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PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 18: Satellite Sessions, Washington Hilton Hotel

8:30 – 10:00 SATELLITE SESSIONS 1 & 2 Columbia 8 What makes a good case for investing budget allocations for health?

Chair:

• Jim Brumby; Director, World Bank Governance Global Practice

Panelists:

• Minister of Health, Ghana

• Director of Budget, Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Nigeria

• Director, Ministry of Finance, Japan

• Director, Ministry of Finance, Cambodia

• Representative from the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Abstract: The session will discuss the institutions, processes, capacities and information that are required to support the case for increased allocation to health within and outside the ministry of health. Each of the panelists will be asked to expand on their roles and share their experience on the mechanisms and approaches that worked or did not work in making the case for increasing health spending. They will also be asked to identify key challenges in terms of these mechanisms and resources that in their experience constrain effectiveness making the case for increased allocation to health.

Columbia 6 How to use health insurance claims data for better decision making?

Abstract: While vast amounts of health insurance claims data are being collected, the use of these data in health-related decision-making falls short of its potential. This session will explore applications of health insurance data analysis that go beyond “mere” fraud detection. These include, among others, the use of claims data to define the benefit package, inform changes to the conditions for payment, set fees, assess quality of care, promote rational drug use, and tailor services to patient risk. It will also pick up some cross-cutting issues, such as data management, provider reporting requirements, data privacy, and the potential of artificial intelligence/machine learning.

10:30 – 12:00 SATELLITE SESSIONS 3 & 4 Columbia 8

Donors decide but countries deliver: How can development assistance support equity and UHC?

Panelists:

• Karen A Grepin

• Trygve Ottersen

• Annie Haakenstad

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• Jesse B. Bump

Abstract: Development assistance for health (DAH) can support equity and the pursuit of universal health coverage (UHC), but should to be allocated appropriately and aligned with domestic priorities. Although most current funders use gross national income (GNI) per capita as an allocation criterion, this metric is deeply problematic. Recent work begun under the Equitable Access Initiative (EAI) has explored alternatives. This session presents key findings and extends the discussion through a live poll with audience members to explore the values on which allocation should be based to reflect domestic policy priorities and the pursuits of UHC and equity.

Columbia 6

Taxing Tobacco for Health, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and Equity

Moderator:

• Sheila Dutta, Senior Health Specialist

Speaker list:

• Patricio V. Marquez, Lead Public Health Specialist, Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, The World Bank

• Prabhat Jha, Director, Global Health Program, University of Toronto

• Alan Fuchs, Senior Economist, Poverty and Equity GP, The World Bank Group

• Clare Payne, Chief of Global Strategy for Tobacco Free Portfolios, Australia"

Abstract: This session will focus on global evidence related to: (i) impact of taxing tobacco on prices, consumption, and health outcomes, while expanding a country’s tax base to fund priority investments and programs, including expansion of universal health coverage, and other activities to achieve the SDGs; (ii) incidence of taxing tobacco and how it reduces the risk of impoverishment due to high out of pocket payments for treating tobacco-related diseases, particularly in countries with no universal health coverage; and (iii) how the global finance sector can be leveraged to promote tobacco free portfolios shifting away investment in the tobacco industry.

10:45 – 12:15 EXTRA SESSION AT THE PALOMAR HOTEL

Palomar Hotel,

National Ballroom

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

Speaker list:

• David Wachira, World Bank

• Vibhuti Hate, World Bank

• Mustapha Babak, World Bank

In this session, the World Bank will share and receive feedback on the first part of the public financial management (PFM) in health tool that links PFM drivers to health financing (HF) objectives, and demonstrate how the tool may be applied. An open and orderly PFM system enables (i) aggregate fiscal discipline, (ii) strategic allocation of resources, and (iii) efficient service delivery. Similarly, an effective health financing system is expected to assure funding (i) adequacy from domestic sources, (ii) predictability, (iii) efficiency, (iv)transparency and accountability, and (v)equity. Consequently, meaningful progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will require not only harnessing the developmental linkages between PFM and HF but also aligning them even closer to maximize impact. Doing so will help minimize discord between ministries of finance and health, and highlight underlining constraints to health financing objectives, and ultimately health service delivery results, that emanate from PFM arrangements that need to be addressed.

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12:30 – 14:00 SATELLITE SESSIONS 5 & 6 Columbia 8 Taking financial protection home – fad or future?

Panelists:

• Representatives from organizations creating solutions at the frontier of financial protection for health and experts on health financing and behavioral economics

Abstract: The world is not on track to achieve the second goal of UHC – financial protection. Out-of-pocket payments (OOPs) drive nearly 100 million people per year into poverty and prevent millions from seeking care. In most developing countries, the capabilities to raise public funds to effectively replace OOPs with prepaid and pooled funding remain insufficient. Technological advances and insights from behavioral economics provide opportunities to bring financial protection home, in other words, to empower families and communities to better manage the financial risks of OOPs. This session will explore the frontiers of these opportunities, generate interest in them, and determine whether they are simply fads or the future of health financing

Columbia 6 What do health workers have to do with it? HRH considerations for advancing equitable health financing

Moderator:

• Aye Aye Thwin

Panelists:

• Wanda Jaskiewicz, Project Director, USAID HRH2030 Program

• Cheryl Cashin, Managing Director, J8- panelist

• Ruben John A. Basa, Executive VP and COO, Philippine Health Insurance Cooperation

• Speaker from PAHO

Abstract: HRH shortages coupled with geographical imbalances further exacerbate inequities in the health sector and are a major impediment to UHC across LMIC. The health workforce is one of the largest cost-drivers of countries’ health systems. Yet, health financing functions don’t always appropriately consider health labor market dynamics and options for overcoming HRH constraints to advance more equitable service provision and health outcomes. This session will explore advancing equity through financing of health workforce development and other health workforce considerations in strategic purchasing and use of diverse provider payment mechanisms.

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

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Columbia 8 Progressive paths to going universal: A synthesis of lessons from 40 country case studies in LICs, LMICs and HICs

Chair:

• Joe Kutzin, Coordinator, Health Financing Policy, WHO

Speaker:

• Daniel Cotlear, Editor, Universal Health Coverage Study Series

Panelists:

• Somil Nagpal, Senior health specialist will comment on UHC in Low-income settings

• Owen Smith, Senior Economist, will comment on advancing UHC with integrated National Health Systems

• Maria-Eugenia Bonilla, Lead Economist, will comment on advancing UHC by separating providers and financiers

Abstract: Through UNICO, the UHC Study Series, the World Bank is documenting how countries are implementing UHC reforms that are equitable and improve the efficiency of health services. The Study Series has looked at UHC reform programs in 40 countries where they cover a combined population of 2.6 billion people. The case studies employ a standardized approach aimed at understanding the tools –policies, instruments and institutions- used to expand health coverage across three dimensions: population, health services and affordability. The presentation will begin with an overview of the main cross-country lessons that can be learned from the UHC policy reforms analyzed in the series and would be followed by comments about how these reforms are implemented in low-income contexts, in countries that follow a NHS path and in countries that follow a SHI path.

Columbia 6 The Future of Financing UHC

Speakers list:

• Eduardo González-Pier, Visiting Fellow at CGD and former Vice Minister of Health, Mexico

• Dov Chernichovsky, Professor Emeritus of Health Economics and Policy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Director, Health Program, Taub Center for Social Policy in Israel

• Chris Murray (tbc), Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Institute Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

• Sanjeev Gupta (confirmed), Visiting Senior Fellow, CGD Washington DC and former Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department IMF

• Thomas Getzen (confimed) Former Executive Director, International Health Economics Association, Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, Temple University

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• Janette Vega (tbc), Director, National Public Health Insurance Agency

• Christoph Kurowski, Global Lead - Health Financing, World Bank Group

Abstract: As developing economies strive to achieve universal health coverage through a healthcare system that is responsive, efficient, equitable and sustainable, they must anticipate the impact and opportunities of the unfolding 4th industrial revolution. Through rapid development of new technologies, this revolution transforms fast both health needs and the ways they are addressed and financed. The framework considers the indirect impact of new

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technology on health needs, combined with its direct impact on care delivery. The session will discuss on future trend on costs of care and reflect on the impact of new technology on sources of finance and private-public mix.

16:30 – 18:00 SATELLITE SESSIONS 9 & 10 Columbia 8 Financing global health and the future of Universal Health Coverage

Abstract: Universal health coverage (UHC) has become a global and national priority for improving health outcomes, equity, and financing. Achieving UHC requires establishing and maintaining financing systems that provide an adequate supply of pooled resources to pay for key health services without placing undue financial stress on patients. Understanding the status of current health financing and trajectories for future financing is vital for the design and implementation of sustainable UHC initiatives. This satellite session will present novel research that estimates future health spending for 188 countries through 2040, assesses the relationship between health spending and UHC, and estimates future UHC under three distinct scenarios for each country through 2030 and 2040. This research is part of the annual Financing Global Health research and this occasion will mark the launch of this years’ prospective research findings.

Speaker:

• Christopher Murray MD/DPhil (IHME)

Columbia 6 Reducing national expenditures while increasing equitable access to healthcare using managed equipment service frameworks

Abstract: Medical equipment - diagnostic and therapeutic - in developing countries often is not working due to planning errors, lack of maintenance or absence of trained staff. Managed Equipment Services (MES) is a partnership model that makes payments conditional on the equipment being functional over its lifetime, transferring responsibility for planning, maintenance. Training etc. to the vendor. While this model has obvious advantages, it is more complex in terms of procurement and contract oversight. The session will explore how countries can make use of MES, with a focus on capacity development in procurement and contract management.

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

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On the path to Universal Health Coverage: boosting the demographic transition by attaining sustainable financing for family planning

Speaker list:

• Ellen Starbird, Director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, USAID

• Gifty Addico, Chief Commodity Security Branch, UNFPA

• Suneeta Sharma, Director, Health Policy Plus Project, and Vice President, Health Practice at Palladium

• Cynthia Eldridge, Impact for Health

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Columbia 6

Activity based Budgeting versus program based budgeting: Which is better for the health sector?

Moderator:

• World Bank Governance Global Practice Manager (to be confirmed)

Panelists:

• Joe Kutzin, WHO

• Ajay Tandon, World Bank

• Two country representatives (to be confirmed)

Abstract: It has often been argued that the uniqueness of the production process for health services is best supported by a program-based budgeting (PBB) regime. PBB supposedly enhances health service delivery results because it affords greater predictability in funds flow and flexibility in the use of funds. As a consequence, most health financing reforms focusing on results-based financing -in low to lower middle-income countries- have championed program-based budgeting as the preferred form of budgeting for the sector. However, viewed from a PFM lens, a fundamental question to address is whether or not activity-based budgeting is the real villain of unpredictable funds flow and inflexible use of funds in the health sector (and other sectors)? This section will debate this issue, with two teams, representing program-based budgeting and activity-based budgeting, respectively.

Thursday, April 19, Washington Hilton Hotel

7:30 Registration opens / Breakfast 8:30 – 9:15 Introduction / Setting the stage

Columbia Main

• Annette Dixion, Vice President, Human Development Global Practice Group, World Bank Group

• Irene Koek, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID

• Christoph Kurowski, Global Lead, Health Financing, World Bank Group 9:15 – 10:30 PLENARY SESSION 1

Columbia Main

Does the way that funds are raised for health reduce or increase inequities in overall revenue generation?

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10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / Tea break 11:00 – 12:15 PLENARY SESSION 2

Columbia Main

One pool, two pools, multiple pools: does it matter for equity? Chair:

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12:15 – 12:45 PLENARY ADDRESS

How will we know when we have achieved UHC? A new global database • Adam Wagstaff

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 BREAKOUT SESSION 1

Columbia Main

a. The promise of explicit priority setting for equity

Moderator:

• Amanda Glassman, Speakers:

• Kalipso Chalkidou, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

• Nishant Jain, Programme Director, Indo-German Social Security Program, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

• Carleigh Krubiner, Research Scholar and Project Director, Johns Hopkins University

• Ricardo Bitran, President, Bitran y Asociados Abstract: This session will explore how explicit priority setting can best promote equity and financial risk protection. We will discuss the process and criteria for priority setting, the design of benefit packages, and the use of Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (ECEA) and insights from the Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (DCP3) project.

Columbia 3-4

b. Providing health care to refugee populations: How to pay the bill?

Moderator:

• Nadwa Rafeh, Senior Operations Officer, World Bank Group Moderator: Panelists:

• Paul Spiegel, Director, Center for Humanitarian Health/Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health

• Chris Kurowski, Global Lead, Health Financing GSG, World Bank

• Randa Hamadeh, Head of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon

• Nancy Jackson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, USA

Concluding Remarks

• Aakanksha Pande, Senior Health Economist, World Bank Group

• Nadwa Rafeh, Senior Operations Officer, World Bank Group

Abstract: Conflict, climate change, and natural disasters have resulted in forced displacement of over 65 million people, either as refugees or internally displaced populations (IDPs). Through a lightning round presentation and an interactive discussion, this session will synthesize experiences in designing and implementing unique health financing models, including refugee

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health insurance, donor funding, and domestic resources for health. We will then identify pathways to providing quality, equitable, and sustainable health coverage in forced displacement.

Columbia 9-10

c. Novel approaches to including equity on health financing in Indonesia

Moderator

• Pandu Harimurti, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank Panelists:

• Hasbullah Thabrany, Adviser to the National Social Security Council

• Budi Hidayat, Chair, Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies, Universitas Indonesia

• Komaryani Kalsum, MPPM, Head, Center for Health Financing and Insurance, Ministry of Health

• Maya Amiarny Rusady, MPH, Director, BPJS Health

Abstract: This session presents: (1) architecture of centralized healthcare financing functions applied in the national health insurance in Indonesia (JKN) by highlighting equity and political dilemma in decentralized country, (2) JKN impact assessment on equity, and connects such results into (3) policy refinements and (4) implementations. A fish-bowl discussion to incorporate audience’s perspectives will be followed, including succinctly remarks with recommendations to inform, monitor and evaluate UHC, especially on the impact on equity.

Columbia 11-12

d. Achieving good health for all through purchasing: practical tools for countries by countries of the Joint Learning Network for UHC

Moderator:

• Dr. Kamaliah Noh, International PHC Policy Expert and former Head of Primary Health Care Unit at MOH, Malaysia

Panelists:

• Dr. Tham Chi Dung, Division of Healthcare Provider Payment Mechanism Management, Department of Planning and Finance, MOH Vietnam

• Dr. Mohd Saifee bin Ismail, Senior Principal Assistant Director & Head of Sector, Primary Care Clinical and Technical Support, Primary Care Section, Family Health Development Division, MOH Malaysia

• Dr. Tsolmongerel Tsilaajav, International Health Economist and Policy Expert; former Director of Policy and Planning, MOH Mongolia

Abstract: Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage country practitioners from Malaysia, Mongolia, and Vietnam will discuss the importance of getting the “what to purchase, from whom, and how to pay” questions right for PHC services. Presenters will share co-developed tools and knowledge products for addressing PHC benefit package design, private sector engagement, and financing and payment, and provide a forum for participants to meet with country mentors who can advise on use of the tools.

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break 16:00 – 17:30 BREAKOUT SESSION 2

Columbia Main

a. A bitter pill: addressing health commodity purchasing as a driver of inefficiency and inequality

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Moderator:

• Amanda Glassman, COO and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

• Kalipso Chalkidou, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Panelists:

• Carleigh Krubiner, Research Scholar and Project Director, Johns Hopkins University

• Nishant Jain, Programme Director, Indo-German Social Security Program, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

• Ricardo Bitran, President, Bitran y Asociados

• Paolo Syling, Policy Fellow, Department of Health, Philippines

• Rabia Kahveci, Chair, Health Technology Assessment Unit, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital

Abstract: This session will challenge participants to consider health commodity procurement as a core element of equitable and universal health coverage. It will feature new data on the state of health commodity markets in LMICs; a discussion of the ethical and equity-related dimensions of pharmaceutical purchasing; and country spotlights on health commodity procurement with a focus on transitioning country issues in India, Chile, Turkey, and the Philippines.

Columbia 3-4

b. Discussions on universal pooling in the Americas

Chair:

• Lorena Prieto, Pan American Health Organization Moderator:

• Juan Pablo Pagano, Pan American Health Organization Panelists:

• The Bahamas: Duane Sands, Minister of Health, The Bahamas

• Health authority (to be determined), Chile

• Luis Vega Tejada, Chair of High Level Commission, Panama

• Janice Seinfeld, Social Protection Commissioner, Peru

Abstract: Panelists from four countries in the Americas discuss the main challenges, enabling factors, and expected outcomes of establishing of a national health fund to ensure universal health access in a context of segmented health systems. Key questions include: Why the need for reform? Why a single fund? What is/are the focus of discussions? What are the challenges and enabling factors? What are the expected results in equity and financial protection?

Columbia 9-10

c. What you can’t measure, you can’t change: Data analytics to support equity, what’s new?

Moderator:

• Arin Dutta, Technical Director, Health Finance, Health Policy Plus Project Presenters:

• Veronica Magar, Team Leader, Gender, Equity and Human Rights team, WHO

• Jumana Qamruddin, Senior Health Specialist and Team Leader, Madagascar Health, Nutrition and Population team

• Lyubov Teplitskaya, Associate, Health Policy Plus Project Discussants:

• Catherine Connor, Deputy Director, Health Finance & Governance Project

• Riku Elovainio, Economist, Social Protection/Social Cohesion Unit, OECD Development Centre

• Dr. Pujiyanto, Professor of Health Economics, University of Indonesia

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Abstract: If equity requires special attention, can we distinguish whether the level of equity in a health system is (relatively speaking) bad, good, or improving? Measurement of equity is an important challenge. Is the baseline level of equity measurable – i.e., outcomes of current arrangements which distribute public spending, affect overall financial protection, and promote utilization of health services among the poor? Measurement should lead to action: What changes in health financing arrangements are necessary to allocate and spend funds to reduce inequity? How can low- and lower-middle income (L/LMIC) countries know that changes to health financing arrangements are having pro-equity effects? Are the available measurement methods ‘fit for purpose’; i.e., do they answer questions policymakers ask, in a way that allows policy change? Can we define ‘equity’ in a way that supports evaluation of reforms and policy changes? Our premise for this dialogue is that different measurement tools and methodologies are required and often will answer different questions.

Columbia 11-12

d. (Un)intentional institutionalization of out-of-pocket payments: What to do when provider payment arrangements undermine equity objectives?

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• TBA Panelists:

• Cheryl Cashin, Managing Director, R4D

• Jack Langenbrunner, Gates Foundation

• Nathaniel Otoo, Executive Director, Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center

Abstract: While expanding insurance coverage should increase financial protection, provider payment policies often undermine this goal through incentivizing provider and patient behavior that encourages out-of-pocket spending. Examples include inadequate co-payment policies, uncontrolled excess billing, failure to clearly define benefits packages and payment rules, inadequate remuneration of providers, and weak regulation of private care. In this session, policy experts and practitioners will shed light on why – unintentionally, but sometimes intentionally – provider payment policy can institutionalize high levels of out-of-pocket payment.

17:30 – 19:00

Columbia West Reception

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Friday, April 20, 2018, Washington Hilton Hotel

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? Moderator:

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Abstract: 9:45 – 10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Columbia Main

Keynote Address

• Gita Sen 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea break 11:00 – 12:30 BREAKOUT SESSION 3

Columbia Main

a. With rising inequality and concentration of wealth, are we looking in the right places to finance UHC?

Opening:

• Aaron Reeves, Associate Professorial Research Fellow in Poverty and Inequality, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

Moderator:

• Bruno Rivalan, Global Health Advocates Panelists:

• Mariam Claeson, Director General, Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman Every Child

• Lusungu Dzinkambani, Governance Program Manager, Oxfam in Malawi

• Malebona Precious Matsoso, Director General of the National Department of Health, South Africa

• Dr Bocar Mamadou DAFF, Directeur Général Agence de la couverture maladie universelle Senegal, Director General of the Senegalese UHC Agency

Discussant:

• Dr Mit Philips, Health Policy and Advocacy Advisor, Medicins Sans Frontièeres

Abstract: There is global agreement that out-of- pocket payments for health punish the poorest and must be cut, but are the commonly proposed solutions for financing UHC working and do they put enough emphasis on ensuring the wealthiest shoulder their fair share of the financing burden to ensure all can access health care free at the point of use? This session will explore these questions through the perspectives of country experiences including

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Malawi, South Africa and Senegal.

Columbia 3-4

b. Equitable health financing and the law

Facilitator:

• Jean-Jacques Frere, Health Governance Advisor, USAID Panelists:

• David Clarke, Health Systems Advisor, Law and Governance, WHO

• Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• Usha Jugroop, Section 27, Director of Litigation

• Beverly Lorraine Ho. Chief, Research Division, Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines

Abstract: The law plays an important role in determining how health financing is generated, pooled, and allocated. This panel will explore how the legal environment impacts UHC, especially in enhancing equity in financing for services and limiting exclusion.

Columbia 9-10

c. Getting resources to the frontline II: What is private sector’s role?

Moderator:

• Maureen Lewis, CEO & CO-Founder, Aceso Global Panelists:

• Ruth Kagia, Advisor to the president, Government of Kenya

• Matthew Guilford, Telenor Health of Bangladesh

• TBD, Private sector representative with GFF

Discussant:

• Allyala Nandakumar, Chief economist, US Department of States, OGAC

Abstract: Building on the plenary session on Getting Resources to the Frontline, this session acknowledges that the private sector is a critical actor in delivering health care services to consumers. With a focus on the serving the needs of the poor and vulnerable, the discussion will facilitate exchange on the merits and demerits of working through the private sector with an aim to highlight implications for policy formulation.

Columbia 11-12 d. Immunization as a trailblazer towards UHC: using health financing policy levers to achieve

equitable immunization outcomes

Moderator:

• Dr. Logan Brenzel, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Panelists:

• Dr. Anil Jasinghe, Director General of Health Services, Sri Lanka

• Dr. Maria Concepcion Steta Gandara, Senior Social Protection Specialist, World Bank Group and Former Director of Evaluation, Prospera Program, Mexico

• Dr. Victor Ndiforchu, National PBF Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Cameroon

Abstract: Immunization coverage is often higher than coverage of other UHC interventions and can therefore provide a platform for making progress towards UHC. However, there are important health financing decisions that need to be taken to ensure equity of immunization and other UHC interventions. This session focuses in particular on decisions related to resource allocation and purchasing.

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Columbia 2 e. Is Performance-based Financing Equity Enhancing? Evidence from World Bank Impact Evaluations Moderator:

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Abstract: 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?

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

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

Universal Health Coverage Flagship Event: Towards Universal Health Coverage: Tackling the Crisis in Health Financing to End Poverty

Abstract: This flagship event, co-hosted in partnership with the Government of Japan and the World Health Organization, will look at how countries are pursuing reforms and investments, building political commitment and going beyond business as usual to ensure that all people receive needed quality health services without financial hardship. Part of the World Bank Group -International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings 2018, the event aims to drive sustained country and global commitment to attain UHC by 2030.

17:30 – 18:30 Reception World Bank

Main Campus Building:

Wolfensohn Atrium