The Teaching and Learning Health Policy and Systems Research Thematic Working Group (TWG) was established in 2013 and focuses on ways to improve the teaching and learning of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) around the world, with an emphasis on applications in low and middle-income countries and disadvantaged populations.
If you would like to find out more about the Teaching and Learning 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
- Join our LinkedIn Group or our Google Group
- Email us at hpsrmapping@gmail.com
- Hang out with the Teaching and Learning Thematic Working Group at the Symposium in Liverpool
- Join us at one of the exciting sessions listed below.
Official TWG sessions
Session Type | Title | Short description | Date & time | Location |
Organized session | Competencies for Health Policy and Systems Research: Findings From a Global Mapping and Consensus-building Process and Case Examples of Competencies in Practice
| This session will provide a forum to share the results of a consultative research process to develop global competencies—a set of knowledge, skills, and abilities—for HPSR. The competencies will be presented along with a set of diverse cases of processes for competency development and use from around the world. | Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 1B |
Business meeting | TWG business meeting: Teaching and Learning Health Policy and Systems Research | Tuesday, October 9, 10:30 – 11:45 | ACC room 1C |
Supporting resources for TWG sessions
TWG member sessions
Session Type | Title of presentation | Short description of session/presentation | Date & time | Location |
Poster presentation | Comment la connaissance scientifique informe le processus politique? Le cas de la politique nationale de protection sociale du Burkina Faso | |||
Skill building session | Strengthening implementation science capacity to support Universal Health Coverage at country level | The purpose of this session is to strengthen skills in implementation science to support countries in their efforts to introduce and sustain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) interventions and programmes. The session will also introduce a variety of tools developed at global level that can be adapted for country needs. The target audience includes governmental, multinational, bilateral, and civil society decision makers and implementers in the health and related sectors in lower- and middle-income countries. | Tuesday, October 9, 8:00 – 12:00 | Exhibition Centre Room 20 |
Poster presentation | Variability of medicine prices in health facilities and pharmacy outlets in north-west Nigeria: A challenge for equitable health systems for all | In resource poor settings, there is need for consideration of medicines pricing related to demand and supply. Government and health-care-providers should consider this pricing most especially during prescription of medicines to ensure accessibility and affordability by the patients or consumers. High cost of medicines continues to be a challenge in the health care system of Nigeria because majority of the citizens are either less-privileged or poor. The objectives of this research study are to investigate the prices and availability of medicines as they vary among the different health facilities and pharmacy outlets. Furthermore, it examines the differences in price of innovator-brand products and generic equivalents. | ||
Organized session | Addressing the politics of policy change in taking action on inequity and social exclusion | This session will stimulate thinking on the political action needed to take advantage of the new opportunities created by the SDGs to tackle the continuing challenges of inequity and social exclusion, showcasing the work of a new generation of PhD scholars researching the politics of policy change. | Wednesday, October 10, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC Hall 2L |
Organized session | Growing the ‘p’ in HPSR: Southern-led networking to strengthen analysis of health policy change | Southern-led analysis of health policy processes remains an under-developed area of health policy and systems research. This session will take stock of relevant capacity development initiatives and, showcasing LMIC-led initiatives, will draw lessons for those interested in growing the ‘p’ in HPSR – be they educators, researchers or health policy-makers. | Thursday, October 11, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC Hall 2F |
Poster | Integrating with immunization for Universal Health Coverage: demand-side evidence from Papua New Guinea on integrated service delivery for post-partum families | Integrated services should focus firstly on clients’ multiple health needs, but are all too often driven by program planners with specific interventions to scale-up. Immunization is a commonly sought platform for integrated service delivery because of its reach, but not all interventions are suited to this form of integration and not all clients want their services delivered this way. This presentation builds on the author’s systematic literature review of immunization integration by prospectively surveying the preferences of pregnant women in rural PNG regarding service delivery. | Wednesday, October 10, 13:30 – 13:35 | ACC Hall 2M |
Skill building session | Capacity building for health systems strengthening using a country simulation: the example of social health insurance | Engage in an interactive simulation as advisors to the MoH in Mythica, a fictitious LMIC committed to UHC. Use tools to undertake an equity analysis and develop a social health insurance (SHI) scheme addressing the political, socioeconomic context, including Mythica’s health system constraints. Will the MoH select your SHI model? | Tuesday, October 9, 8:00 – 12:00 | Exhibition Centre Room 17 |