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Journalists from low and middle income countries are invited to apply for support for travel, expenses and registration to attend a major global conference on health systems research, to be held in Beijing: 31 October to 3 November 2012. Leading experts and speakers from across the world will be participating in the ground-breaking meeting centred on the theme of Inclusion and Innovation towards Universal Health Coverage and which will showcase research on the way health systems do and don't work.

The meeting, the 2nd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, is being hosted by the Peking University Health Science Center, and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) through the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Special Programme for Research
and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR); and BRAC University in Bangladesh.

PLEASE NOTE: 31 August, 2012 is the deadline for applications. Application forms and information are available on the Symposium website in the media section. http://www.hsr-symposium.org/index.php/media

For more information contact:
• Susan Jupp, Symposium communications, susan.jupp@bluewin.ch
• Jamie Guth, Communications Manager, WHO/TDR, guthj@who.int, +41 22 7912289

This bookmark links to the Implementation Science article: ‘How to know what you need to do’: a cross country comparison of maternal health guidelines in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania'. The article looks at the guidelines for clinical research in each country and the barriers to these being used effectively in practice, and how the guidelines might be altered.