ReBUILD

ReBUILD for Resilience: Health System Resilience in Fragile Settings Experiencing Violence, Conflict, Pandemics and Other Shocks

Co-led and co-designed by IGHD at QMU, ReBUILD for Resilience is an of organisations from Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Sierra Leone and the UK. Between us we have expertise across all health systems pillars and in a wide range of disciplines including public health, epidemiology, social sciences, health economics, political science, research methodologies and gender.

The consortium is building on the work started during the highly successful but is focusing on a wider range of stressors in a wider range of contexts – fragile and shock-prone (FASP) settings.

The consortium has been active since 2020 and is funded by a £7.68 million grant from the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

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IGHD brings a wide range of expertise to ReBUILD for Resilience, including on health financing and economics, health system dynamic modelling, evaluation of complex interventions, participatory action research, impact evaluation, political economy and health policy analysis, and systematic reviewing. In addition to supporting a wide range of projects, IGHD currently leads four key Responsive Fund projects:

For information on the full range of ReBUILD projects, see the main

IGHD-Supported Projects
Project Publications
Podcasts
Recent Presentations

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: health seeking behaviour of migrants and internally displaced people from Myanmar along the Thailand-Myanmar border
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��What can we learn about health system resilience in fragile contexts from Afghanistan (1989-2024)?
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: a case study of the anglophone regions in Cameroon
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2024 Academic paper -��Than, K., Bertone, M. P., La, T., & Witter, S. (2024). .��International Journal for Equity in Health,��23(1), 221.

2024 - Policy paper - Witter, S., & Baker, P. (2024).��. Center for Global Development.

2024 - Academic paper - Fortnam, M., Hailey, P., Witter, S., & Balfour, N. (2024). ��SSM-Health Systems,��3, 100027.

2023 - Academic paper - Regmi, S., Bertone, M., Shrestha, P., Sapkota, S., Arjyal, A., Martineau, T., Raven, J., Witter, S., Baral, S. (2023) . Forthcoming with BMC Health Services Research.

2023 - Academic paper -��Witter, S., Thomas, S., Topp, S., Barasa, E., Chopra, M., Cobos, D., Blanchet, K., Teddy, G., Atun, R., Ager, A. (2023) : a critical review and reconceptualisation. Lancet Global Health, 11, 9, e1454-e1458.

2023 - Academic paper - Kyaw, H.K., Than, K. K., Diaconu, K., Witter, S. (2023) : a qualitative case study from Myanmar. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22:39.

2022 - Academic paper -��Gooding, K., Bertone, M., Loffreda, G., Witter, S. (2022) ? Findings from a synthesis of experience across countries facing shocks. BMC Health Services Research special edition on resilience, 22:1441.

July 2019 - Academic paper -��Witter, S., Palmer, N., Balabanova, D., Mounier-Jack, S., Martineau, T., Klicpera, A., Jensen, C., Pugliese-Garcia, M. and Gilson, L. (2019) Health system strengthening-Reflections on its meaning, assessment, and our state of knowledge International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 34(4).

February 2019 - Research Summary -��This summary document gives an overview of the projects and research themes which have made up ReBUILD’s work, with links to all of ReBUILD’s theme-specific resources lists and complete published outputs online. See this summary over on

January 2019 - Academic paper - Witter, S., Bertone, M.P., Namakula, J., Chandiwana, P., Chirwa, Y., Ssenvonio, A., and Ssengoobe, F. (2019) (How) does RBF strengthen strategic purchasing of health care? Comparing the experience of Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Global Health Research and Policy, 4(3).

January 2019 - Blog (French language) - Prof Sophie Witter, Systèmes de santé fragiles et affectés par les conflits: réduire la fracture linguistique.

December 2018 -��Briefing papers��(French language) - French versions of the��briefing papers which were produced earlier in the project. They address key questions on health systems strengthening in settings affected by conflict or crisis. Read the papers over on

November 2018 - Academic paper - Bertone, M. P., Martins, J. S., Pereira, S. M., Martineau, T., and Alonso-Garbayo, A. (2018) Understanding HRH recruitment in post-conflict settings: an analysis of central-level policies and processes in Timor-Leste (1999–2018) Human Resources for Health, 16 (66).

October 2018 - Webinar - Performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: from research to practice. 31 October 2018.

October 2018 - Academic Paper - Bertone, M. P., Wurie, H., Samai, M., Witter, S. (2018) The bumpy trajectory of performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone: agency, structure and frames shaping the policy process. Globalisation and Health, 14 (99).

September 2018 - Briefing paper - a briefing paper which summarises ReBUILD's work towards performance-based financing (PBF) in fragile and conflict-affected states. Read the paper over on

June 2017 and July 2018 -��Briefing papers��- 9 briefing papers have been produced which address key questions on health systems strengthening in settings affected by conflict or crisis. Read the papers over on

June 2018��-��Academic Paper - Bertone, Maria Paola and Jacobs, Eelco and Toonen, Jurrien and Akwataghibe, Ngozi and Witter, Sophie (2018) Performance-based financing in three humanitarian settings: principles and pragmatism. Conflict and Health, 12 (28). ISSN 1752-1505 ��

May 2018 – Academic Paper - Raven, Joanna and Wurie, Haja and Witter, Sophie (2018) Health workers’ experiences of coping with the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone’s health system: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 18 (1). p. 251. ISSN 1472-6963 ��

April 2018 – Academic Paper - Bertone, Maria Paola and Falisse, J-B and Russo, Giuliano and Witter, Sophie (2018) Context matters (but how and why?) A hypothesis-led literature review of performance based financing in fragile and conflict-affected health systems. PLOS ONE, 13 (4). e0195301. ISSN 1932-6203

February 2018 – Academic Paper - Raven, Joanna and Baral, Sushil and Wurie, Haja and Witter, Sophie and Samai, Mohamed and Paudel, Pravin and Subedi, Hom Nath and Martineau, Tim and Elsey, Helen and Theobald, Sally (2018) What adaptation to research is needed following crises: a comparative, qualitative study of the health workforce in Sierra Leone and Nepal. Health Research Policy and Systems, 16 (6). ISSN 1478-4505 ��

January 2018 – Academic Paper - Witter, Sophie and Wurie, Haja and Namakula, Justine and Mashange, Wilson and Chirwa, Yotamu and Alonso-Garbayo, Alvaro (2018) Why do people become health workers? Analysis from life histories in 4 post-conflict and post-crisis countries. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 33 (2). pp. 449-459. ISSN 0749-6753 ��

January 2018 – Academic Paper - Witter, Sophie and Brikci, Nouria and Harris, Tim and Williams, Richard and Keen, Sarah and Mujica, Ana and Jones, Alex and Murray-Zmijewski, Alex and Bale, Barbara and Leigh, Bailah and Renner, Ade (2018) The free healthcare initiative in Sierra Leone: Evaluating a health system reform, 2010-2015. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 33 (2). pp. 434-448. ISSN 0749-6753 ��

December 2017 – Academic Paper -�� Witter, Sophie and Namakula, Justine and Wurie, Haja and Chirwa, Yotamu and So, Sovanarith and Vong, Sreytouch and Ros, Bandeth and Buzuzi, Stephen and Theobald, Sally (2017) The gendered health workforce: mixed methods analysis from four fragile and post-conflict contexts. Health Policy and Planning, 32 (supp_5). v52-v62. ISSN 0268-1080 ��

November 2017 – Academic Paper -�� Witter, Sophie and Wurie, Haja and Chandiwana, Pamela and Namakula, Justine and So, Sovannarith and Alonso-Garbayo, Alvaro and Ssengooba, Freddie and Raven, Joanna (2017) How do health workers experience and cope with shocks? Learning from four fragile and conflict-affected health systems in Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Cambodia. Health Policy and Planning, 32. (Suppl_3). iii3-iii13. ISSN 0268-1080

October 2017 – Academic Paper -�� Ros, Bandeth and Lê, Gillian and McPake, Barbara and Fustukian, Suzanne (2017) The commercialization of traditional medicine in modern Cambodia. Health policy and planning, 33 (1). pp. 9-16. ISSN 1460-2237

July 2017 – Academic Paper -�� Martineau, Tim and McPake, Barbara and Theobald, Sally and Raven, Joanna and Ensor, Tim and Fustukian, Suzanne and Ssengooba, Freddie and Chirwa, Yotamu and Vong, Sreytouch and Wurie, Haja and Hooton, Nick and Witter, Sophie (2017) Leaving no one behind: lessons on rebuilding health systems in conflict- and crisis-affected states. BMJ Global Health, 2 (2). e000327. ISSN 2059-7908 ��

June 2017 – Academic Paper - Ssengooba, Freddie and Kawooya, Vincent and Namakula, Justine and Fustukian, Suzanne (2017) Application of social network analysis in the assessment of organization infrastructure for service delivery: a three district case study from post-conflict northern Uganda. Health Policy and Planning, 32 (8). pp. 1193-1202. ISSN 0268-1080 ��

June 2017 – Academic Paper - Ssengooba, Freddie and Namakula, Justine and Kawooya, Vincent and Fustukian, Suzanne (2017) Sub-national assessment of aid effectiveness: A case study of post-conflict districts in Uganda. Globalization and Health, 13 (1). ISSN 1744-8603 ��

January 2017 – Academic Paper - Witter, Sophie and Bertone, Maria Paola and Chirwa, Yotamu and Namakula, Justine and So, Sovannarith and Wurie, Haja R. (2017) Evolution of policies on human resources for health: opportunities and constraints in four post-conflict and post-crisis settings. Conflict and Health, 10 (1). ISSN 1752-1505 ��

Several of our ��Ҷ�� team members have been involved in the ReBUILD podcast series - Stories of Resilience – Local Lives and Health Systems.