Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit Attends Health Systems Global

On November 14-18, 2016, Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) faculty attended the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver, Canada. The theme of the five-day symposium was "Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world." 

The Department of International Health was involved in over 30 sessions, including plenary, organized, oral, skills-building, satellite, poster and e-poster sessions. JH-IIRU director, Dr. Adnan Hyder, moderated a thematic working group session titled, “The ethics of health systems research priority-setting” and participated in a panel session titled, “Blurring the lines: ethical considerations when research is embedded in policy and practice.” 

JH-IIRU faculty members were also involved in several sessions. Dr. Kate Allen, JH-IIRU Coordinator for Middle East, presented a poster titled, “Do researchers uphold principles of ethics in health systems research? - Empirical evidence from an online survey” and Dr. Olakunle Alonge, JH-IIRU Coordinator for Child Injuries, participated in a satellite session titled, “A massive open online course (MOOC) on implementation research.” 

During the Health Systems Global annual general meeting, Dr. Adnan Hyder was formally introduced as a new member of the Health Systems Global Board.

The Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research will be held in Liverpool in 2018.

More information on the Symposium can be found here.