Firth global symposium on research of healthcare système, Liverpool (United Kingdom), October 8-12, 2018.

The most recent international symposium on research on healthcare systems took place in Liverpool in October, 2018. Its theme was the promotion of healthcare systems for all in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals. This biennial event is the occasion to bring together all the players in this domain- researchers, policy-makers, and field workers - to share the newest work. Numerous subjects were raised, some of them mentioned in the article: quality of care in healthcare systems through the necessary improvement in the practices of professionals, the issues of scaling up health interventions, mobilization of knowledge for the development of public policy, and the role of the private sector. Although this field has developed greatly over the past 20 years and has become central in both development aide and international health, it remains relatively little known in the French-speaking world and France is largely absent from it.