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Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) is an international health policy partnership based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO).[1]

History

AHPSR co-sponsored the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in November 2012 in Beijing, China.[2]

Organization

AHPSR is listed as a “related initiative” of UHC2030.[3]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
John Lavis Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee member (November 2005 - October 2011); Working Group on Health Systems Evidence Synthesis member (April 2010 - March 2016)[4] Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, COVID-19 Evidence Network to Support Decision-making (COVID-END), Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges
Michael Kent Ranson -[5] Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Funding

AHPSR is funded by:[6]

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
  • Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  • Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
  • South African Medical Research Council (SAMRA)
  • Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
  • UNICEF
  • United Nations Foundation (UNF)
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Wellcome Trust

  1. About us. Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. Retrieved September 1, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220901034233/https://ahpsr.who.int/about-us ↩︎

  2. Financial contributors. (2016, August 18). Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. http://archive.today/2016.08.18-053752/http://healthsystemsresearch.org/hsr2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133&Itemid=212 ↩︎

  3. Health systems related initiatives. (2022). UHC2030. https://www.uhc2030.org/what-we-do/knowledge-and-networks/health-systems-related-initiatives/ ↩︎

  4. John Lavis CV. (2022, March 28). McMaster Health Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20221207165207/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/people-cv/lavis-cv.pdf ↩︎

  5. Sheikh, K., Ranson, M. K., & Gilson, L. (2014). Explorations on people centredness in health systems. Health Policy and Planning, 29(suppl 2), ii1–ii5. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czu082 ↩︎

  6. Funders. Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. Retrieved May 12, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220512032450/https://ahpsr.who.int/about-us/funders ↩︎