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Review A Research Agenda for Malaria Eradication: Health Systems and Operational Research The malERA Consultative Group on Health Systems and Operational Research * The Health System Abstract: Health systems research and development is needed to support the global malaria eradication agenda. In 2000, The World Health Organization (WHO) articulated a In this paper, we (the malERA Consultative Group on comprehensive definition of health systems that is now widely Health Systems and Operational Research) focus on the adopted. A health system ‘‘consists of all organizations, people and health systems needs of the elimination phase of malaria actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain eradication and consider groupings of countries at health’’ [4] with goals of ‘‘improving health and health equity in different stages along the pathway to elimination. We ways that are responsive, financially fair and make the best, or examine the difference between the last attempt at most efficient, use of available resources.’’ In 2007, WHO eradication of malaria and more recent initiatives, and developed a conceptual framework comprising six ‘‘health system consider the changing health system challenges as building blocks’’ that has also been widely adopted (Box