Thank you for your interest in contributing to an action brief for the WHO COVID-19 Health Services Learning Hub (HLH). Please find below an overview of the HLH and further information on how to submit your action brief. If you have further questions, please contact us at hlh@who.int.
Overview
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have requested urgent support from WHO to maintain their health services whilst mounting their pandemic response.
The WHO COVID19: Health Services Learning Hub is a dynamic new web-based platform that will allow the critical sharing of experiences and learning from innovative practices to inform the collective global response in real time. This will include action briefs on promising examples of innovation to maintain essential health services, synthesis briefs on key emerging learning needs, dynamic learning labs to solve common challenges and a ‘one stop shop’ for up to date information from WHO and partners.
The learning hub will be based on WHO’s Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak, which provides a set of targeted actions countries should take at national, regional, and local levels to reorganize and maintain access to essential quality health services for all.
The immediate focus of the learning hub will be on maintaining essential health services during the outbreak. In the medium to longer term the hub will focus on health service recovery in the post-acute phase of the pandemic and health services strengthening in the post-pandemic phase.
Action Briefs
Action Briefs are a key component of the HLH, and capture innovative approaches being taken to respond to the impact of COVID-19 on essential health services. This can include a range of activities to mitigate against the disruption on health services from pandemic. The Action Briefs may be used as a catalyst to generate discussion between participants in the learning labs and/or contribute to the development of learning briefs on broader themes.
Guidance Notes
Word limit: 500 words
Style: Please focus on action-oriented interventions and practical solutions (including particularly innovative approaches), rather than just outlining policy objectives. As well as highlighting areas of good practice, we encourage authors to be open and honest with any challenges faced so as to inform knowledge sharing and learning. Please ensure the Action Brief is succinct, including using bullet points as needed.
Use: Key themes from the Action Briefs may be used to form a synthesis ‘Learning Brief’ of important learning lessons for other contexts. The Action Briefs may also be used to inform topics of discussion for the ‘Learning Labs’ (communities of practice). WHO may work with select authors to publish individual Action Briefs to the HLH portal.
Documentation: Please click here to access the WHO Operational Guidance on Maintaining Essential Health Services when completing the action brief.
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