Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury, Dean, attended a two-day consultative meeting on health systems in Toronto, Canada sponsored by DFID and Gates Foundation. Health systems professionals from developing countries attended the meeting. The meeting set up a network called ""Health Systems Action Network" (HASAN). Dr Mushtaque has been selected as member of the steering committee of this network. The Dean was one of the 25 participants selected out of a pool of 400 applicants.