What role can health policy and systems research play in supporting responses to COVID-19 that strengthen socially just health systems?

Affiliations

• ¹ Section Editor Health Policy Processes, Health Policy and Systems Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
• ² Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
• ³ Ghana Health Service, Ghana.
• ⁴ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ⁵ Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Benin.
• ⁶ Health Systems Global and University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
• ⁷ Benguet State University, The Philippines.
• ⁸ University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ⁹ Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya and Oxford University, UK.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India.
• ¹¹ University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
• ¹² Section Editor Health Policy Processes, Health Policy and Planning and Johns Hopkins University, USA.
• ¹³ Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Section Editor Health Systems Research, Health Policy and Planning and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
• ¹⁵ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium.
• ¹⁶ University of Cape Town, South Africa.