The 6th edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6) was held between June 27th and 29th, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. ICPP6 had 1180 registered participants coming from 78 different countries. It is one of the world’s largest international events on public policy: no less than 1522 papers related to various public policies we...

If you work in global health, Canada is probably the place to be at the moment. As a new resident of Canada, working towards a PhD in global health, the new academic year has already ushered in events of significance to the health and development sector. Canadian Prime Minister’s (Justin for the friends)  efforts to (re-)establish Canada’s ...

    “We don’t want anything. We don’t need a single rupee or tea but only do something on water and give us drinking water”. – Hiren(a pseudonym), male, village health, sanitation and nutrition committee members, rural northern India   While conducting an implementation research study in a marginalized area of northern India, on the impleme...

The Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) community in India and beyond is eagerly awaiting the roll out of the inaugural KEYSTONE course.  KEYSTONE is a nationwide HPSR capacity building initiative, coordinated and convened by Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) as a Nodal Institute of the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Re...

Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) is an initiative organized by a consortium of five Northern and Southern based universities with a keen interest in global health and health systems research, and in training the next generation of health systems researchers. This year’s EV4GH venture (2014) – the fourth already – was hosted by the...