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Susan Batur, Matt, Barbara and Prarthna, Alison Morgan, Waithira Gikonyo, David Hall, Prarthna Dayal, Matthew Reeve, Claudia Vivas Torrealba, and Vanya Kasakova

Topics Covered

  • Health system structures, functions and components, and how they interact.
  • How to use evidence, and analysis of inequity, to drive interventions to strengthen health systems.
  • Strengthening health systems through action in areas such as health policy, financing, human resources, supply chain management, quality of care and private sector engagement.
  • Using complex systems thinking to address health system problems.

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