Subject: RE: Welcoming you to HSR2020 Satellite Session_Wednesday 31 from 16.00-17.30 Gulf Standard Time
From: Fadi El-Jardali <[email-masked]>
To: Shita Dewi <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Maia Uchaneishvili <[email-masked]>, "Dr. Ijeoma Okedo-Alex" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "KWAMIE, Aku" <[email-masked]>, Racha Fadlallah <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:41:36 +0000

Dear all,

Thank you for the successful session yesterday.

We would like to congratulate you for a very rich, energetic and forward-looking session! The program would not be a success without your efforts and commitments.
Special thanks also to our policymakers and stakeholders for sharing their valuable insights and experience and, for demonstrating a strong will to champion evidence use in decision-making and action.

We are very pleased and delighted to see the breadth of high-caliber work and activities undertaken by the different institutions to support evidence-informed decision-making
for health. We are inspired by the remarkable changes and impacts being achieved at different levels. We hope the insights and learnings from the session continue to spark and inspire action to promote, strengthen and institutionalize evidence-informed health
policymaking and action in your countries and region.

At K2P Center, we remain committed to our role as a global Mentor Institute, and we look forward to continuing the journey with you all as you
become drivers of change and champions of evidence-informed policymaking in your respective contexts. Great that you are from the first successful cohort of the mentorship program.

Finally, we would like to thank the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at WHO for making the mentorship program a reality. Their commitment and support
from the very start has been crucial for the establishment and success of the institutionalized Mentorship Program

We look forward to continue our journey and to strengthen our collaborations and impacts.

Best regards,

Fadi

Fadi El-Jardali, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Professor of Health Policy and Systems

Director – Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center

Director – WHO Collaborating Center for Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice

Co-Director –
Center for Systematic Reviews in Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK)

Co-Editor-in-Chief – Health Research Policy and Systems (HARPS Journal)

Faculty of Health Sciences, Room 136A

American University of Beirut

Riad El Solh, Beirut 1107 2020

Beirut, Lebanon

Tel: +961-1-350000 ext. 4692

Cell: +961-3-357775

@feljardali