Caribbean Health Policy and Governance Network (CHPG) is a collaborative network aimed at better understanding and improving health policy and healthcare governance in the Caribbean region through cutting-edge and co-productive research. Our network brings together healthcare and health system professionals, researchers, policymakers, and students to address critical health system challenges that are distinctive for the Caribbean region, such as regional collaboration in healthcare and sustaining health systems in rapidly changing climates. We promote evidence-informed decision-making and demand-driven knowledge production.
Our Mission
Our mission is to contribute to the exchange of knowledge about on topical health policy and healthcare governance matters throughout the Caribbean region, with the aim of supporting and sustaining well-functioning health systems and ultimately enhancing health outcomes in the Caribbean region. Our work is demand-driven and locally-embedded and we explicitly work through equitable and reciprocal collaborations that facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building among health system actors and researchers.
What We Do
In our network, we advocate for practices of evidence-informed health policymaking and policy-relevant research. To achieve such productive interactions, we seek to nurture and sustains contexts of connections that can carry relevant information on an everyday basis. We can also perform and co-organise stakeholder engagement, priority-setting exercises, dialogue sessions, rapid reviews, and evidence syntheses.
As part of this strategic area, we can conduct rapid policy analyses to inform decision-makers and promote effective healthcare governance.
Through our network, we offer trainings, workshops, and educational resources to build the capacity of healthcare professionals and policymakers in the area of healthcare governance and health policy and systems research. This involves facilitating exchanges between health actors in the Caribbean region and bachelor’s and master’s students enrolled in any of our programmes. We actively welcome Caribbean diaspora and so-called ‘children of the islands’ to our network, who we seek to empower as future generation of Caribbean health policy and systems researchers.
A key strength of our network is to jointly conduct long-term and in-depth research. In such research, we can, for instance, deploy ethnographic research methods to unravel complex phenomena in healthcare or the wider health system. We also perform mixed-methods and survey studies. It is our explicit aim to enable and support aspiring students from the region who are interested in obtaining their PhD.
Portfolio
Over the past years, we have worked on several topics in the region. A non-exhaustive list is provided below:
- Prevention and lifestyle interventions on Bonaire
- Health system collaboration in the Dutch Caribbean region
- Hospital sustainability in island contexts
- Healthcare quality improvement efforts in overseas territories
- Caribbean health research system mapping
- Hospital governance, leadership, and professional autonomy on Curaçao
- The future of elderly-care on Bonaire
- The history and development of insular health crisis organisations
- Health systems resilience in island regions
- Disaster and crisis preparedness and resilience in the Caribbean Netherlands
- Healthcare flood disaster preparedness in the Caribbean
Join us
Become a part of our network and contribute to improving health outcomes in the Caribbean region. Whether you are a policymaker, researcher, healthcare professional, or advocate, there are various ways to engage with our network as a member and become part of (future) collaboratives and networking events. There are currently no membership fees involved.
Partner with us on research projects, policy initiatives, or capacity-building activities.
Participate in our seminars and workshops to stay updated on the latest developments in Caribbean health policy and governance.
Share your expertise through articles, case studies, or policy briefs that can inform and inspire positive change.
Contact us
For more information about Caribbean Health Policy and Governance Network (CHPG), membership inquiries, or collaboration opportunities, please contact us at caribbean@eshpm.eur.nl.
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