Health Systems Strengthening (FutureLearn)

You’ll critique major health system frameworks, analyse health system inequities, and interrogate the evidence for HSS approaches. You’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to develop HSS interventions across areas such as health policy, health financing, human resources, supply chain management, quality of care and private sector engagement. This course was developed by the Nossal Institute and UNICEF to equip UNICEF staff to work in HSS; now it’s open to you.
What topics will you cover?

- Health system structures, functions and components, and how they interact.

- How to use evidence, and analysis of inequity, to drive interventions to strengthen health systems.

- Strengthening health systems through action in areas such as health policy, financing, human resources, supply chain management, quality of care and private sector engagement.

- Using complex systems thinking to address health system problems.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Develop knowledge and skills in health systems strengthening (HSS), to improve outcomes for disadvantaged women and children.

- Apply complex systems thinking in the design and implementation of HSS interventions

- Evaluate HSS interventions for their evidence base, sustainability and capacity to support universal health coverage.