From Data to Action: Shaping People-Centered Health Systems – Learning from the People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance

On February 29, 2024, MSH hosted an engaging discussion, From Data to Action: Shaping People-Centered Health Systems – Learning from the People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance, during which we explored critical insights and perspectives on health system accountability and shared best practices for building more effective and people-centered health systems.

Global health experts joined us to unpack the findings of The Lancet Global Health’s Series on the People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance. Published last December, the Series explores health system accountability and aims to amplify the voices of communities to inform actions for more effective and people-centered health systems globally. 

Agenda Highlights: 

• Unpacking The Lancet Global Health’s Series on the People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance 
• Examining the quality of and confidence in health systems, and the linkages to universal health coverage and primary health care 
• Exploring social participation as key to people-centered health systems 

At MSH, we work to strengthen health systems, with a focus on ensuring that health systems are centered around people and designed according to their needs. We partner with communities and civil society to help shape the health systems that serve them through social participation processes and advocacy, with a specific focus on fulfilling the promise of health for all through universal health coverage and supporting people-centered primary health care. Our featured speakers discussed health system accountability across countries and subnational regions, including specific experiences in Argentina and Kenya, and helped connect the Series’ findings to work with communities and end users of health systems to shape the systems that serve them.

Featured speakers:

• Dr. Todd Lewis, Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the People’s Voice Survey workstream lead for the QuEST Network
• Carmen Ryan, Coordinator, Public Advocacy Strategies, Fundación Huésped, Argentina, and Core Committee Member, SPHERE (Social Participation for Health Engagement, Research, and Empowerment)
• Rosemary Mburu, Executive Director, WACI Health, Kenya. WACI Health co-hosts the Secretariat for the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism for UHC2030 together with MSH

Moderated by:

• Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Senior Technical Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy, and Engagement and Integrated Health Care at MSH

With remarks from:

• Marian W. Wentworth, President and CEO, MSH
• Dr. Dan Schwarz, Vice President, Global Health Systems Innovation, MSH