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High-quality #laboratoryservices are the unsung heroes of effective health systems, playing a crucial role in guiding treatment decisions, combating #antimicrobialresistance, and monitoring emerging health threats. Yet despite their critical importance, laboratories, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, often struggle due to weak operational infrastructure, unreliable #supplychains, and a general scarcity of resources and expertise. I had the privilege of collaborating recently with colleagues from @Mott MacDonald and @ICF on an insightful action report, "Why Laboratory Investment Matters: Rethinking the Role of Laboratory Services in Global Health," that sheds light on these challenges and presents viable solutions for addressing them. Our report—which was presented at a recent one-day conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by @Management Sciences for Health, Mott MacDonald and ICF—stresses the importance of integrating laboratory networks, fostering partnerships with the private sector, professionalizing the sector, and ensuring equitable access to clinical services as pivotal steps toward improvement. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the #globalhealth community has increasingly recognized the imperative of establishing and maintaining strong laboratory and diagnostic capacities worldwide. This moment presents a unique opportunity to turn our good intentions into concrete, impactful investments throughout the healthcare system. By working together, we can fortify laboratory services and build a healthier future for all. Learn more about the action report, the launch event, and the many ways MSH is working to strengthen laboratory systems in their latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e6h-ygUD

🚨Our NEW REPORT is out! By engaging nearly 150 global health leaders across various disciplines and sectors, the Alliance’s study utilizes an implementation science lens to understand why numerous evidence-based interventions continue to fall short of their full potential, even with the considerable advancements and investments that have marked #globalhealth in recent years. Our insights report, Implementing for Health Equity: Narrowing the Know-Do Gap, aims to illuminate the barriers that prevent the effective implementation of promising public health interventions and crystallize a vision to bridge the evidence-to-practice gap and enhance health equity. 💡 Download the report: https://lnkd.in/e2A7FVgh With special thanks to Sara Anderson, Abbey Seaboyer Kocan, Aditi R., Colin Boyle, Krista Donaldson, and Thu Do. #ImplementingForHealthEquity #ImplementationScience #HealthEquity

What should EU's health priorities be? By participating in this survey from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, you can help carve out key priority areas for EU action in health. We are all stakeholders in health, care and healthcare. It is, therefore, important to get our voices heard... starting by filling out the survey and critically following up on this initiative. #cocreation #transdisciplinary #healthcareinnovation

Save the date for May 8, when Erica Galvez, CEO, Manifest MedEx, will join other health data leaders in a discussion titled, “How Health Information Exchanges and Emerging Health Data Utilities are Leveraging Data to Address Public Health” at AcademyHealth’s Health Data Leadership Institute. Register here to learn more about the value of collaboration and partnerships with public health organizations: https://bit.ly/3VymGe8

The UK is internationally recognised for its impactful life and health research. Excellence in research and the ability to benefit patients is often underpinned by collaboration between the variety of sectors in the life sciences and health ecosystem. However, barriers to cross-sector collaboration remain, and our latest FORUM roundtable report makes the case for: ✅National leadership and coordination ✅Learning from best practice ✅Skills and capacity building ✅Better health dataset access and linkage   Read more: https://bit.ly/forum_rt

Global health market shaping is crucial to building equitable health solutions. But to maximize impact, we — together — must coalesce around shared market shaping principles.    Population Services International is honored to contribute to the #GHMS2024 Foundations of Market Shaping resource so that practitioners everywhere can work from a shared foundational understanding: https://lnkd.in/eqDmvayn #MarketShaping #HealthForAll #GlobalHealth

Adapting our global health systems for a more equitable, sustainable future isn't a one-size-fits-all kind of thing. Join the Abt Global team this Tuesday, June 4th, as we discuss practical ways we can move forward with this in mind. Register for our webinar, The Future of Health Systems: Advancing Health Systems Strengthening: Metrics, Learnings, and Future Directions below: #FutureOfHealth #HealthSystems #GlobalHealth

Don’t miss the session on May 8, when Erica Galvez, CEO, Manifest MedEx, will join other health data leaders in a discussion, “How Health Information Exchanges and Emerging Health Data Utilities are Leveraging Data to Address Public Health” at AcademyHealth’s Health Data Leadership Institute. Register here to learn more about the value of collaboration and partnerships with public health organizations.  https://lnkd.in/dgNEjZWZ  

These past two days I've had the opportunity to learn about Inequity Measurement in Canadian Health Systems from a diverse range of industry experts. This workshop series put on by Institute for Better Health - Trillium Health Partners, allowed participants to: 1) Gain insight into methods being used or considered within other health systems 2) Share how equity data is collected, shared & used to address & reduce inequities 3) Discussed systematic integration of inequity measures to ensure equity is a key component of decision making & service design across health systems. With: Aliya Allen-Valley, Dr. Sarah Sowden, Laura Rosella, Varsha Naik

Join me in improving and shaping the future of public health and health care delivery. Learn more about @Altarum in our 2023 Impact Report!