By Auwal Muhammad
AHBN Communication Officer
On the margin of the 5th Global Symposium on Health System Research taken place at Liverpool, United Kingdom, the COPASAH has launched its website for the COPASAH Global Symposium with a theme ‘Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health’ to take place from October 15-18, 2019 in New Delhi. Professor Abhijit Das the Global Convener of COPASAH and head of the Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), India while launching the website highlighted that it will be a ‘practitioner-centred-symposium’ and to focus on sharing and learning from the practice by practitioners of diverse cultural, linguistic, geo-political and national contexts, primarily from the global south. The Programme format of the Symposium aims to facilitate interaction, between practitioners in health; and policy makers, academics, researchers, and other activists on common issues of concern.
Some of the formats to stimulate interactions include:
- Daily plenaries on key intersectional themes
- Self-organized Satellite sessions on accountability and social action in health
- Thematic curated sessions
- Participant proposed sessions
- ‘Learning cohorts’ and Learning synthesis groups to facilitate intersectional synthesis and thematic learning
- Film shows/ AV demonstrations followed by discussions
- Skill exchange and learning workshops
- Curated poster presentation- gallery walk with discussion
- Cultural expressions and engagements
Visit the symposium site for more details http://www.copasahglobalsymposium2019.net/organizers.html AND #COPGS2019
About COPASAH
Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) is currently hosted by Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), New Delhi. It started in 2011 by a group of practitioners, who had been using Social Accountability approaches to strengthen the linkage between communities and the health system to provide quality and accountable care. It is essentially a learning network with a focus on marginalized communities where practitioners learn from each other and by distilling lessons from practice and a bottom up process. For more details see (www.copasah.net)
