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Builds an understanding of the purpose and nature of health systems research and evaluation (HSRE) as a multi-disciplinary endeavor with scope for diverse inferences. Provides a landscape of the range of research questions and associated methodological approaches and study designs available for HSRE within health system building blocks and at various levels of the health system (macro, meso, micro). Explores cross-cutting issues of equity and social justice, digital health applications and scientific rigor. Fosters the ability to develop different research strategies depending on the research question at hand and to read health systems research (HSR) critically.