Health Systems and Training Initiatives. The Keystone HPSR Short Courses: Developing Capacities for Policy Relevant Health Policy and Systems Research

The production of policy-relevant knowledge for health systems change in India is not adequate to meet country needs. This is attributable partly to inadequacies in numbers of rigorously trained researchers in Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR), and partly to a fragmented environment for HPSR. Although, skilled researchers exist across diverse organisations, they tend to operate within academic disciplinary silos (economics, political science, anthropology, public health), rather than as part of a cohesive change-creating HPSR community.

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Garimella S, Raman VR, Varghese J, Sheikh K. Health Systems and Training Initiatives. The Keystone HPSR Short Courses: Developing Capacities for Policy Relevant Health Policy and Systems Research. BMJ Glob Health. 2016, 1(Suppl 1). A36-37. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-EPHPabstracts.49