Implementation research to catalyze advances in health systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa: the African Health Initiative

Kenneth Sherr,Jennifer Harris Requejo,Paulin Basinga

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-s2-s1

Abstract

Implementation research to catalyze advances in health systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa: the African Health Initiative

Highlights

The importance of strengthening health systems has gained increased attention in recent years, and there have been renewed calls for a focus on health systems as part and parcel of meeting the health related Millennium Development Goals.[1,2] Despite the growing focus on health systems, the largest global health initiatives – such as PEPFAR, PMI, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and GAVI – continue to have a disease specific focus
* Correspondence: ksherr@uw.edu 1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF).[3]
Annual meetings of the Population Health and Implementation Training (PHIT) Data Collaborative are held to review progress with PHIT Partnership activities over the course of the year, provide ongoing updates on implementation, enable partnership teams to present and discuss initial results, as well as prioritize and select cross-Partnership activities to be supported through the Collaborative Management Committee (CMC) funds

Summary

Introduction

The importance of strengthening health systems has gained increased attention in recent years, and there have been renewed calls for a focus on health systems as part and parcel of meeting the health related Millennium Development Goals.[1,2] Despite the growing focus on health systems, the largest global health initiatives – such as PEPFAR, PMI, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and GAVI – continue to have a disease specific focus. * Correspondence: ksherr@uw.edu 1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article the DDCF.[3] The foundation created a modest fund to support cross-project activities identified by the CMC.

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