By Kate Tulenko With the global migration of health workers increasing and population growth outstripping the training of new health workers in more and more countries, there is increasing emphasis on finding effective ways to retain health workers in country. … Continue reading
JOB OPPORTUNITY [published 27th November 2013] Research Fellow (2 posts); Departments of Health Services Research & Policy/ Social & Environmental Health Research We are seeking to appoint two Research Fellows to join the NIHR School for Public Health Research team at LSHTM … Continue reading
We are pleased to invite you to a symposium where we will be presenting the initial key results of the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal 3) which are due to be published in the Lancet on … Continue reading
The results of Natsal-3 have been published today in The Lancet
By Adam Koon Successful health finance reforms in several upper and lower middle-income countries have helped drive universal health coverage (UHC) to the top of the global health agenda. Unfortunately, low-income countries have few examples to guide them towards UHC. … Continue reading
By Lara Brearley 2014 must be the year of the newborn. As Smith’s recent article states, despite huge strides in child survival, progress during the neonatal period has been disproportionately slow. Inaction is no longer an option – in many … Continue reading
The NIHR Annual Report for 2012/2013 is now published. The report is in a new format with four main sections illustrating the work carried out by the NIHR in the last year. The four sections are: Section 1: Patients and the public … Continue reading
SPHR@L Seminar Series NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM Telling policy stories: an ethnographic study of the use of evidence in policy-making in the UK Speaker: Professor Alex Stevens (University of Kent) Download the abstract Read the seminar blog … Continue reading
Be wary of policy-makers bearing evidence The use of evidence in policy-making is subject to systematic bias, argues Professor Alex Stevens, who observed behind the scenes in a Whitehall government department How do civil servants use evidence in their everyday … Continue reading
In case you missed our call for papers over the summer, there’s still time to submit your paper on ‘the science and practice of people-centred health systems’ for publication in a special supplement for the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. … Continue reading