ABSTRACT
The way health systems are governed has gained increasing global attention in recent years. The global health community, after pursuing primary health care, followed by single-disease control strategies, health sector reform, and then health system strengthening, has now turned to governance questions in seeking to improve health. The crisis of pandemic Ebola in West Africa in 2014 has recently heightened global awareness about the critical importance of governing health systems and the tragic consequences of weak health systems. During this same time period, over the past thirty years the Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health has sought to cultivate cutting-edge researchers working on the allocation of limited resources for health. Governance of health systems has also become a prominent theme in the research of many Takemi Fellows.
