Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis?

Jeffrey V Lazarus; Dina Balabanova; Kelly Safreed-Harmon; Karen Daniels; Kopano Matlwa Mabaso; Martin McKee; Tolib Mirzoev; Adnan A Hyder; Sofia Gruskin

doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0842-z

Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis?

BMC Health Serv Res. 2015 May 7:15:192. doi: 10.1186/s12913-015-0842-z.

Authors

Jeffrey V Lazarus¹, Dina Balabanova², Kelly Safreed-Harmon³, Karen Daniels⁴, Kopano Matlwa Mabaso⁵, Martin McKee⁶, Tolib Mirzoev⁷, Adnan A Hyder⁸, Sofia Gruskin^{9

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Affiliations

¹ CHIP, Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research and WHO Collaborating Centre on HIV and Viral Hepatitis, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Jeffrey.Lazarus@regionh.dk.
² Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. dina.balabanova@lshtm.ac.uk.
³ CHIP, Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research and WHO Collaborating Centre on HIV and Viral Hepatitis, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. kelly@safreed-harmon.com.
⁴ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa. Karen.Daniels@mrc.ac.za.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. kopano.mabaso@dph.ox.ac.uk.
⁶ The Centre for Health and Social Change (ECOHOST), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Martin.McKee@lshtm.ac.uk.
⁷ Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. T.Mirzoev@leeds.ac.uk.
⁸ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD, USA. ahyder1@jhu.edu.
⁹ Program on Global Health and Human Rights, Institute for Global Health, Gould School of Law, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Gruskin@med.usc.edu.
¹⁰ Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Gruskin@med.usc.edu.

Abstract

Health systems experts from around the world discuss why they were meeting at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research while people were dying of Ebola in West Africa.

Publication types

Congress
Letter

MeSH terms

Africa, Western / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care*
Global Health
Government Programs
Health Services Research*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola* / epidemiology
Humans
Medical Assistance
Research