Category: Webinars & Training
Webinar: “Health Economics Tools”
In this CHORUS webinar, Dr. Bryony Dawkins and Professor Tim Ensor discuss the role of health economics in helping to understand and evaluate health systems and health system interventions. The presentation presents nine techniques and tools, from understanding sources of funding and funding flows, through analysis of equity, economic evaluation and provider payments. …
Webinar: “Multi-sectoral responses to address the wider determinants of health”
In this CHORUS Webinar: Professor Helen Elsey chairs the session and introduces the topic looking at WHO’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) and the importance of multi-sectoral approaches for CHORUS. Professor Charles Hongoro (HSRC) joins the CHORUS team and shares experiences on working across sectors on urban agricultures and food systems Dr. Jemma Phillips (UoL)…
Webinar: PEN Training at Urban Primary Health Care Facilities, with Professor Malay K. Mridha
Professor Malay K. Mridha, from James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, joins the CHORUS team for a webinar on the integration of Package of Essential Non-Communicable Diseases (PEN) interventions in urban primary health care systems. He presents on the components of PEN; evidence of benefits of implementing PEN in different countries;…
Blog: Measuring and Addressing Deprivation in Informal Settlements: Two Frameworks to Use
Delali Kumapley, Research Uptake Officer, CHORUS Ghana In this blog, Delali Kumapley (CHORUS RU Officer) reports back on the recent webinar with CHORUS, IDEAMAPs, and the University of York’s Urbanisation and Health Network, on ‘Measuring and Responding to Urban Deprivation in Cities, in Low and Middle-Income Countries’, held on 7th July 22. The webinar showcased…
Blog: Community Mapping and Domains of Deprivation
Delali Kumapley, Research Uptake Officer, CHORUS Ghana Community Mapping and GIS: Application for Health Research – Summary and Reflections from the Webinar Available statistics show that Sub-Saharan Africa records the highest number of slum dwellers. About 62% of the region’s urban population resides in slums as compared to 35% in Southern Asia (UN-Habitat, 2014). Although…
Webinar: Community Mapping and GIS, and Application for Health Research, with Dr. Caroline Kabaria
Dr. Caroline Kabaria joins the CHORUS team for a webinar on community mapping and its application for health research. Dr. Kabaria, Associate Research Scientist at the African Population and Health Research Centre, discusses her work on the participatory mapping of health services in slum areas in Kenya. She brings her expertise in geo-informatics and spatial…
Webinar: Measuring and responding to urban deprivation in cities in low and middle income countries
CHORUS, IDEAMAPS and University of York’s Urbanisation and Health Network collaborate to bring a webinar on Measuring and Responding to Urban Deprivation 7th July 2022 11.00 – 12.00 BST In rapidly growing and changing urban areas in the global south, decision-makers, from communities to governments, face many challenges in understanding and responding to the…
Webinar: Developing a Typology of Private Healthcare Providers
Professor Tim Ensor is a CHORUS Research Director at the University of Leeds. In this webinar he discusses how the non-government sector is an important player in the formal or informal delivery of medical services. This mix of the public and private funding and healthcare provision present in the health systems of the four CHORUS…
Webinar: Health System Responsiveness
Professor Tolib Mirzoev discusses how health system responsiveness is framed and empirically assessed, to inform possible application of this concept in the CHORUS projects. The session draws on the original WHO framework and subsequent background review paper, and insights from collaborative research from the the on-going RESPONSE (improving systems responsiveness in Ghana and Vietnam)…
Gender and Intersectionality Webinar – 10 January 2022
by Samina Huque, ARK Foundation A webinar was arranged on ‘Gender and Intersectionality Planning” on 10th January 2022. The objective of the webinar was to provide guidance on using the gender and intersectionality framework (CHORUS’ Gender and Intersectionality Guide) to reflect on the data collection and to further shape the health systems intervention to be…