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Access to health
The authors are involved in a number of initiatives addressing
questions of equitable access. They include the Health
Systems Knowledge Network of World Health Organization’s
(WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health; 47
the Regional Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
(EQUINET) (www.equinetafrica.org), the multi-country
Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems
(CREHS), funded by the UK Government Department for
International Development (www.crehs.lshtm.ac.uk), and a
recently initiated research programme entitled “Researching
Equitable Access to Health Care” (REACH) in South Africa. ❏
Lucy Gilson and Helen Schneider are associate professors at the
Centre for Health Policy, University of Witwatersrand. Lucy Gilson
also holds an appointment as Professor of Health Policy and
Systems at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
where she is Associate Director of the Consortium for Research on
Equitable Health Systems. She recently coordinated the Health
Systems Knowledge Network of WHO’s Commission on the Social
Determinants of Health, and is on the Steering Committee of the
Southern African Network EQUINET. Helen Schneider is coprincipal
investigator on the South Africa-based Researching
Equitable Access to Health Care research programme.
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