MSPGH a strategic partner for APO's Health Systems and Policies

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health academics have been accepted as strategic partners for WHO’s Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (APO).

The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (the APO) is a collaborative partnership of interested governments, international agencies, foundations, and researchers that promotes evidence-informed health system policy regionally and in all countries in the Asia Pacific region.

The following teams from Nossal Institute for Global Health and Centre for Health Policy were successful:

• Professor Barbara McPake, Dr Tiara Marthias, and Clare Strachan will join the international consortia headed by colleagues at University of Hong Kong, including Centre for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives and SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institutes. APO Focus theme:  Primary Health Care and Universal Health Coverage.
• Professor Barbara McPake and Dr Tiara Marthias will join the consortia headed by colleagues Gadjah Mada University and including University of New South Wales; Ateneo de Zamboanga University; University Malaysia Sabah; and Solomon Islands National University. APO Focus theme: Human Resources for Health.
• Professor Sumit Kane and Professor Ajay Mahal will join the consortia headed by colleagues at Fudan University and includes National University of Singapore, Mahidol University, Thailand, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, National Social Protection Council. APO Focus theme:  Inequities in Health.
• Associate Professor Angus Campbell, Clare Strachan, and Dr Tiara Marthias will join the consortia headed by colleagues at Duke-NUS Global Health Institutes and includes Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program Foundation; Universitas Gadjah Mada Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing; University of the Philippines Manila; and Public Health Foundation of India. APO Focus theme:  Climate Change and Pandemics.
• Associate Professor Natalie Carvalho and PhD student Marie-Anne Boujaoude; and Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity’s Prof Jodie McVernon, are heading a consortium with Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program Foundation (HITAP), Keio University, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Tianjin University and National University of Singapore. APO Focus theme:  Inequities in Health