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CEPSA Newsletter (December 2025)

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CEPSA Newsletter (December 2025)

Welcome to CEPSA’s Community of Practice (CoP)! The CoP is a network of excellence between and by PV experts in Africa.

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The Alliance Lift: Professor Asha George in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh MohamedThe Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed, host of the Alliance Lift, speaks with Professor Asha George, the South African Research Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change at the University of the Western Cape. A globally recognized qualitative researcher, Professor George examines the interface between communities, health workers and health systems through lenses of governance, gender and human rights. She also serves as the Alliance’s 2025 Thinker in Residence, supporting reflection on how the field of health policy and systems research can engage more intentionally with gender equality.Idil spoke with Asha about how early work shaped by global commitments on women’s rights influenced her approach to health systems, what she learned from working within her own health system in India and why she believes health workers’ lived realities must be more central to health systems research and practice today. ... See MoreSee Less

The Alliance Lift: Professor Asha George in conversation with Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed

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The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed, host of the Alliance Lift, speaks with Pr...

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Health diplomacy training, pedagogical approaches, and skills assessment: a scoping review, by Ashish Joshiand colleagues Health diplomacy is gaining increasing importance as an approach in addressing domestic and global health challenges, yet educational programs that prepare future practitioners remain underdeveloped in addressing skills core to this domain of public health practice. Training in health diplomacy is critical for building interdisciplinary competencies needed to navigate increasingly complex negotiations, cross-cultural engagements, and policy influence. Competency based education in global health, widely accepted by the health professions education community, is a framework for training health professionals that focuses on observable, measurable skills and knowledge needed to meet specific health needs and improve global health outcomes.This study mapped the literature on health diplomacy education, examining curricula, training approaches, skill development, and evaluation practices, with a focus on their implications for public health diplomacy. ... See MoreSee Less

Frontiers | Health diplomacy training, pedagogical approaches, and skills assessment: a scoping review

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BackgroundHealth diplomacy is gaining increasing importance as an approach in addressing domestic and global health challenges, yet educational programs that...

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2025 Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice.
SOPH, UWC at PHASA 2025
Partnerships and Co-Design Processes for Health and Gender Equality: Insights for Programme Implementers, Researchers and Funders

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