what's the rap for bamako? tim evans, assistant director general, information, evidence and...
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What's the RAP for Bamako?
Tim Evans, Assistant Director General, Information, Evidence and Research Cluster,
WHO
Third Expert Consultation on Positive Synergies between health systems and
Global Health Initiatives 2 October, 2008
Overview
Background to the Bamako Ministerial Forum on Research for Health
What's the RAP (research action plan) for synergies?
1990: Commission on Health Research for Development
1996: Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research Relating to Future Intervention Options
2000: International Conference on Health Research for Development (Bangkok)
2004: Ministerial Summit on Health Research (Mexico)
2008: Bamako Ministerial Forum
The Road to Bamako!
Bamako, MaliNovember 17-19, 2008
Global Ministerial Forumon Research for Health
Themes Review & build on achievements
since Mexico 2004 Ministerial Summit on Health Research
Make new commitments drawing on "Research for Health" theme
AFRICA FOCUS – role of research in alleviating Africa's health problems
Nature of Meeting High Level research POLICY forum
whereby official country delegations (currently 60 including >40 Ministers) commit to Bamako Action Plan….that will go to WHO and UNESCO governing bodies
Announcements and LAUNCHES of initiatives
Scientific FORUM on specific topic areas in health security, health development and innovation for health
Global Context
The race for results Systems are in fashion!:
GAVI/GFATM – increasing "systems" fundingG8 focus on finances, workers, information Intl Health Partnership++++Delivery/operations research exploding
Africa Health Initiative - $100 million! …but research activities are too adhoc and
fragmented….
The challenges to scale up services for HIV, TB, malaria, and immunization
HIV/UA assessment report
Global Plan to stop TB
World Malaria report
GAVI/Norad report
• Inadequate financing• HR crisis • Affordable commodities • Stigma, discrimination…• Accountability
• Partnership alignment • Inadequate financing • Laboratory capacity • HR crisis • Quality drugs
• Drug efficacy • Information system • Inadequate financing
• HRH and Community
services • M&E
• HR crisis • Inadequate financing • Leadership and
management • Inter-agency
coordination
What's the opportunity for "synergies" research in Bamako? Follow-up from Mexico Figure prominently in the Bamako
Action Plan …Research PrioritiesResearch CapacitiesResearch StandardsResearch Translation
Health need
Measurement of th
e
problem – diagnosis
Understand causes of
the problem –
determinants
Dev
elo
pm
ent
of
solu
tio
ns
Translation and delivery of the solution
Evalu
ation
of th
e
effectiveness o
f the
solu
tion
A framework for health research priorities at WHO
Patient
Safety
Research
Measurement of th
e
problem – diagnosis
Understand causes of
the problem –
determinants
Dev
elo
pm
ent
of
solu
tio
ns
Translation and delivery of the solution
Evalu
ation
of th
e
effectiveness o
f the
solu
tion
Patient Safety Research: Establishing global research priorities - use of a Delphi method , expert peer review and a priority framework of harm relative to knowledge gap, likelihood of research delivering a solution, political support.
Measuring the burden of unsafe
care
Understanding the main causes & organizational and system failures that
lead to patient harm
Identification of locally effective and affordable
solutions
Adaptation of effective solutions to local contexts ensuring local
effectiveness and affordability
Evaluation of cost-effectiveness of solutions
PSP
Jordan
Morocco Egypt
South Africa
Tunisia
Kenya
Yemen
Sudan
Multi-country studies on prevalence of unsafe care
Argentina
Peru
Mexico
Colombia
Costa Rica
Brazil
Research on neglected
priority systems issues
Measurement of th
e
problem – diagnosis
Understand causes of
the problem –
determinants
Dev
elo
pm
ent
of
solu
tio
ns
Translation and delivery of the solution
Evalu
ation
of th
e
effectiveness o
f the
solu
tion
Alliance HPSR research areas Alliance HPSR works across all areas, given relatively limited (although growing) number of other partners in the field and limited existing research. The Alliance currently focuses on three specific themes – health financing, human resources for health, role of the non-state sector.
Variable quality of metrics
Critical need to improve understanding of
problemsE.g.. factors underlying
poor health worker motivation,
growth of the private health sector.
Key area of focus e.g.. incentives for health workers to locate in underserved areas,
strategies to promote universal coverage
Supporting the development of solutions e.g. mechanisms to identify
the poor
Advocating for andsupporting evaluationsof health systemstrengthening interventions
Alliance HPSR
Striking synergies: a three level approach to research
1. Community/Clinical the "coal face"; innovative delivery models,
transformative technologies
2. Systems/Policy supportFinancing, workforce, governance
3. Comprehensive assessmentmonitoring and evaluation
Research Priorities Agenda
Monitoring and Evaluation Research Agenda –
Coverage surveys of GHI interventions Cross-country survey on the strength of health systems Essential and non-essential indicators (data reduction!) Convergence – look at ways individual/clinical/facility based
records can be linked to population monitoring Evaluate specific efforts at synergy e.g. GAVI-HSS window Real-time or continuous evaluation of scaling up e.g.
UNICEF Catalytic Initiative
Research Capacity Stewardship
Clearer "identity" required to facilitate greater strategic collaboration/networking
Advocacy for policy and funding priority Financing
Longer term structural change in research funding e.g. "National Institute for Delivery Research"
Nearer term opportunities e.g. tap "research" funds from global sources such as global fund grants
Individuals and Institutions The research curricula, cadres, cohorts, careers Institutions
Academic/training Research – observatories, country learning platforms, public health institutes, Twinning
Standards Concepts/Frameworks
International classification on health systems and GHIs? Systems boundaries, functions, building blocks require greater
clarity What constitutes a "synergy"?
Measurement/Methods health systems metrics e.g. measures of coverage, governance Attributable fractions to systems, GHIs?
Conduct Ethics – informed consent, Information privacy, access to results
Innovative Research Designs GFATM-TDR – "operations research" UNICEF - "real-time scaled evaluation"
Standards of Evidence
If gold standard evidence for clinical medicine is the RCT, what is it for scaling up health systems and striking synergies with GHIs?
Retrospective: case studies of success and failure
Prospective: Four cell designs Real time experiments in implementation Innovative randomization
New Approaches to research: Complex adaptive systems
An emerging "field" of research
Beyond serendipity Towards "savvy" in striking systems synergies
A new science needed to: Illuminate the black box of delivery? Avoid the black hole of systems? Scale-up services more quickly, safely, equitably
and efficiently
Translation to Policy and Public Cultivating demand for this research by actively engaging
key policy constituencies G8 – Japan follow-up and lead into Italy…Canada GHI leadership, H8 Civil society Implementers
Accelerate translation of research to policy/action Facilitating mangers and policy makers to make evidence-
informed decisions e.g. EVIPNET Facilitate access to research
Health Systems Evidence Libraries e.g. Cochrane, Campbell –like effort for health systems
Innovative IT applications e.g. "Itropica" for synergies