In our first attempt in August 2013, participants identified 34 priority areas for health systems research evidence synthesis. The emerging priority areas were about delivery arrangements (18, 53%); followed by financial (9, 26%) and organizational (6, 18%) arrangements. However, financial arrangements (8, 80%) dominated the 10 priority questions. These categories highlighted health insurance, health worker remuneration and resource allocation as a resilient priority area for health system evidence synthesis in Uganda. Participants were from Government departments of health in Uganda (4), Consumer representative organizations in Uganda (1), Non-Governmental Organizations in Uganda (6), Research institutions (12). The specific home institutions were:
- Ministry of Health, Uganda
- National Medical Stores, Uganda
- National Drug Authority, Uganda
- Medicines and Health Services Delivery Monitoring Unit, Uganda
- Uganda National Health Consumers Organization
- Children’s AIDS Fund Uganda
- Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health
- Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau
- AIDS Information Centre
- Management Sciences for Health
- Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau
- Uganda National Academy of Sciences
- Gulu University Department of Community Health
- Makerere University School of Public Health
- International Health Sciences University, Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care,
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology Department of Public Health
- Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University School of Medicine.
- Centre for the Development of Best Practices in Health, University of Yaoundé 1 Cameroon
- Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
- Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
- University of Botswana, Gabarone; Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania.
