Training about health systems and policy research through designing the training materials, resources, tools, methods and frameworks, and developing a repository of knowledge products will be held.

We will also organize occasional policy forums relating to the application of health system and policy research on topics as ageing, system reform, regulation of professionals, primary health care, quality and safety, etc. Post-forum papers will be published as policy briefs and/ or in academic journals.

With the above key components, we aim to apply health policy and systems research as a means to strengthen health systems – which includes generation of health policy and systems knowledge, promotion of its use in decision making to improve the performance of health systems, and strengthening researchers’ and decision makers’ capacity to engage in these efforts.