This blog is closed to new posts due to inactivity. The post remains here as part of the network’s archive of useful research information. We hope you'll join the conversation by posting to an open topic or starting a new one.
 
The first-ever World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research has been launched recently by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. 
 
“This World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) reflects the importance of monitoring and measuring developments in the field. It provides evidence that allows national policy-makers and funders to see how their investments contribute to the generation and use of policy-relevant knowledge,” says, Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO Assistant Director-General, for Health Systems and Innovation.
 
Historically, biomedical and clinical research dominated the health arena. There was little focus on systems and policy research. Over the past 20 years, more stakeholders have recognized the potential of this research to enhance the performance of health systems. From 1990 to 2015, there has been a five-fold surge in the number of HPSR publications produced annually. Increasingly, these are being generated by authors in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs).
 
The report describes the evolution of the field and provides figures on the number of publications produced, funding trends and institutional capacity in LMICs to conduct HPSR. It provides insight into how the multidisciplinary and systems approach used in HPSR can help countries advance the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda.
 
For more information and to access the report, please click here