Health Systems Collaborative Projects
A systems approach to Quality & Safety: linking Investigation and Intervention Design – QI-ID Course.
This 4-day, in-person short course explores the 'diagnosis' of health care delivery challenges, explains interventions as change processes, and supports participants to develop practical strategies for intervention and evaluation as they explore their Theory of Change.
The AFRHiCARE Partnership
Africa's healthcare landscape is undergoing rapid transformation. The AFRHiCARE (Africa's First Referral Hospitals: innovation and Care) partnership aims to provide thought leadership on first referral hospitals (FRH) by generating new knowledge and promoting innovation on their roles and functions, their health workforce development, technology integration and climate adaptation, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
GELLE Framework
Welcome to the GELLE Framework! Have you ever wondered how positive culture in your workplace could be supported? The GELLE Framework will help you to understand how people influence one another and the ripple effects on the wider workplace culture.
A Novel Extreme Weather Risk Insurance System for Kenya (NEWRISK)
In both high- and low-income countries, health systems need to be ready for extreme weather. While sustainability efforts are underway, health systems must cope with events like floods and droughts, which increase healthcare demand and disrupt services. The NEWRISK project in Kenya addresses these challenges, emphasising resilience and insurance strategies to maintain healthcare access during crises, amid climate change's broad impacts on health systems.
Roles and Adoption of Medical Associate Professionals (ROADMAP) - how might Physician Associates help (or not) address the workforce crisis in the NHS?
Physician Associates (PAs) are graduates who have undertaken postgraduate training and are working under the supervision of a doctor to perform a number of day-to-day healthcare tasks. These include taking medical histories, performing physical examinations, and performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This research aims at generating the knowledge and approaches that will improve national and local NHS workforce planning for Physician Associates (PAs).
Rethinking Organisational Opportunities to Tackle Distress (ROOTS)
The ROOTS programme of work, funded by the NIHR, aims to better understand the nature, drivers and consequences of moral distress faced by frontline staff, and to identify organisational responsibilities and strategies to minimise and manage distress. The main goals of this research are to create evidence-based guidelines that promote fairer international research practices, foster a more inclusive and innovative research culture, and strengthen research system equity, quality and resilience.
REAL2: Participatory Research Realist Review
A new realist review, REAL2, aims to systematically explore the literature and practice of participatory research to better understand the potential, and limits, of greater stakeholder involvement in research processes.
SWIRL: Supporting Workforce and social Integration, Retention and career deveLopment of internationally recruited doctors and nurses in the UK
The UK’s health and care services rely heavily on internationally recruited staff, with one in five NHS and social care workers now trained overseas. But recruitment alone is not enough. Many international doctors and nurses face challenges such as discrimination, limited career development, housing difficulties, and a lack of community or organisational support—factors that can affect their ability to stay in the UK long-term. SWIRL is a research programme that aims to understand these experiences and develop practical, evidence-based strategies to help internationally recruited staff settle, integrate, and build sustainable careers in the UK health and care sector.
Learning to Harness Innovation in Global Health for Quality Care (HIGH-Q)
The HIGHQ project has a specific focus on neonatal care in low and middle-income countries’ hospitals and explores the inter-relationships between technology adoption, workforce deficits and quality of care.
CIN - Clinical Information Network
The Clinical Information Network is a partnership between Oxford, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, County Hospitals and the Kenya Paediatric Association. It works to promote the generation and use of high-quality routine information on hospital admissions to paediatric and neonatal wards, and most recently adult medical wards, in the form of a low-cost ‘learning health system’. Over a period of 10 years high-quality data on more than 320,000 paediatric, 220,000 neonatal and 120,000 adult medical admissions have been captured.
The Decolonisation and Global Health Research Exchange Network
We are a multidisciplinary network of academics, practitioners, and activists with a shared interest in unpacking and analysing decolonisation debates in global health research. Our overall interest is in identifying our responsibilities as individuals and institutions for positive transformation in the conduct of health research conducted in Africa. We hope to contribute to a research and action agenda that supports ethical practice in the region.
LIFE
The Life-saving Instruction for Emergencies (LIFE) is a 3D simulation training app for smartphones that teaches healthcare workers how to manage medical emergencies. LIFE is a scenario-based mobile and virtual reality (VR) gaming platform that teaches healthcare workers to identify and manage medical emergencies using game-like training techniques to reinforce the key steps that need to be performed in order to save lives.
The Global Health Bioethics Network
The Global Health Bioethics Network is a collaborative partnership with teams in Africa, Southeast Asia and Oxford. We aim to promote and support ethical reflection, build capacity and facilitate ethics research
SONIC
A Systems Strategy to Optimise Inpatient Neonatal Care (PI Mike English). Progress has been made in reducing child mortality in Kenya but this has been limited by still high levels of neonatal mortality. Reducing neonatal mortality will in part require major improvements in the quality of care provided to sick newborns in hospitals. SONIC is a 3 phase, multi-year that is studying a clinical network model as an intervention strategy to improve service delivery in 12 Kenyan hospitals.
HSDN
Health Services that Deliver for Newborns (HSDN) is a multidisciplinary project engaging policy-makers and practitioners in Kenya. Newborn deaths account for 40% of all deaths among children under 5 in Kenya. This high neonatal mortality is a major reason why Kenya is not succeeding in its battle to reduce child deaths. Sick or vulnerable newborns often require inpatient care in referral facilities from skilled workers with access to basic technologies. Shortage of skilled health workers often means these services are inadequately delivered, potentially delaying or preventing recovery.