The Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2018) will take place in Liverpool, UK from 8 to 12 October, 2018, bringing together approximately 2,000 health systems researchers, policymakers and practitioners from around the world. HSR2018 just launched a call for abstracts, referring to the Symposium theme “Advancing Health Systems for All in the Sustainable Development Goal Era” and to the four sub-themes:

• The SDGs as a stimulus for renewed multisectoral action
• Polemic and pragmatism: engaging the private sector in moving towards universal health coverage
• Leaving no one behind: health systems that deliver for all
• Community health systems – where community needs are located, but often the invisible level of health systems

Organized session proposals can be proposed until 15 January 2018.