SHAPES is a thematic working group focused on social science approaches for research and engagement in health policy & systems. SHAPES convenes activities and discussions to strengthen the application, and raise the profile of social science approaches.
If you would like to find out more about the SHAPES 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 space
- Follow #SHAPESHSR on Twitter
- Join us at one of the exciting sessions listed below.
Official TWG sessions
Session Type | Title | Short description | Date & time | Location |
Organized Session | SHAPES Debates: Are social sciences irrelevant to health systems policy making | Global health and health systems policy is typically informed by the biomedical and health sciences, with epidemiology playing a dominant role. Join us for a panel debate with audience participation on the proposition: that social sciences are irrelevant in health systems policymaking today. | Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 1B |
Business meeting | TWG business meeting: Social Science Approaches for Research and Engagement in Health Policy & Systems (SHAPES) | SHAPES Thematic Working Group business meeting – all welcome and encouraged to attend | Wednesday, October 10, 12:30 – 13:45 | ACC Hall 2E |
Launch | LAUNCH of the SHAPES Special Issue of IJEqH: Showcasing Social Science Approaches to Health Systems and Policy Research | Join the Guest Editors to celebrate this issue with presentations from authors: Sana Contractor, Anne Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Anuj Kapilashrami, Veena Sriram & Simon Lewin | Tuesday, October 9, 7:30 – | ACC room 3B |
TWG member sessions
Name of SHAPES member | Session Type | Title of presentation | Date & time | Location |
Kadidiatou Kadio | Poster | Comment la connaissance scientifique informe le processus politique? Le cas de la politique nationale de protection sociale du Burkina Faso |
| ACC Hall 2N, Galleria & Level 3 |
Nasreen Jessani | Satellite session | Making Universal Health Coverage a reality by 2030: evidence of what works | Monday, October 8, 9:00 – 11:00 | ACC room 4B |
Sassy Molyneux | Skills building session | Navigating day to day ethics dilemmas in health policy and systems research | Monday, October 8, 13:00 – 17:00 | ACC room 12 |
Rene Loewenson | Satellite session | Shaping health: Grounding health action in community cultures and systems | Tuesday, October 9, 13:30 | Conference room 14 |
Fabiana da Cunha Saddi | Satellite session | Pay for Performance (P4P), how, why, where and what? Learning from research across income settings: a one day workshop for researchers and practitioners | Tuesday, October 9, 8:00 – 17:00 | Mersey Suite, Pullman Hotel (Kings Dock, Monarchs Quay, L3 4FP), Liverpool |
André Janse van Rensburg | Oral presentation | The significance of power dynamics in shaping government and private sector mental health care engagement in constrained resource settings: Lessons from South Africa | Tuesday, October 9, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 4A |
Valéry Ridde | Poster | A video for better management of dengue fever in a health system focused on malaria in Burkina Faso | Wednesday, October 10, 10:40 – 10:45 | ACC Hall 2M SESSION ID: G1 |
Sarah Dalglish | Oral presentation | Adapting acute malnutrition treatment protocols in fragile and conflict-affected settings to reach every child | Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 11C |
Peter Delobelle | Poster | Poster presentation | Wednesday, October 10, 13:15 | ACC Hall 2N, Galleria & Level 3 (posters) |
Stephanie Topp | Poster | Rethinking Retention: Mapping Interactions Between Multiple Factors That Influence Long-Term Engagement in HIV Care | Wednesday, October 10, 13:30 – 13:35 | ACC Hall 2M |
Nasreen Jessani | TWG organized session | Bringing the pieces together: Multiple perspectives on translating evidence into action | Wednesday, October 10, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC Main Auditorium |
Abi Deivanayagam | Poster | Financing health systems that leave no-one behind: a survey of models from 20 nations and their provision for 20 marginalised population groups | Wednesday, October 10, 15:45 – 15:50 | ACC Hall 2M |
Sumegha Asthana | Oral presentation | Global health discourses | Wednesday, October 10, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 11B |
Kerry Scott | Oral session | Institutions for accountability and trust | Wednesday, October 10, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 4A |
Ana B. Amaya | Panel session | Working with the neighbours: the opportunities and challenges for health systems within regional trading bloc | Wednesday, October 10, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Hall 2N
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Dickson Okello | Oral presentation | The role of leadership in Health System Strengthening | Wednesday, October 10, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 4B |
Elisabeth PAUL | Panel session | It’s not just about money: why work on UHC requires a multidisciplinary approach to establish national legal and institutional frameworks | Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 12 |
Kerry Scott | Oral presentation | “Yes, no, maybe so: The importance of cognitive interviewing to enhance structured surveys on respectful maternity care for use in rural India” in Methodological approaches to understanding complex realities | Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 11C |
Rene Loewenson | Oral presentation | Health as core business: integrating duties for health and health systems in the extractive sector in east and southern Africa | Thursday, October 11, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC room 4A |
Emilie Robert | Participatory session | Le dialogue sur les politiques: partage d’expériences et de données probantes pour renforcer la multisectorialité dans la gouvernance du système de santé | Thursday, October 11, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC room 3A |
Valéry Ridde | Oral presentation | Lack of access to health care for children born in Canada to migrant parents without medical insurance in Quebec (Canada) | Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 3B |
Sassy Molyneux | Organized session | Incorporating a justice lens into HPSR ethics: implications for policy and practice in the global south | Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 12 |
Michelle Sadler | Panel session | Covering the Last Mile of Maternal Health Programming | Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Hall 2F |
Kaaren Mathias | Organized session | New frontiers in community based health systems: experiences in the collaborative governance of innovations that expand access | Friday, October 12, 9:00 – 10:30 | ACC Hall 2E |
Stephanie Topp | Oral presentation | “We are everything to everyone”: factors influencing accountability relationships of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (AHWs) in the Australian health system | Friday, October 12, 9:00 – 10:30 | ACC room 3A |
Tim Martineau | Panel session | Lessons on scaling up interventions to improve equitable access to health care | Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 1C |
Elisabeth Paul | Poster | Poster presentation | Friday, October 12, 12:45 | ACC Hall 2N, Galleria & Level 3: ID H3 |
Kerry Scott | Panel session | Community embeddedness: How community health actors in diverse health system contexts negotiate between government and community needs, values and relationships | Friday, October 12, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC Hall 2L |