Eight National Summit of Health and Population Scientist in Nepal

Eight National Summit of Health and Population Scientist in Nepal | NHRC : The Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) is hosting the Eighth National Summit of Health Population and Scientists in Nepal, with the theme “Advancing Health Policy and Systems Research: Lessons for a Resilient Health System in Nepal”.
The NHRC is an apex body of the Government of Nepal (GoN) entrusted with regulating, coordinating, and promoting high quality health and population research in Nepal. Since 2015, the NHRC has hosted annual summits of health and population scientists to generate new knowledge through high-quality research and promote use of evidence in decision making by fostering dialogue between researchers, implementers and policymakers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed health systems resilience in all countries. Nepal’s health system has also faced a massive burden due to the pandemic. Despite its limited resources, Nepal responded to the pandemic to its ability while ensuring delivery of essential health services, by developing several policies, guidelines, and strategic initiatives. The NHRC also developed a national guideline for ‘Strengthening Evidence Generation on COVID-19’ with the goal of regulating, managing, and facilitating COVID-19-related researches in order to generate country-specific evidence for Nepal. Similarly, NHRC continuously supported the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and the GoN in providing contemporary evidence to adapt, improve, and modify policies and practices in response to the COVID-19 challenges.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of generating contextually tailored evidence through high-quality health policy and system research and their use in decision making thereby strengthening health systems resilience to tackle future pandemics, shocks and stressors to the system. The Eighth National Summit with the theme “Advancing Health Policy and Systems Research: Lessons for Resilient Health System in Nepal” will be a continuum of the previous summits as an annual gathering of researchers, academicians, scientists, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange ideas and health research evidence on national health issues and priorities focusing on lessons from Nepal’s response to COVID-19 and to previous natural disasters. This year’s national summit seeks to facilitate discussion on health systems and policy research (HPSR), as well as its advancement, in order to accomplish communal health goals and construct a resilient health system.
Health systems and policy research (HSPR) is multidisciplinary by nature. It focuses on creating an exhaustive scenario of how collaborative efforts from health institutions, populations and key actors like policy makers and researchers facilitate in building resilient health systems through promotion of evidence-based policy and policy-informed research. The ability to respond effectively to crises, maintain critical health functions during crises, and be aware of potential health hazards is what a resilient health system entails. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has pinpointed the significance of a resilient health system in handling public health emergencies and the consequences afterwards. Evidence from health systems and policy research can play a critical role in identifying and selecting policy solutions to meet the needs of the country at the time of crises and thereby aid in building resilience of the country’s health system.

This year’s national summit of health and population scientists aims to bring health systems researchers, practitioners, program designers and policymakers together to discuss lessons from past emergencies including the COVID-19 pandemic and utilize these lessons to improve and transform Nepal’s health system to better prepare it for public health emergencies and future pandemics.

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Objectives

– To provide a unified platform for health scientists, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and practitioners to share research evidence on national health priorities
– To foster networking and dialogue exchange between policymakers and health and population experts
– To discuss upon lessons learnt from Nepal’s COVID-19 response and previous emergencies and way forward for developing health systems resilience
– To encourage young researchers as well as experts to collaborate, innovate and promote research on current health priorities in Nepal
– To synthesize evidence for contributing to formulate health sector strategic plan and annual work plan and budget

Frequently Asked Question for Eight National Summit of Health and Population Scientist in Nepal | NHRC

Q: Can I submit already published works or works under publication for the Summit?
A: Yes. However, the evaluation and ultimate selection of these kinds of abstracts will largely be based on sound research methodology and with policy implications or contributes significantly to expansion of existing knowledge.

Q: Can I submit the abstract in format other than that mentioned in the abstract submission guidelines?
A: No. The abstracts have to be submitted strictly abiding by the abstract submission guidelines as mentioned in our official website so as to avoid rejection in the preliminary screening.

Q: Can I submit the abstract by sending it directly to the NHRC email?
A: No. The abstracts should be submitted through the online submission only and the abstracts sent by process other than that will not be entertained and will subject to rejection.

Travel and registration

Q: Will I get any travel bursaries or accommodation to attend the Summit?
A: No. The Summit does not have any provision to grant travel bursaries or accommodation costs for the Summit. The attendees will have to arrange these costs on their own.

Q: If my paper gets selected for the Summit, do I still have to pay for the registration?
A: No. The registration fee of the participants whose abstract has been selected for the presentation will be waived.

Q: If my abstract gets selected, do all the coauthors of the paper get to attend the Summit without paying for registration?
A: No. The registration fee will be waived only for the presenter of the paper and not for the coauthors.

Q: Can I pay the registration fee at the Summit itself?
A: No. The registration fee has to be paid prior to the Summit through our online registration in our website.

Q: What if my paper gets rejected but I still want to attend the Summit as a participant?
A: You can attend the Summit by making online registration through the register page of our website.

Publication

Q: Will my paper be published in the Journal of Nepal Health Research Council (JNHRC) if selected for presentation in the Summit?
A: Yes, JNHRC will publish a supplementary issue to publish only the abstracts of the papers of those authors who have not published or do not have plans to publish the work elsewhere. However, only the abstracts but not the full texts will be published in the supplementary issue of the JNHRC.

Q: What if I wish to publish my paper in full text in some other journals and not just the abstract?
A:If the authors wish to submit their paper in some other journals in full text, they should make a prior notice to the NHRC in order to exclude it from publication in the supplementary issue of JNHRC and proceed as needful with their submission in other journals. However, the paper will still be published in the Summit abstract book.

Official Website

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Objectives

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Travel and registration

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