Health service organisation and delivery

Our expertise is in maternal, sexual health, and reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS as well as national, sub-national, community, and facility systems for service delivery. We are also responsible for supporting knowledge management, drawing out learning and disseminating knowledge from the complex frameworks and programmes delivered by the Health team. Specifically, we work on:  

• Improving maternal, sexual, and reproductive health and rights policies, programmes, and services;
• Strengthening national, sub-national, hospital, and primary health care service-related policies, strategies, and operational plans;
• Strengthening community health service organisation and monitoring;
• Improving service and system performance frameworks and their use by decision makers;
• Supporting for the development and implementation of health reform strategies at Primary Health Care and community levels;
• Enhancing capacities and capabilities of health sector staff and health care consultants; and
• Contributing to global health knowledge and thought leadership.  

We do this through:  

• Successful management and delivery of multi-year technical assistance programmes and short-term consultant projects;
• Development of a network across a worldwide community of technical health specialists, including global, regional, and national consultants;
• Synthesis and dissemination of lessons learned from OPM’s health projects and teams; and
• Development of training programmes and webinars.  

Examples of our thought leadership and academic publishing, include:

• How can we strengthen partnership and coordination for health system emergency preparedness and response? Findings from a synthesis of experience across countries facing shocks, BMC Health Services Research.
• Lessons learnt from UNAIDS virtual technical support to countries applying for funding from the Global Fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism, African Journal of AIDS Research. 
• Performance management in complex adaptive systems: a conceptual framework for health systems, BMJ Global Health.