| Summary: | From 14-18 November 2016, 2,032 delegates from 101 countries assembled in Vancouver, Canada, for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research on the theme of ‘Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world’. This year’s Symposium consisted of five days of 53 organised sessions, 248 oral presentations, 74 satellite and skills building sessions, 385 posters, and 155 e-posters. Health Systems Global organizes a symposium every two years to bring together its members with the full range of players involved in health systems and policy research and health policy making from a national and Global level and civil society. The Fourth Symposium was co-hosted by Health Systems Global and the Canadian Society for International Health. Co-sponsors included the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, the International Development Research Centre and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. A local host committee included the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, the First Nations Health Authority, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. The overall objective of the Recipient in relation to the Project was to support LMIC participation at the fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research as well as post-symposium field building activities.
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