Health policy and systems researchers (HPSRs) in low-income and middle-income
countries (LMICs) aim to influence health systems planning, costing, policy and …

This article concerns the ways in which authors from various fields conceptualise the ethical
issues arising in the conduct of research. We reviewed critically and systematically the …

Health systems are faced with a wide variety of challenges. As complex adaptive systems,
they respond differently and sometimes in unexpected ways to these challenges. We set out …

Collective sensemaking for action: researchers and decision makers working collaboratively
to strengthen health systems | The BMJ Skip to main content Intended for healthcare …

Effective management and leadership are essential for everyday health system resilience,
but actors charged with these roles are often underprepared and undersupported to perform …

The impacts of healthcare professionals (HCPs) being research participants are often
neglected. As professionals, they tend to be perceived as 'immune'to many negative effects …

This editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health
policy and systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and …

Health Systems Research—suggest that similar experiences are common in implementation
and policy research commissioned by international donors to study and evaluate large …

Health research in low-resource settings often involves individuals and populations defined
as 'vulnerable'. There is growing attention in the literature to the ethical dilemmas that …

Background Embedded approaches to implementation research (IR), whereby health
system decision-makers participate actively in the research process, are gaining traction as …