We’ve all heard the statistic that 80% of new businesses fail. But it’s less well known why. The simple truth is, despite the multiple options for funding – venture capital, angel investing, crowdfunding, start-up accelerator programs to name a few – a great majority of businesses fail due to lack of capital.
Azeb Tesema, PhD candidate at The George Institute for Global Health, examines the instrumental role of Ethiopian health extension workers (HEWs) in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) during the current pandemic.
Dr Xia Wang is a Doctoral Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health specialising in the analysis of large-scale randomised controlled trials and conducting epidemiological studies.
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In this blog J. K. Lakshmi, Vinodkumar Rao, Smruti Jukur, Prasanna Saligram and Surekha Garimella describe how the ARISE India team members met virtually to brainstorm the design, content, development, and administration of a survey to help understand the perceptions of health, well-being and associated concepts and experiences in communities.
Satellite Session of the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
The Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020) will bring together over 2,000 policy-makers, practitioners and researchers from more than 100 countries to explore how we can build health systems which improve people's health and are socially just. The symposium intends to play a catalytic role in convening a global community dedicated to strengthening health systems and building the field of health systems research.
The symposium will take place in three phases.
Phase One - from 8 - 12 November 2020 - features live and on-demand sessions, including plenaries, parallel sessions, skills building sessions, special panels, and virtual networking.
Phase Two - from 25 November 2020 - March 2021 - will consist of fortnightly parallel sessions to promote and facilitate exchange and community building around the HSR2020 sub-themes.
Phase Three - a culminating event to synthesize the main learnings from HSR2020 will take place in March 2021. This will be by invitation only.
Satellite Session: A focus on equity in health systems practice, research and policy in Asia – what are we learning?
This satellite session seeks to build the field of health equity research in the Asian region by presenting diverse approaches that increase equity in Asia, examining ways that equity can be built into public health measures (Indonesia), evidence synthesis (Thailand) or citizen engagement in health policy (Bangladesh) as well as measuring, identifying and addressing inequalities for disadvantaged populations (ethnic minorities in Vietnam, adolescents in India, and non-citizens in Malaysia). Breakout sessions will profile case studies from six Asian countries, we will then discuss and explore ways to build South-South collaboration and capacity for health equity practice, policy and research in Asia.
There will be an overview plenary, followed by breakout sessions that will profile case studies from six Asian countries, with time for discussion on lessons learned and ways ahead. The session culminates with discussant-led debriefs of group discussions, and an exploration of ways to build South-South collaboration and capacity for health equity practice, policy and research in Asia.
The George Institute for Global Health, India (TGI) and Ashoka University have come together to organise a virtual symposium on public health focussing on evidence, decision making and policy for COVID-19 in India on November 9, 2020 from 03:00 PM IST - 05:00 pm IST.
This symposium will be the first in a series of discussions on public health and policy in India anchored by the two institutions and will explore a range of issues, starting with the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic, including crucial role that evidence plays in decision-making pertaining to policy and implementation in health care, and inform policy and practice.
The first symposium will cover a range of topics such as understanding results from national sero- surveys, COVID-19 epidemiology and clinical aspects of COVID-19 and health policy in COVID-19. The symposium will involve an hour of individual presentations, followed by a panel discussion including questions from the online audience.
Dr. Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Research Fellow (Policy Impact) from the George Institute for Global Health, India
The symposium is open to all including public health specialists, policy experts, government representatives and researchers as well as interested members of the general public and students.
