The International Health Systems Group (IHSG) in the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, is a multidisciplinary team of scholars and experts concerned with improving health care for the poorer populations in both low and middle-income countries through research, training, and technical assistance.
The IHSG focuses on three themes:
- .Health Sector Reform
- National Health Accounts
- Making Health Care Work Better
Recent and on-going research activities at IHSG include: analysis of the role of the private sector, decentralisation, policy process, managed care tools, innovations in health care delivery, hospital autonomy, National Health Accounts methods and comparative analysis, and NHA-based modelling of finance reform.
Information products include:
- Short-term training courses for developing countries in health policy and management. These include professional and in-service training activities in the areas of health sector reform, health system performance assessment, and innovations in health care delivery.
- Newsletters – IHSG Review and DDM Issue Briefs – and IHSG publications.
WWW site, providing: information on research activities; details of upcoming short courses; overviews of technical assistance projects; full text of IHSF newsletters; and full text of IHSG publications.