State of the Evidence for Measuring Health System Interrelationships and Estimating Impact of Health System Strengthening

Health system strengthening (HSS) interventions are most effective in supporting health system capacity, performance, and sustainability when they apply approaches that are evidence based. Consequently, USAID is committed to generating and disseminating HSS evidence to inform continuous learning and adaptation. This is guided by USAID’s Health System Strengthening Learning Agenda which articulates six questions designed to spur learning about how to improve health system equity, quality, and resource optimization.

During this webinar, we focus on USAID’s Learning Question 3: What measurement tools, approaches, and data sources, from HSS or other fields, are most helpful in understanding interrelationships and interactions, and estimating impact of HSS interventions on health system outcomes and priority health outcomes? – to discuss LHSS’s work in collating and curating existing relevant evidence through an interactive Evidence Gap Map. The webinar will also cover high-level characteristics of the evidence – including key themes and gaps – to inform targeted HSS programming and will be participatory, with a chance for participants to share resources and contribute to identifying future evidence priorities.