Introduction:

investigations in Health Systems and Services constitute an essential component to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness; however, its use is still insufficient.

Objective:

to develop a strategy for managing investigations in Health Systems and Services.

Methods:

an organizational intervention was carried out in the Directorate of Science and Technological Innovation at the University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara, from 2017 to March 2020. Fifty-two managers of the Provincial Medical Assistance, methodologists, teaching vice-directors and forty-six professionals who took master's degrees participated. The investigation was carried out in three stages; the first, referring to the organizational diagnosis to identify the main problems in the management of services; the second, dedicated to methodological workshops on Investigations in Health Systems and Services and the third ones, corresponded to the evaluation of the results, through the registration of projects in this field and the contributions of the master's theses, regarding the solution of the identified problems. Observation, interview, document review, focus group and brainstorming were the techniques used.

Results:

a number of 221 research projects were identified in this field, as well as the execution and evaluation of 46 master's theses, with satisfactory results in the solution of the health problems studied.

Conclusions:

the developed strategy made possible the management of research projects in Health Systems and Services, and the execution of master's theses to solve priority problems.