more stable countries. Lessons learned from delivering services in these contexts are explored, including in areas of performance-based financing, disability, rehabilitation care, malnutrition treatment, mobile clinics and district-wide approaches to maternal and newborn health care.
| Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC Room 11C |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Partnerships for research, capacity development and policy: challenges and opportunities | Building capacity in health systems research in post-Ebola Sierra Leone (Haja Wurie, ReBUILD Research Consortium, COMAHS, Sierra Leone) | Wednesday, October 10, 14:00-15:30 | ACC Room 11A |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Tapping into the private sector: private providers and private finance for the SDGs | Half a loaf is better than none: coverage, capacity and constraints of private sector health facilities in Somalia. (Rashid Zaman, Oxford Policy Management, UK) | Wednesday, October 10, 14:00-15:30 | ACC Room 11C |
Oral presentation session | Health systems in post-conflict and fragile settings | This session explores the challenges of health system development in fragile and post-conflict settings, addressing issues of ensuring access to services, financial protection, and the transition from humanitarian crisis to health systems strengthening.
| Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC Room 11A |
Presentations during Oral session | Session: Health justice for marginalized populations |
| Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Room 3B |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Systems thinking as a lens for analysing health and other sectors | Ethnic health systems strengthening in post-conflict ethnic regions of Northeastern Myanmar: a qualitative study. (Yingxi Zhao, University of Washington, USA) | Thursday, October 11, 11:00-12:30 | ACC Room 3A |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Methodological approaches to understanding complex realities | Understanding therapeutic geographies in the context of the Boko Haram insurgency: a systems dynamics analysis using group model building (Louise Kengne, Research for Development International, Yaoundé, Cameroon) | Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC Room 11C |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Integrating health services to better meet patient needs
| The synergic effect of integrating mental health support to the physical health promotion program among Syrian refugees and Jordanians in host communities. (Shang-Ju Li, Americares Foundation, USA) | Thursday, October 11, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC Room 11B |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Scaling up health systems interventions
| Scaling up community health: prioritization and costing of the community health service packages in Madagascar and South Sudan (David Collins, management Sciences for Health, USA) | Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Room 11A |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Improving access to health services through community approaches | Acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of low-literate community health workers delivering treatment to children with severe acute malnutrition in Aweil South County, South Sudan (Naoko Kozuki, International Rescue Committee, USA) | Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Room 11C |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Governance and accountability for strong community health systems | Governing health systems response to emergencies: community connections and disconnections in managing Sierra Leone’s Ebola crisis. (Susannah Mayhew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) | Friday, October 12, 09:00 – 10:30 | ACC Room 3A |
Presentation during Oral session | Session: Engaging the private sector in service delivery | A reproductive health voucher scheme can support the public health system and reach the most vulnerable in conflict setting: lessons from Yemen (Majed Alsharjabi, Options Consultancy Services, UK) | Friday, October 12, 09:00 – 10:30 | ACC Room 4A |
Posters: |
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Posters | Poster sessions (see program once announced) |
| October 10 – 12 | You can locate the relevant poster session and location using the poster number listed, once this session information is available. |