Third Annual UHC Financing Forum: Greater Equity for Better Health and Financial Protection

Overview Satellite Session Agenda [pdf]

WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL: APRIL 18, 2018

8:30 – 10:00: SATELLITE SESSIONS 1 & 2

• Columbia 8: What makes a good case for investing budget allocations for health?
• Columbia 6: How to use health insurance claims data for better decision making?

10:30 – 12:00: SATELLITE SESSIONS 3 & 4

• Columbia 8: Donors decide but countries deliver: How can development assistance support equity and UHC?
• Columbia 6: Taxing Tobacco for Health, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and Equity

10:45 – 12:15 EXTRA SESSION AT THE PALOMAR HOTEL-NOTE: this event is not at Hilton

• National Ballroom: Public financial management in health: how can planning and budgeting support health sector objectives

12:30 – 14:00: SATELLITE SESSIONS 5 & 6

• Columbia 8: Taking financial protection home – fad or future?
• Columbia 6: What do health workers have to do with it? HRH considerations for advancing equitable health financing

14:30 – 16:00: SATELLITE SESSIONS 7 & 8

• Columbia 8: Progressive paths to going universal: A synthesis of lessons from 40 country case studies in LICs, LMICs and HICs
• Columbia 6: The Future of Financing UHC

16:30 – 18:00: SATELLITE SESSIONS 9 & 10

• Columbia 8: Financing global health and the future of Universal Health Coverage
• Columbia 6: Reducing national expenditures while increasing equitable access to healthcare using managed equipment service frameworks

18:30 – 20:00: SATELLITE SESSIONS 11 & 12

• Columbia 8: On the path to Universal Health Coverage: boosting the demographic transition by attaining sustainable financing for family planning
• Columbia 6: Activity based Budgeting versus program based budgeting: Which is better for the health sector?

Overview draft agenda [pdf]

Detailed draft agenda [pdf]

WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL: APRIL 19, 2018

7:30: Registration opens / Breakfast

8:30 – 9:15: Columbia Main: Introduction / Setting the stage

9:15 – 10:30: PLENARY SESSION 1

• Columbia Main: Revenue Generation and Equity: Who Should Worry About It?
• Technical note [PDF]

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee / Tea break

11:00 – 12:15: PLENARY SESSION 2 

• Columbia Main: Pooling for equity: “It’s not (just) what you do, but the way that you do it”
• Technical Note [PDF]

12:15 – 12:45: PLENARY ADDRESS

• Columbia Main: How will we know when we have achieved UHC? A new global database

12:45 – 14:00: LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 BREAKOUT SESSION 1

• Columbia Main: The promise of explicit priority setting for equity
• Columbia 3-4: Providing health care to refugee populations: How to pay the bill?
• Columbia 9-10: Novel approaches to including equity on health financing in Indonesia
• Columbia 11-12: Achieving good health for all through purchasing: practical tools for countries by countries of the Joint Learning Network for UHC

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee/Tea Break

16:00 – 17:30 BREAKOUT SESSION 2

• Columbia 3-4: Discussions on universal pooling in the Americas
• Columbia Main: A bitter pill: addressing health commodity purchasing as a driver of inefficiency and inequality
• Columbia 9-10: What you can’t measure, you can’t change: Data analytics to support equity, what’s new?
• Columbia 11-12: (Un)intentional institutionalization of out-of-pocket payments: What to do when provider payment arrangements undermine equity objectives?
• Columbia 2: Is Performance-based Financing Equity Enhancing? Evidence from World Bank Impact Evaluations

17:30 – 19:00: Columbia West: RECEPTION

WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL: APRIL 20, 2018

7:30 – 8:30: Breakfast

8:30 – 9:45: PLENARY SESSION 3

• Columbia Main: Why is it so hard to get resources to the frontline?
• Technical note [PDF]

9:45 – 10:30: Columbia Main: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Gita Sen

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee/Tea break

11:00 – 12:30 BREAKOUT SESSION 3

• Columbia Main: With rising inequality and concentration of wealth, are we looking in the right places to finance UHC?
• Columbia 3-4: Equitable health financing and the law
• Columbia 9-10: Getting resources to the frontline II: What is private sector’s role?
• Columbia 11-12: Immunization as a trailblazer towards UHC: using health financing policy levers to achieve equitable immunization outcomes

12:30 – 13:30: LUNCH

13:30 – 14:45: PLENARY SESSION 4

• Columbia Main: Accountability and fairness in process: What is its role in promoting equity in health financing?
• Technical note [PDF]

14:45 – 15:15: Technical summary and wrap-up

15:15 – 16:00: Coffee/Tea break and travel to World Bank Main Campus Building

16:00 – 17:30: FLAGSHIP EVENT

• World Bank Main Campus Building 1818 H Street NW: Wolfensohn Atrium: Towards Universal Health Coverage: Tackling the Crisis in Health Financing to End Poverty

17:30 – 18:30: RECEPTION: World Bank Main Campus Building: Wolfensohn Atrium

•           Africa Health Budget Network

•           Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

•           Center for Global Development

•           Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

•           Ghana - National Health Insurance Authority

•           Global Financing Facility

•           Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

•           Government of Kenya

•           International Monetary Fund

•           Japan International Cooperation Agency

•           London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

•           Mexico – Funsalud

•           Ministry of Health, Indonesia

•           National Chilean Public Health Insurance Agency (FONASA)

•           Nigeria – Federal Ministry of Health

•           Norwegian Institute of Public Health

•           Save the Children, UK

•           United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

•           World Bank Group

•           World Health Organization (WHO)

Background paper

How Will Know When We Have Achieved Universal Health Coverage? [PDF]

Equity on the Path to UHC: Deliberate Decisions for Fair Financing [PDF]

Technical Summary [PDF]

Video: Global Health Financing...it's World Health Day!

10 Reasons to Invest in the GFF [PDF]

GFF Fact Sheet: The GFF's Contribution to Domestic Resource Mobilization for Health and Nutrition [PDF]

GFF Fact Sheet: Maximizing Impact: How the GFF Trust Fund Complements and Adds Value to IDA [PDF]

GFF Fact Sheet: Universal Health Coverage [PDF]

New Perspectives on Global Health Spending for Universal Health Coverage [PDF]