title: Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis?
abstract: Health systems experts from around the world discuss why they were meeting at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research while people were dying of Ebola in West Africa.
authors.affiliation: CHIP, Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research and WHO Collaborating Centre on HIV and Viral Hepatitis, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Jeffrey.Lazarus@regionh.dk.
authors.forename: Jeffrey V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Lazarus
authors.affiliation: Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. dina.balabanova@lshtm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Balabanova
authors.affiliation: CHIP, Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research and WHO Collaborating Centre on HIV and Viral Hepatitis, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. kelly@safreed-harmon.com.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Safreed-Harmon
authors.affiliation: Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa. Karen.Daniels@mrc.ac.za.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Daniels
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. kopano.mabaso@dph.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Kopano Matlwa
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Mabaso
authors.affiliation: The Centre for Health and Social Change (ECOHOST), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Martin.McKee@lshtm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McKee
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. T.Mirzoev@leeds.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Tolib
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mirzoev
authors.affiliation: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD, USA. ahyder1@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Adnan A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Hyder
authors.affiliation: Program on Global Health and Human Rights, Institute for Global Health, Gould School of Law, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Gruskin@med.usc.edu.|Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Gruskin@med.usc.edu.
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gruskin
mesh_terms: D000354:Africa, Western / Q000453:epidemiology; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D014943:Global Health; D006078:Government Programs; D006302:Health Services Research; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008483:Medical Assistance; D012106:Research