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HD105: Consortium for Research on Equity and Health Systems (CREHS)

Director: Kara Hanson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
http://www.crehs.lshtm.ac.uk/

Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems Programme record

CREHS aims to produce new knowledge on how to strengthen health system policies and interventions in ways which preferentially benefit the poorest people of the world. It will also strengthen the capacity of consortium partners to support local and global policy development through relevant, high quality, timely and well communicated research, and to develop as regional hubs of expertise.

Research will focus on four themes - recent health sector reform experiences, protection against the financial risks of ill-health, performance of the health workforce, and expanding coverage of high priority policies and interventions (scaling up). It will employ analytical frameworks drawn from economics and policy analysis.

Research questions and projects will be developed through researcher/policy-maker interaction, in order to identify and respond to demand for knowledge from research users. Research will focus on both policy design and the factors influencing policy change and implementation, and will be fed into the policy-making processes in partner countries and globally through a range of communications approaches.

Cross-country comparative analysis in the different settings of consortium countries will help to assess the extent to which research findings from one setting apply to other settings, and to help judge what policies and implementation approaches are likely to be effective in different contexts.

Consortium countries and members are:

LSHTM
Health Policy Unit, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
Fax: +44 20 7637 5391
http://www.crehs.lshtm.ac.uk
Director: Anne Mills
Manager Nicola Lord

Centre for Health Policy
School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, PO Box 1038, Cnr De Korte Street and Hospital Street, Bramfontein, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa
http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Centres/CHP/
Contact: Jane Goudge
Tel : +27 11 242 9904
Fax: +27 11 720 0010
jane.goudge@nhls.ac.za

KEMRI
Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, PO Box 43640, 00100 GP, Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.kemri-wellcome.org
Contact: Mike English
Tel : +254 20 271 0672
menglish@wtnairobi.mimcom.net

Indian Institute of Technology (Madras)
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, HSB350 Alumni Avenue, Chennai - 600 036, India
http://www.iitm.ac.in
Contact: VR Muraleedharan
Tel : +91-44 2257 4500 / 4506
vrm@iitm.ac.in

International Health Policy Program
3rd Floor, National Security Reform Office Building, oi Sataranasuk 6, Tiwanon Road, Nontaburi 11000, Thailand
http://www.ihpp.thaigov.net/
Contact: Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Tel : +66(0) 2590-2366-67
viroj@ihpp.thaigov.net

Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town
Faculty of Health Sciences, Anzio Road, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.heu.uct.ac.za
Contact: Michael Thiede
Tel: +27 21 406 6754
mthiede@heu.uct.ac.za

Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre
P.O Box 78373, Plot 463 Kiko Avenue, Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
http://www.ihrdc.org
Contact: Hassan Mshinda
Cell: +255 (0) 748 782 210
mshinda_hassan@yahoo.co.uk

Health Policy Research Group, Nigeria
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu-Campus, PMB 01129 Enugu, Nigeria
Contact: Obinna Onwujekwe
00 234 42 457188 / 301720
onwujekwe@yahoo.co.uk