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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 · 47m

Today at the @ISQua.org conference...

Wesam Mansour of @lstmnews.bsky.social presents...Using participatory research to address gender norms of female close-to-community healthcare providers in fragile settings: a cross-country analysis

Details here: buff.ly/3usC6L6

A suspension bridge lit up at night and the words 'ReBUILD at International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) Conference'

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 18h

Case study - how a #Lebanon Municipal Health Committee has co-developed & implemented a context-specific, evidence-based governance model which is generating a lot of external interest
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/da... @discoveringaub.bsky.social

A collage showing the people involved in the creation of the health committee alongside the words ‘Case study: Data-driven local governance for health’

ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · 19h

Great presentation from Wesam Mansour at @isqua.org yesterday, stepping in to deliver Abriti Arjyal's piece on participatory action research to address gender norms & power dynamics of ♀️ CHVs in #Nepal.

See Wesam deliver her own piece tomorrow... www.rebuildconsortium.com/rebuild-at-i...

An Egyptian woman stands behind a lectern and speaks towards a presentation screen showing the methods of her study

An Egyptian woman in a white short and purple head scarf stands speaking behind a lectern with ISQua on the front

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

New paper - Diaspora as partners: strengthening resilience of health systems & communities amidst aid volatility
Explores the critical, overlooked & underutilised value of diaspora input to LMIC health systems.
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Hands of people of different ethnicities overlap and the title of the paper

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

📰Our colleagues at Health Systems Global's Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings have just published their October 2025 newsletter.

Read it here: mailchi.mp/a1a64fd7e039...

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

Case study: how dialogue, collaboration & joint problem solving across 3 tiers of government & 10 municipalities was made possible by @herdintl.bsky.social's multi-tier health system coordination mechanism www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/mu...
@sushilbaral.bsky.social

: A female community health volunteer in a pale blue sari stands in front of a group of seated Nepali women. She is showing a book about child and maternal health and the women are listening.

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

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
@joinchic.bsky.social

A female emergency worker cares for a baby wrapped in foil with scratches on their face. They are with other emergency health workers in an orange tent. Plus the title 'Strengthening health workforce emergency preparedness for future shocks: Lessons from the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye'

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

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

A group of Sierra Leonian men and women sit around a table. They are listening to a women in a blue top speaking while writing on a sheet of flip chart paper

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

Case study...
Get an overview of the evidence ReBUILD has provided for policy and practice on the topic of health system strengthening in fragile and shock-prone settings www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/pr...
@ighd.bsky.social

Two women and a man examine and discuss photographs generated during a health systems strengthening photo elicitation exercise, alongside the words ‘Co-developing principles and practices for health systems strengthening in fragile settings, for and with NGOs operating across the humanitarian-development spectrum’

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

WEBINAR: Voices from the frontlines: Community health workers in conflict-affected communities

📅 22 October @ 11:00UTC

Explores the experiences of CHWs, the practical, emotional & ethical dimensions of frontline work, and strategies to support & protect them.

Register: buff.ly/3eQbCe3

$CHWs are essential health providers in many of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected settings. Yet, the role of CHWs in these contexts is often under-recognised and under-supported. Operating in environments of insecurity, displacement, and fractured health systems, CHWs face immense personal and professional challenges. This webinar will spotlight the lived experiences of CHWs working in conflict-affected settings.$

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

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 · 5d

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...

Screengrab of an academic poster on 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 · 6d

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...

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

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.

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@discoveringaub.bsky.social

A collage showing the people involved in the creation of the health committee alongside the words 'Blog post: From local experiment to national movement: Majdal Anjar’s model for health governance in Lebanon'

Reposted by Sierra Leone

The George Institute for Global Health @georgeinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

🎙️ 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 · 8d

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

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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 · 8d

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

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

🎞️ 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

A man wearing a suit and glasses stands in front of a screen with the words 'Health systems in limited statehood areas: stretching the boundaries of health governance - Professor Fouad Fouad MD'

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

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 · 12d

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
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...

@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 · 13d

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...

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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 · 13d

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

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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 · 14d

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 · 14d

🎞️ 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