HSR Symposium

The specific objectives of the symposium are to:

• share state-of-the art research on universal health coverage;

• develop a global agenda of priority research on accelerating progress towards universal health coverage;

• facilitate greater research collaboration and learning communities across disciplines, sectors, initiatives and countries;

• strengthen the scientific rigor of the field of health systems research including concepts, frameworks, measures and methods;

• identify mechanisms for strengthening capacities – individual, institutional and infrastructural – for research on health systems particularly in low- and middle-income countries.