How can global health professionals gain a better understanding of what works and what doesn’t?
While health systems can often seem like inflexible and monolithic entities that are complex and difficult to change, breaking these systems down into their constituent parts and analyzing the factors that make each part or cog in the system turn can help us create better health solutions.
While the Millennium Development Goals have focused the world’s attention and triggered global action, by the 2015 deadline many of the goals are still unlikely to be met. Moreover, opportunities to seize upon the synergies that arise across sectors and within the health system have been missed.
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About the author
Fiona Samuels
Fiona Samuels is a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute and the health dimension lead for the Development Progress project. A social anthropologist with over 15 years' experience across public health and rural development in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Fiona's interests include health and its links with poverty, exclusion, migration and social protection.
