Beyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access to Health Services was a 2010 workshop that aimed to identify emerging challenges in health systems and develop new approaches through research partnerships. The workshop sought to facilitate systematic learning and health system change through long-term collaborations between public health and social science institutes, with close links to policymakers and health system managers. It recognized a need for mutual learning in a multipolar world with many centers of health innovation and experiences with managing change, to help countries rapidly learn from each other.