Recent Research and Policy Updates on Chronic Health Diseases, Quezon city, Phillipines
A dissemination forum entitled “Recent Research and Policy Updates on Chronic Health Diseases” was held on December 14, 2023 at the Crowne Plaza Galleria in Quezon city, Phillipines. The forum…
Sri Lanka Health And Ageing Conference
The Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Study (SLHAS) 1st Conference was held on the 23rd of June 2023, at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. Many guests and participants from a…
Sri Lanka Health And Ageing 1st Conference
The Institute for Health Policy will be holding a full-day conference at the Galle Face Hotel to share findings from the Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Study (SLHAS), explain research…
Care cascades: a priority indicator to monitor NCD service coverage and strengthen PHC
A care cascade is a simple model of the sequential steps of care that a patient would ideally undertake after becoming ill. An indicator that reveals the proportion of people…
r4d UNIL, Erasmus, WHO joint research-policy workshop hosted by our new center, the LCHE
The workshop was held with the objectives of gathering researchers and health system specialists working on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, to identify knowledge gaps about implementation,…
The Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behavior, and Policy (LCHE)
The opening event of the Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behaviour, and Policy (LCHE) was held at the AGORA center of the Lausane University Hospital on the 26th of October,…
Summer Institute on Ageing 2022
The 9th edition of the Summer Institute on Ageing was held in Venice, on Global Ageing: Low- and Middle-income Country Challenges from June 13-17, 2022. The VIU Scientific Coordinator for…
Summer Institute on Ageing 2022
Summer Institute on Ageing 2022,
Hypertension higher among educated, urban residents: Study
A research study conducted by our partners, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, and others, on hypertension among the aged populations in India was featured in “The Hindu”, a leading…
HEALTH SCREENING FOR EMERGING AND NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE BURDENS AMONG THE GLOBAL POOR: EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Health screenings are an important tool to improve population health. In high and middle-income nations, blood pressure (BP) screening can reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death…
Treating the causes of depression in Malawi
The study is a first study of its kind; identifying social factors that influence mental health and non-communicable diseases..
Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Survey
The Sri Lanka Health and Aging Survey implemented by the Institute for Health Policy is one of the work packages of the Inclusive Social Protection for Chronic Health Problems. The…
Public Forum on Prevention and Control of CVDs: Implication for UHC Rollout
Our team in the Philippines organized a public forum on Prevention and Control of CVDs: Implication for UHC Rollout last Wednesday, 13th of November 2019, at the Sheraton Manila Bay…
Dissemination and Donation Activities for the Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH-MAC)
In October 2018, the MLSFH team lead by Prof. Iliana Kohler (University of Pennsylvania) and Mr. James Mwera (Invest in Knowledge, IKI, Malawi) organized dissemination and donation activities in all…
Basel 2019 Conference – International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) held their conference in mid July in Basel, Switzerland with the participation of the international scientific community including some members from the Malawi, Sri Lanka…
NECHS Presentation on their Survey Results
On December 12, 2018, the UPEcon R4d Team presented the preliminary survey results in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija as part of its dissemination activities. The team presented the profile and…
Mid Term Evaluation of the r4d Project
Following the networking event on the 12th of September 2018, our r4d team attended the Mid term evaluation of our r4d project in Thun from 13-14th of Sept . During…
Bridging the r4d Teams
Our r4d teams attended a networking event on 12th of September 2018 in Bern with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The goal of this event was to…
A Bird’s Eye View on the Workshop on Population Aging And Health in Middle and Low Income countries
The workshop on Population Aging and Health in Middle and Low Income countries (LMICs) that we organized with the Population Aging Research Center and Population Studies Center at the University…
Workshop on Population Aging and Health in Middle and Low Income Countries
The Population Aging and Health in Middle and Low Income Countries Workshop took place at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House on Friday, September 7, 2018 from 8:30 AM to…
Teams let loose in Malawi – action on the field
After extensive training of the supervisors and interviewers, our teams were finally sent out to the field to interview our respondents in June for a period of about two months.…
Training interviewers in Malawi
Training of the interviewers took place in summer in Mchinji, Rumphi and Balaka. Iliana, Alberto, James and Augustine trained the interviewers extensively on the questionnaires to make sure that the…
A Testimonial from Malawi
The research team in Malawi interviewed Paul, one of the supervisors, to see how he feels about the project and its impact. What have you learned, both in terms of…
Designing a Digital Health data collection platform for a National Health & Aging Survey in Sri Lanka
The CAPI Tool Development Team at the Institute for Health Policy (IHP) developed a data collection platform for the R4D-Sri Lanka (R4D-SL) project. The R4D-SL project is conducting a cross-sectional…
Training Supervisors in Malawi
The MLSFH team (Iliana and Alberto in the pictures) from the University of Pennsylvania is back to Malawi for a new wave of data collection for the MLSFH mature adult…
Consultations with the Mayor and PhilHealth officials
The R4d team from Philippines had meetings with key officials across the Nueva Ecija all throughout 2016 and 2017. The team met with PhilHealth officials in the main office in…
Orientation of the RHU Point Persons
The UPecon r4d team conducted its first field visit to Nueva Ecija on May 18, 2017. During this visit, the team met with Dr. Josie Garcia, the assistant provincial health…
Workshop on Aging, Health, Disability and Well being
The aim of this SSPH+ workshop was to bring together researchers from different fields working in the area of aging, health, disability and well-being. The workshop took stock of ongoing…
Knowledge Transfer events in Malawi
Extensive training of project director and non-scientific fieldwork staff at Invest in Knowledge (IKI) during 2017 fieldwork on innovative data collection techniques. This was including: a) Survey data collection using…
Improving coverage for chronic conditions in aging populations
A three day research conference was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in February 2018.Representatives from all countries in the R4D project were present and it was a knowledge and progress…
Visits to RHUs in Pampanga
The UPecon R4D team visited the Pampanga province in February 2017, and met with the key staff of PhilHealth Central Luzon Office and visited RHUs in the municipalities of Angeles…
Inclusive social protection for chronic health problems 