“S4HS Skill Lab: Methods and innovations in health system performance measurement”
Date: October 28, 2025
Time: 9AM-5PM
Location: Knight Center, Washington University (Room: TBC)
Capacity: 50 Participants
Cost: $100
Target Audience: Junior to Mid-Career Health Systems Researchers and Policymakers
This course aims to develop participants’ understanding of key concepts in health system quality measurement and analysis. It will review measures of health system quality, suggest where to focus measurement, and provide examples of innovative tools for measuring quality, including in settings without extensive data. By the end of the course, participants should be able to describe the fundamental concepts of health system quality, explain cutting-edge measurement approaches, and propose measurement strategies applicable to countries across geographies and income levels.
COURSE AIMS:
- Introduce the fundamentals of health system quality measurement
- Build technical capacity for health system performance assessment (concepts, indicators, translation) across settings
- Prepare participants to better engage with S4HS conference content
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants who complete this course should be able to:
- Define and describe core concepts of health system quality from the High-Quality Health Systems Commission framework
- Describe and critically assess indicators of health system quality measurement
- Explain the latest methodological approaches used in measuring health system quality
- Apply learnings to a specific country context
RECOMMENDED PRE-COURSE READINGS:
Readings:
- Executive summary and introduction (pages e1196-e1199): Kruk, M. E., Gage, A. D., Arsenault, C., Jordan, K., Leslie, H. H., Roder-DeWan, S., … & Pate, M. (2018). High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution. The Lancet global health, 6(11), e1196-e1252.
- Kruk ME, Sabwa S, Lewis TP, Aniebo I, Arsenault C, Carai S, Garcia PJ, … & Nzinga J. Population assessment of health system performance in 16 countries. Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Jul 1;102(7):486-497B. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.291184. Epub 2024 Apr 30. PMID: 38933481; PMCID: PMC11197641.
- Lewis TP, Kapoor NR, Aryal A, Bazua-Lobato R, Carai S, Clarke-Deelder E, Croke K, … & Kruk ME. Measuring people’s views on health system performance: Design and development of the People’s Voice Survey. PLoS Med. 2023 Oct 6;20(10):e1004294. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004294. PMID: 37801441; PMCID: PMC10588880.
- Arsenault C, Wright K, Taddele T, Tadele A, Derseh Mebratie A, Tiruneh Tiyare F, Kosgei RJ, … & Kruk ME. The maternal and newborn health eCohort to track longitudinal care quality: study protocol and survey development. Glob Health Action. 2024 Dec 31;17(1):2392352. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2392352. Epub 2024 Aug 20. PMID: 39163134; PMCID: PMC11338195.
Activities:
- QuEST Network online course (link forthcoming)