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Using Theories of Change to Inform Implementation of Health Systems Research and Innovation: Experiences of Future Health Systems Consortium Partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda

Published by: BioMed Central

The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the design, implementation and evaluation of development programmes. We document the experience of Future Health Systems (FHS) Consortium research teams in Bangladesh, India and Uganda with using ToC.

Health System Innovations: Adapting to Rapid Change

Published by: BioMed Central

A fundamental challenge for health systems is the need to adapt to changes in the patterns of health service need, scientific and technological developments, and the economic and institutional contexts within which providers of health services are embedded. This is especially true of many low and middle-income countries, where the pace of multiple and interconnected changes is breath-taking.

Structural drivers of vulnerability to zoonotic disease in Africa

This paper argues that addressing the underlying structural drivers of disease vulnerability is essential for a ‘One Health’...

Health System Innovations: Adapting to Rapid Change

Published by: BioMed Central

A fundamental challenge for health systems is the need to adapt to changes in the patterns of health service need, scientific and technological developments, and the economic and institutional contexts within which providers of health services are embedded. This is especially true of many low and middle-income countries, where the pace of multiple and interconnected changes is breath-taking.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Universal Health Coverage

The WHO launched a Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2015, with AMR being declared a global crisis by world leaders in the G7, G20 and the UN General Assembly. World leaders have also adopted universal health coverage (UHC) as a key target under the sustainable development goals. This paper argues that neither initiative is likely to succeed in isolation from the other and that the policy goals should be to both provide access to appropriate antimicrobial treatment and reduce the risk of the emergence and spread of resistance by taking a systems approach.

Emerging Disease or Emerging Diagnosis? Lassa Fever and Ebola in West Africa

It has become routine to attribute the tragedy of the West African Ebola epidemic to inexperience and lack of knowledge. The states and...

Epistemologies of Ebola: Reflections on the Experience of the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform

By September 2014, it was clear that conventional approaches to containing the spread of Ebola in West Africa were failing. Public...

Engaging ‘Communities’: Anthropological Insights from the West African Ebola Epidemic’

Published by: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B

The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlights how engaging with the sociocultural dimensions of epidemics is critical to mounting...