The current issue of the International Journal of Health Systems and Implementation Research have seen a sizable increase in the submission of articles by researchers and various scholars that can impact health policy and implementation. The current edition includes an editorial on Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), which is a landmark for understanding India’s ageing population. The issue includes a number of viewpoints ranging from the one which highlights the need for an army of public health workers to combat the growing wrath of viruses in the 21^st century to the ones that focus on the public health concern revolving Swine Flu influenza and highlight the shortfalls for strengthening India’s health system. There is an interesting short review on Artificial intelligence (AI), one of the very promising tools that has the potential for early detection of epidemic causes and outbreaks of infectious diseases. Another short review in the field of mental health highlights the state of research on giftedness and gifted education. The issue further includes original research articles from a wide range of topics i.e. impact of Government-e-Marketplace (GeM) on procurement compared to conventional methods in a public hospital in India and a psychological probe that includes sleepiness among taxi drivers. Additionally, two cross-sectional studies focus on the assessment of the health insurance coverage in the state of Haryana and the other one on the prevalence of insomnia and its impact on daily function among mid-aged population of Bhubaneswar, Odisha.