Core documents

Despite the challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was one of the most productive years ever for the Alliance for Health Policy and...

2020 was a year like no other. During the last year, the Alliance not only re-programmed some of its work to support the response to COVID-19, it also...

In 2019, the Alliance supported 16 ongoing projects, representing 111 grants across 42 countries. Find out more about these projects and how they are supporting...

Organized around our over-arching objectives, our 2018 Annual Report profiles how we bring people together, how we empower leaders, how we generate knowledge...

2017 marked the 20th anniversary since the Alliance’s inception. This annual report provides an overview of its achievements in this milestone year.

Looking back at 2016, it was a year of strengthening and forging stronger partnerships to operationalise the Alliance’s Strategic Plan 2016-2020....

Throughout 2015 the Alliance continued to build momentum and community. This year was the end of an administrative period (the second half of a two- year...

For the Alliance, 2014 was a year of reflection and learning, innovation and leadership in developing the field of health policy and systems research....

The central role of capacity strengthening, threading through the heart of Alliance activities and achievements, is the theme of this year’s report....

In 2012, the Alliance seized and created many special moments and opportunities for the health policy and systems research (HPSR) community to come together. The...

The reasons for the Alliance HPSR to build and strengthen partnerships – within the World Health Organization (WHO), with other Geneva-based organizations...

Since the Alliance’s inception, one of its primary objectives has been to promote the dissemination and use of health policy and systems knowledge...

Strengthening health systems has become a guiding principle for many in the global health community. While the past few years have seen various developing countries...

During 2008 we have seen the rising importance of health systems research reflected in multiple ways: for example, the Task Force on Global Action for...

As Dr Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO has said, global health “has never before received such attention or enjoyed such wealth.” At...

Policy-makers bear the responsibility of making a wide range of decisions on matters that could be life or death. This story of change chronicles how two...

Cyclone Idai made local and international headlines in March 2019 when it made landfall in Mozambique. The storm itself razed buildings, but the subsequent...

In the early 1990s, an experiment in Navrongo in northern Ghana looking at how best to structure primary care in rural areas of the country helped to enshrine...