ReBUILD for Resilience

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🎙️ Let's talk health finance, gender, resilience, the health workforce, migration and non-state actors.

Listen to our podcast series - Stories of Resilience: Local Lives and Health Systems
▶️https://www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/podcast-series/

In Sierra Leone a man in a shirt and tie is being vaccinated by a woman. Both are wearing masks and are surrounded by cool boxes. Image: WHO/Saffea Gborie

If we're to be ready for the next pandemic, we need to learn lessons from the last one

Paper from Institute for Development - The effectiveness of the Sierra Leone health sector’s response to COVID-19 - seeks to do just that buff.ly/wrrpbpG

@ighd.bsky.social

A female emergency worker cares for a baby wrapped in foil with scratches on their face. They are with other emergency health workers in an orange tent. Plus the title 'Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye'

New brief - Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye buff.ly/BGwM5OU

More on the study - Exploring health workforce preparedness for shocks in Türkiye - here: buff.ly/giUZ6Np

@lstmnews.bsky.social

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Current study - Empowering refugee close-to-community healthcare providers through advocacy networks

We're exploring how grassroots advocacy in #Lebanon empowers the #Syrian women to improve their rights & working conditions.

#gender @discoveringaub.bsky.social

Details here... buff.ly/kUzx9XU

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There's an urgent conversation taking place on the role of the global health initiatives.

In this paper, Sophie Witter et al examine the political economy of reforms, drawing from work which contributed to the #LusakaAgenda

www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/un...

@ighd.bsky.social

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Current study: Situation analysis of health services in the earthquake-affected areas of Mandalay and Sagaing, Myanmar
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social Myanmar assess the health care response to the earthquakes in #Myanmar, focusing on camp settings.

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🎞️ Conflicts create regions of limited statehood, where govs struggle to provide essential services.
What does that mean for the millions left without care?
Prof Fouad Fouad explores the issue in this video

▶️https://buff.ly/peTS2Hb

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Recent article: Mind the Gap: Reflections on the future of data-driven Community Health Worker programmes

@carlnkwain.bsky.social reports from a @joinchic.bsky.social roundtable on developing a best-practice guide for CHW prog funders

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@ighd.bsky.social

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Poster from @herdintl.bsky.social : Factors associated with a resilient maternal health system: Evidence from Kapilvastu, Nepal

Based on a study in the district with the second highest maternal mortality rate in Nepal
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...

@shophika.bsky.social

Title screen from 'Political economy analysis of health financing reforms in times of crisis – three case studies from South east Asia by Professor Sophie Witter'

ReBUILD team members Sophie Witter & @sushilbaral.bsky.social recently took part in a WHO SEARO webinar - 'Politics & Health: Navigating the Political Economy of Health Financing Reforms'. Watch the webinar here: www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/we...

@herdintl.bsky.social @ighd.bsky.social

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Current study from the @herdintl.bsky.social team...
Strengthen coordination mechanisms & improve health system resilience across local governments in Kapilvastu, Nepal
Co-creating intensive interventions at our learning site, including maternal health care uptake

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A female emergency worker cares for a baby wrapped in foil with scratches on their face. They are with other emergency health workers in an orange tent. Plus the title 'Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye'

New brief - Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye

buff.ly/BGwM5OU

More on the study - Exploring health workforce preparedness for shocks in Türkiye - here: buff.ly/giUZ6Np

@paulmarsden.bsky.social

Introduction to political economy analysis - a new video - with a slide from the presentation

🎞️ Introduction to political economy analysis
Maria Bertone explores what it is, how it can be helpful in #healthsystems research, and how you do it
Find out here...
▶️https://www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/video-introduction-political-economy-analysis/

@ighd.bsky.social

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How do you operationalise health justice?
Read how ReBUILD has sought to use it as a guiding principle and embedded practice in Myanmar, Nepal, Lebanon and Sierra Leone in this new paper.
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/he...

@herdintl.bsky.social

Four Nepalese women examining a camera on a tripod and the words 'Workshop - Artistic methods to support just health systems: Exploring the pros and cons of film - Wednesday 1 October'

TOMORROW... Would you like to learn about the practicalities of working in film for health systems research?

If you are at the CREATE 2025 conference in South Africa you can - join our workshop

Details... www.rebuildconsortium.com/rebuild-at-c...

@shahreenc.bsky.social

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New case study...
Strengthening community health systems for improved health service utilization at the local level in Nepal
Explores how @herdintl.bsky.social advocated & supported municipal & ward-level actors to plan & deliver strengthening activities.
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A masked woman and a boy walk round a destroyed building and the words 'post crisis 2' with a list of post-conflict problems for Syria's health system

Sophie Witter recently presented 'Strengthening health financing in complex humanitarian contexts: analysis from Northwest Syria and its implications for other disrupted contexts'.
If you missed her you'll find the slides here... www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/he...

@ighd.bsky.social

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Latest article... From local experiment to national movement: Majdal Anjar’s model for health governance in Lebanon

Read how ReBUILD success supporting a Lebanese municipality is being received, from MoH to other towns - from model to movement.

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@discoveringaub.bsky.social

Four Nepalese women examining a camera on a tripod and the words 'Workshop - Artistic methods to support just health systems: Exploring the pros and cons of film - Wednesday 1 October'

Would you like to learn about the practicalities of working in film for health systems research?

If you are at the CREATE 2025 conference in South Africa next week you can - join our workshop

Details... www.rebuildconsortium.com/rebuild-at-c...

@shahreenc.bsky.social @discoveringaub.bsky.social

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New case study... The inclusion of people with disabilities in health system building at community level
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social #Myanmar examines the contextual challenges & opportunities for promoting disability-inclusive community-based health systems buff.ly/OxG3uGc

Title of the webinar plus a photo of 3 female community health volunteers in Nepal - all wearing blue and red saris

Did you miss our recent webinar with @cpintl.org - Gender transformative programming: Community health workers as agents of social change?

If so, watch it here: buff.ly/qzR2YuA

@chwcentral.bsky.social
@joinchic.bsky.social

Agenda for Friday's session

The 1st Global Migrants Health Summit takes place in New York from tomorrow and the ReBUILD team from @herdintl.bsky.social is presenting 'Role of diaspora in supporting health system resilience in Nepal'.
Check out the agenda here and watch via Zoom
www.phomir.net/program-sche...

A group of Sierra Leonian men and women sit around a table. They are listening to a women in a blue top speaking while writing on a sheet of flip chart paper

How can communities and health systems be effectively connected in #SierraLeone?
Read how the ReBUILD team used trust, inclusion and local stakeholder groups in this case study
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/tr...

@ighd.bsky.social

Title screen from 'Political economy analysis of health financing reforms in times of crisis – three case studies from South east Asia by Professor Sophie Witter'

ReBUILD team members Sophie Witter & @sushilbaral.bsky.social recently took part in a WHO SEARO webinar - 'Politics & Health: Navigating the Political Economy of Health Financing Reforms'. Watch the webinar here: www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/we...
@herdintl.bsky.social @ighd.bsky.social

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Case study - how a #Lebanon Municipal Health Committee has co-developed & implemented a context-specific, evidence-based governance model which is generating a lot of external interest
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/da...

@discoveringaub.bsky.social

A photo of children in a wooden hut wearing masks and building something with wood and the title 'Frontline Resilience: How CHWs Are Responding to the Health Impacts of Climate Change'

TOMORROW!!!
Frontline Resilience: How CHWs Are Responding to the Health Impacts of Climate Change
🕚 07:00 UTC
Explore CHWs' evolving role at the intersection of climate & health, lived experiences, policy gaps & opps to better equip CHWs for climate-responsive care.
Register here: buff.ly/rkv8Gpc

A female community health volunteer in a pale blue sari stands in front of a group of seated Nepali women. She is showing a book about child and maternal health and the women are listening.

Case study: how dialogue, collaboration & joint problem solving across 3 tiers of government & 10 municipalities was made possible by @herdintl.bsky.social's multi-tier health system coordination mechanism
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/mu...

@sushilbaral.bsky.social

A white jeep turned into an ambulance with Nepali words and flag on the side and 'Ambulance' in English.

A lifeline for the people: Free ambulance service in Suddhodhan Rural Municipality

@HERDIntl report from Kapilvastu District on the introduction, assessment, challenges & future of this vital service

www.rebuildconsortium.com/free-ambulan...

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Case study...
Get an overview of the evidence ReBUILD has provided for policy and practice on the topic of health system strengthening in fragile and shock-prone settings
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/pr...

@ighd.bsky.social

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What happens when first responders to a crisis are also the victims?
Wesam Mansour explores the emergency response in #Türkiye after the 2023 earthquakes and the effects of the disaster on health workers
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