Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 139d ago

The world’s health systems have taken a battering in recent years. Wars, migration, climate change, a pandemic and many other shocks and stressors have impacted on our health systems and the services they deliver, and sadly we can expect the situation to worsen. We need our health systems, and the remarkable people who staff them, to be resilient in the face of these challenges. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Joanna Raven will guide us through her work with health workers, taking us from her early years as a nurse and midwife, through to her current research into health systems resilience. She’ll show how we can strengthen health systems and health workforces to be responsive to challenges, focusing on the poorest and most marginalized people in the world’s most complex, polycrisis environments. About the speaker: Jo’s interest in health systems and the people who operate them began while working as a nurse and midwife in the UK, South Asia and Australia. Since then, her research has encompassed fragile, shock-prone and conflict-affected settings across Africa, Middle East and Asia, working in partnership with local people to deliver contextually appropriate, impactful research and training. Her research focuses on health systems and their workforces; strengthening district-level health management, promoting gender equity, and scaling-up complex health system interventions to improve service delivery. She has led multi-partner and multi-country research programmes, fostering research networks based on trust, innovation and impact. Jo is currently Professor of Health Systems, Co-Director of the Institute of Resilient Health Systems, and Deputy Head of Department of International Public Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).