Overview

The Equity Cluster aims to strengthen capacity in the Asia-Pacific region and countries to use contemporary concepts, methods and knowledge to understand and assess inequities in health systems, identify determinants and drivers of inequities, and implement effective policy and health system responses to achieve more equitable health systems. The equity cluster seeks to do this by strengthening the capacity, skills and knowledge of policy-makers, managers and technical experts in Asia-Pacific countries through training founded on global and regional best practices, through training-of-trainers activities, and strengthening the capacity of regional training institutions and network members to support these objectives.

A core focus of the equity cluster training effort is to enable professionals to speak a “common language” about equity in health and health systems, to understand why equity should be important, and to achieve deeper understanding of what drives equity in health and health systems, and the role of value judgments.

Under this cluster we offer 2 course

• Flagship Course on Equity and Health Systems
• Analyzing Health and Healthcare Inequalities Methods Course