What role can health policy and systems research play in supporting responses to COVID-19 that strengthen socially just health systems?

Affiliations

¹ Section Editor Health Policy Processes, Health Policy and Systems Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
² Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
³ Ghana Health Service, Ghana.
⁴ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Benin.
⁶ Health Systems Global and University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
⁷ Benguet State University, The Philippines.
⁸ University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁹ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya and Oxford University, UK.
¹⁰ Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India.
¹¹ University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
¹² Section Editor Health Policy Processes, Health Policy and Planning and Johns Hopkins University, USA.
¹³ Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
¹⁵ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
¹⁶ University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Lucy Gilson et al. Health Policy Plan. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 20;35(9):1231-1236.

doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaa112.

¹ Section Editor Health Policy Processes, Health Policy and Systems Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
² Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
³ Ghana Health Service, Ghana.
⁴ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Benin.
⁶ Health Systems Global and University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
⁷ Benguet State University, The Philippines.
⁸ University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁹ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya and Oxford University, UK.
¹⁰ Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India.
¹¹ University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
¹² Section Editor Health Policy Processes, Health Policy and Planning and Johns Hopkins University, USA.
¹³ Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
¹⁵ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
¹⁶ University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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