Community ownership and participation: Studying health systems governance in Moyamba, Sierra Leone
Mar 21, 2024
Halimatu Kamara of Institute for Development team in Sierra Leone reflects on a visit to the team’s learning site in Moyamba District where she saw community ownership and collaboratively address community health issues.
Webinar: The interplay of gender and other vulnerabilities: A participatory action research with informal Syrian close-to-community health care providers in Lebanon
Jan 23, 2024
Details of a webinar on ‘The interplay of gender and other vulnerabilities: A participatory action research with informal Syrian close-to-community health care providers in Lebanon’ hosted by American University of Beirut
Refugee health in Lebanon: a new facade on old practices
Dec 7, 2023
Rouham Yamout discusses refugee health in Lebanon, critiquing its provision from the arrival of Syrian refugees in 2011 to today’s informal parallel sector
Why the focus on health system resilience? Isn’t it the shocks we should be addressing?
Dec 7, 2023
Dr Karin Diaconu of Queen Margaret University reflects on the study of health system resilience and questions its purpose when the health system itself and the population it serves are under existential threat.
Victims of a broken system: a Syrian refugee family’s struggle for healthcare in Lebanon
Dec 5, 2023
The plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon who require healthcare is explored in this edit of a 2016 article
A Tale of Two Clinics
Dec 5, 2023
Blog post on the contrasting formal and informal clinics available in Beqaa, Lebanon and how they serve the local communities
Interview with a member of Beqaa’s Working Women group
Nov 14, 2023
Interview with a member of the Working Women group in Beqaa, Lebanon, talking about her life, her hopes for the future, and plans to spread Working Women to other towns and villages in the area
Women, mothers, wives, refugees, health workers, activists: the roles of close-to-community health workers in Lebanon
Nov 8, 2023
Life is difficult for female Syrian close-to-community healthcare workers in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon, so to help alleviate their double burden they have set up Working Women.
Navigating health system resilience research, some emerging themes from our annual meeting
Oct 31, 2023
Blog post reflecting on ReBUILD’s annual meeting, the themes that arose in the teams’ presentations, and how they are playing out in our work in multiple contexts.
Analysing mental health and psychosocial support service provision in conflict-affected Northwest Syria: lessons for donors
Oct 12, 2023
Blog post in which Dr Ibrahim Bou-Orm talks about the findings of his team’s study into mental health and psychosocial support services in Northwest Syria