Today we sent out a press release in both English and Nepali prior to a face-to-face media event in Hotel Yak and Yeti, Kathmandu. This media coverage highlights our interdisciplinary study ‘The impact of federalisation on Nepal’s health system: a longitudinal analysis’. We are hosting a National Forum on post-Federalisation Health System Strengthening tomorrow and the day after with stakeholders involved of all three (local, provincial and central) levels of government in Nepal.
This study started just before COVID-19 in 2020 and this is the final year. The research team includes researchers from Nepal, namely MMIHS (Manmohan Memorial Institute of Sciences) in Kathmandu, and PHASE Nepal (Bhaktapur), the University of Sheffield, Bournemouth University, and the University of Huddersfield (the three original UK co-applicants), and researchers now based at the University of Greenwich, the University of Essex and Canterbury Christ Church University. This exciting research is funded by the Health System Research Initiative, a UK collaboration between three funders: the MRC (Medical research Council), the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and the Welcome Trust.
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMWH (Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health)
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