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HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POLICY DEPARTMENT
Health System in Pakistan presents a complex picture of a continuous struggle to improve health status of the people served, amidst poor governance, inefficient management, low budget and unjustified resource allocations. Therefore, health care system has not been able to perform to its maximum capacity, mainly because of an imbalance of human resource, facilities and finances between the urban and rural parts of the country. Yet, indicators have improved gradually but slowly relative to the targets of the millennium development goals.
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Ref: Systems thinking. Alliance for Health Systems and Policy Research and World Health Organization 2010.
Since Health Services Academy has the mandate of teaching/training, research and service in health systems, Health Systems and Policy Department aims to contribute in improving the health systems management by grooming leadership in health care within the country. The department derives its philosophy of work from the building blocks of health systems.
Goal
The department envisages contributing to health systems strengthening in the country by focusing on all the building blocks of the health systems.
Specific objectives (for next 3-5 years):
Capacity Building: Improve the quality, standards and range of educational and training programs in public health with a focus on health systems and policy.
Instituting Research: Explore and establish collaborations local, national and international public health institutions for advocating meaningful health systems and policy research, facilitating evidence based decision making in the country.
Health Systems Development: Establish and support community based sustainable health services delivery models, thus strengthening the primary health care.
Centre of Excellence: Develop the department into a centre of excellence for health systems research, teaching, training and policy advice.
Faculty
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| Dr. Babar Tasneem Shaikh | Dr. Shahzad Ali Khan | Dr. Ejaz Ahmad Khan | Katrina Aminah | Gulrukh Mehboob | Dr. Ramesh Kumar | Dr. Arsalan Mazhar |
Head of Dept., Associate Professor |
Assistant Professor |
Assistant Professor |
Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor | Instructor |
Instructor |
Health Systems And Policy Department - Roles And Responsibility in HSA
Within the paradigm of Health systems development and strengthening, Evidence based Health Policy and advocacy for credible Health Systems Research, the department will assert its niche through
- Teaching
- Research
- Policy Advice
- Capacity building
- Service
- Advocacy
- Networking
- Consultancy
Graduate Degree Program |
Short Courses |
Health Systems Management |
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Hospital Administration |
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Modern Public Health Management |
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Leadership in Public health |
Courses Taught at Graduate level
- Health Systems Analysis
- Health Systems Management
- Health Policy & Planning
- District Health Planning
- Communicable & Non-Communicable Disease Control
- Hospital Management
- Environmental Health
- Health Management Information System
- Advanced Health Systems Research
- Public Health Ethics
- Public Health Leadership and Systems Thinking
- Performance and Quality Management in Hospitals
- Health Sector reforms
- Comparative Health Systems and Policy Analysis
- Strategic planning in health sector of developing countries
- Applications in Monitoring & Evaluation
- Applied Nutrition in Public Health
- International Health
Recent Assignments
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Sponsor/collaborator |
Hospital Waste Management trainings for Health Care Workers in 10 districts of KPK, Pakistan |
WHO Pakistan |
Leadership and Managerial Decision Making Skills training |
Institute of Public Health Lahore and WHO |
Strengthening Primary Health Care Training |
Health Services Academy & WHO |
Health System for Better Health Outcomes Training |
Health Services Academy & WHO |
Capacity Building for Peoples Primary Health Care Initiative |
USAID |
Leadership & Effective Communication Skills Development |
UNFPA |
Managerial Decision Making skills |
UNFPA |
Health Promotion |
WHO |
Safe drinking water and Sanitation |
Prime Minister’s Program for Prevention & Control of Hepatitis |
Capacity-Building Workshop for Social Organizer of PPHI |
USAID |
Course on Health Promotion Planning & Evaluation |
WHO |