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ReBUILD for Resilience

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An international research consortium that examines health system resilience in fragile settings experiencing violence, conflict, pandemics and other shocks, including Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal and Sierra Leone. www.rebuildconsortium.com UK aid funded .. more

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Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is 73,252 km2 (28,283 sq mi). It has a tropical climate and environments ranging from savannas to rainforests. As of the 2023 census, Sierra Leone has a population of 8,460,512. Freetown is its capital and largest city. .. more

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 4h

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we reaffirm that mental health must be at the heart of humanitarian response & recovery. Supporting the wellbeing of communities & health workers is key to rebuilding resilient systems.

Some of our work on this topic. buff.ly/yKa41W0

A man in yellow PPE crouches to speak to an older man with a stick wearing a red and white kufiya, sitting outside a stone building. There's a younger man holding a small child standing near by. Also, the words 'Provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers and community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria: a mixed-methods study'

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 23h

In 'Provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers & community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria', Ibrahim Bou Orm et al explore the provision of MHPSS services & assess the experiences of beneficiaries

www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/me...

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 1d

If you are at the @ISQua.org conference in Sao Paulo from 13 October be sure to attend ReBUILD's session... Using participatory research to address #gender norms of female close-to-community healthcare providers in fragile settings

Details here: www.rebuildconsortium.com/rebuild-at-i...

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 1d

Latest article...

From local experiment to national movement: Majdal Anjar’s model for health governance in Lebanon

Read how ReBUILD success supporting a Lebanese municipality is being received, from MoH to other towns - from model to movement.

buff.ly/oOshDRq

@discoveringaub.bsky.social

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Reposted by Sierra Leone

The George Institute for Global Health @georgeinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

How can we turn global promises on NCDs and mental health into real change? 🌏

Join health leaders, including our CEO Anushka Patel, for a webinar on the UN High-Level Meeting outcomes and how to turn global goals into local action for healthier futures.

📅 Weds 15 Oct, 1:00 PM AEDT
➡️ bit.ly/4o208gW

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 2d

How do you operationalise health justice?

Read how ReBUILD has sought to use it as a guiding principle and embedded practice in Myanmar, Nepal, Lebanon and Sierra Leone in this new paper.

www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/he...

@burnetinstitute.bsky.social

A rusty sign with the words ‘armed conflict is a health risk’ and the title of the paper

Reposted by Sierra Leone

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 2d

The @who.int estimates up to $10 billion will be needed to rebuild Gaza’s health system. But the real cost may be in failed reconciliation if accountability, narratives and justice are ignored.

INSIDE VIEW: Elaine Ruth Fletcher

📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

If And When The Guns Fall Silent - Gaza Faces Overwhelming Rehabilitation Task - Health Policy Watch

Beyond the rehabilitation of bodies, mind and critical Gaza health, housing, water and sanitation infrastructure, both Israelis and Palestinians need to

healthpolicy-watch.news

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 2d

🎙️ Let's talk health finance, gender, resilience, the health workforce, migration and non-state actors.

Listen to our podcast series - Stories of Resilience: Local Lives and Health Systems
▶️https://www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/podcast-series/

Advert for the podcast series showing a girl skipping among other children in a refugee camp

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 3d

If we're to be ready for the next pandemic, we need to learn lessons from the last one

Paper from Institute for Development - The effectiveness of the Sierra Leone health sector’s response to COVID-19 - seeks to do just that buff.ly/wrrpbpG

@ighd.bsky.social

In Sierra Leone a man in a shirt and tie is being vaccinated by a woman. Both are wearing masks and are surrounded by cool boxes. Image: WHO/Saffea Gborie

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 3d

New brief - Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye buff.ly/BGwM5OU

More on the study - Exploring health workforce preparedness for shocks in Türkiye - here: buff.ly/giUZ6Np

@lstmnews.bsky.social

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 4d

Current study - Empowering refugee close-to-community healthcare providers through advocacy networks

We're exploring how grassroots advocacy in #Lebanon empowers the #Syrian women to improve their rights & working conditions.

#gender @discoveringaub.bsky.social

Details here... buff.ly/kUzx9XU

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 5d

There's an urgent conversation taking place on the role of the global health initiatives.

In this paper, Sophie Witter et al examine the political economy of reforms, drawing from work which contributed to the #LusakaAgenda

www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/un...

@ighd.bsky.social

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 6d

Current study: Situation analysis of health services in the earthquake-affected areas of Mandalay and Sagaing, Myanmar
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social Myanmar assess the health care response to the earthquakes in #Myanmar, focusing on camp settings.

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 6d

🎞️ Conflicts create regions of limited statehood, where govs struggle to provide essential services.
What does that mean for the millions left without care?
Prof Fouad Fouad explores the issue in this video

▶️https://buff.ly/peTS2Hb

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 7d

Recent article: Mind the Gap: Reflections on the future of data-driven Community Health Worker programmes

@carlnkwain.bsky.social reports from a @joinchic.bsky.social roundtable on developing a best-practice guide for CHW prog funders

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@ighd.bsky.social

Two Somali women and a small boy stand outside a basic shelter while white goats graze in the scrub behind. The women are wearing yellow tabards, and one is holding the child's face and dropping medicine into his mouth. There's a cool box on the floor near them. © WHO

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 7d

Poster from @herdintl.bsky.social : Factors associated with a resilient maternal health system: Evidence from Kapilvastu, Nepal

Based on a study in the district with the second highest maternal mortality rate in Nepal
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@shophika.bsky.social

Academic poster with a photo of Nepali women in brightly coloured saris and the title 'Factors associated with a resilient maternal health system: Evidence from Kapilvastu, Nepal'

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 8d

ReBUILD team members Sophie Witter & @sushilbaral.bsky.social recently took part in a WHO SEARO webinar - 'Politics & Health: Navigating the Political Economy of Health Financing Reforms'. Watch the webinar here: www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/we...

@herdintl.bsky.social @ighd.bsky.social

Title screen from 'Political economy analysis of health financing reforms in times of crisis – three case studies from South east Asia by Professor Sophie Witter'

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 8d

Current study from the @herdintl.bsky.social team...
Strengthen coordination mechanisms & improve health system resilience across local governments in Kapilvastu, Nepal
Co-creating intensive interventions at our learning site, including maternal health care uptake

buff.ly/Flf2CSR

A young Nepali man draws out a map on large piece of orange paper on the floor while surrounded by onlooking people wrapped up in hats, coats and shawls

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 9d

New brief - Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye

buff.ly/BGwM5OU

More on the study - Exploring health workforce preparedness for shocks in Türkiye - here: buff.ly/giUZ6Np

@paulmarsden.bsky.social

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 10d

🎞️ Introduction to political economy analysis
Maria Bertone explores what it is, how it can be helpful in #healthsystems research, and how you do it
Find out here...
▶️https://www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/video-introduction-political-economy-analysis/

@ighd.bsky.social

Introduction to political economy analysis - a new video - with a slide from the presentation

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 10d

How do you operationalise health justice?
Read how ReBUILD has sought to use it as a guiding principle and embedded practice in Myanmar, Nepal, Lebanon and Sierra Leone in this new paper.
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/he...

@herdintl.bsky.social

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 10d

TOMORROW... Would you like to learn about the practicalities of working in film for health systems research?

If you are at the CREATE 2025 conference in South Africa you can - join our workshop

Details... www.rebuildconsortium.com/rebuild-at-c...

@shahreenc.bsky.social

Four Nepalese women examining a camera on a tripod and the words 'Workshop - Artistic methods to support just health systems: Exploring the pros and cons of film - Wednesday 1 October'

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 11d

New case study...
Strengthening community health systems for improved health service utilization at the local level in Nepal
Explores how @herdintl.bsky.social advocated & supported municipal & ward-level actors to plan & deliver strengthening activities.
buff.ly/AjJoT1d

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 12d

Sophie Witter recently presented 'Strengthening health financing in complex humanitarian contexts: analysis from Northwest Syria and its implications for other disrupted contexts'.
If you missed her you'll find the slides here... www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/he...

@ighd.bsky.social

A masked woman and a boy walk round a destroyed building and the words 'post crisis 2' with a list of post-conflict problems for Syria's health system

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 13d

Latest article... From local experiment to national movement: Majdal Anjar’s model for health governance in Lebanon

Read how ReBUILD success supporting a Lebanese municipality is being received, from MoH to other towns - from model to movement.

buff.ly/oOshDRq

@discoveringaub.bsky.social

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 14d

Would you like to learn about the practicalities of working in film for health systems research?

If you are at the CREATE 2025 conference in South Africa next week you can - join our workshop

Details... www.rebuildconsortium.com/rebuild-at-c...

@shahreenc.bsky.social @discoveringaub.bsky.social

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 14d

New case study... The inclusion of people with disabilities in health system building at community level
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social #Myanmar examines the contextual challenges & opportunities for promoting disability-inclusive community-based health systems buff.ly/OxG3uGc

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 14d

Did you miss our recent webinar with @cpintl.org - Gender transformative programming: Community health workers as agents of social change?

If so, watch it here: buff.ly/qzR2YuA

@chwcentral.bsky.social
@joinchic.bsky.social

Title of the webinar plus a photo of 3 female community health volunteers in Nepal - all wearing blue and red saris

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 15d

The 1st Global Migrants Health Summit takes place in New York from tomorrow and the ReBUILD team from @herdintl.bsky.social is presenting 'Role of diaspora in supporting health system resilience in Nepal'.
Check out the agenda here and watch via Zoom
www.phomir.net/program-sche...

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 15d

How can communities and health systems be effectively connected in #SierraLeone?
Read how the ReBUILD team used trust, inclusion and local stakeholder groups in this case study
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/tr...

@ighd.bsky.social

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