Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: Peer-to-Peer Learning Workshop
Finding Solutions to Common Challenges
Resources
Agenda
Pre-reading
- Health Insurance Handbook – World Bank
- Attacking Inequality in the Health Sector
- Health Insurance at a Glance in Africa
Country Profiles
- Benin – Health Financing Profile: Benin
- Côte d’Ivoire – Health Financing Profile: Côte d'Ivoire
- Ethiopia – Health Financing Profile: Ethiopia
- Ghana – Health Insurance Profile: Ghana
- Nigeria – Health Financing Profile: Nigeria
- Rwanda – Health Insurance Profile: Rwanda
- Senegal – Health Financing Profile: Senegal
- Togo – Health Financing Profile: Togo
- Uganda – Health Financing Profile: Uganda
Day 1 | The UHC Context: Increasing Financial Protection and Access to Services in Mixed (Public/Private) Health Systems
- Opening Session
- Objectives, Expectations, and Introductions
Ishrat Husain, USAID/Washington and Amanda Folsom, Results for Development/HFG
- Objectives, Expectations, and Introductions
- Setting the Stage
- Keynote: Economic Transitions in Health and UHC in Africa
Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID/Washington - Overview of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
Nathaniel Otoo, Acting CEO, National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Ghana - Covering the Poor and Ensuring More Equitable Health Financing
Abdo Yazbeck, Lead Health Economist, World Bank
- Keynote: Economic Transitions in Health and UHC in Africa
- Financial Protection and Access to Care: In Theory and Practice
- Practical concepts and strategies to increase and maintain financial protection and access to health care
Laurent Musango, WHO AFRO - Improving health coverage for the poor in Mexico: the role of Seguro Popular
Adolfo Martinez Valle, Mexico Ministry of Health
- Practical concepts and strategies to increase and maintain financial protection and access to health care
- Commitment Generation and Behavioral Economics: Redistribution and Solidarity
- Introduction to behavioral economics and application in UHC
Abdo Yazbeck, World Bank - Behavioral economics in action in Ghana
Christine Papai, Innovations in Poverty Action (IPA) – Ghana
- Introduction to behavioral economics and application in UHC
Day 2 | Raising Resources for Health and Managing Expenditures to Increase Equity
- Health Financing for UHC: “Two Sides of the Coin”
- Health Financing for UHC – two sides of the coin
Joe Kutzin, WHO
- Health Financing for UHC – two sides of the coin
- How to Mobilize Domestic Resources for Health
- Mobilizing Domestic Resources for Health
Bob Fryatt, Director of USAID HFG Project and Susna De, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Earmarking: What are the key study questions?
Danielle Bloom, R4D
- Mobilizing Domestic Resources for Health
- Expenditure Management: How to Increase Efficiency and Value for Money
- Expenditure Management for UHC
Helene Barroy, WHO - Strategic Purchasing for Expenditure Management
Amanda Folsom, Program Director, Results for Development Institute - Ghana on public financial management reforms, payment mechanisms, and benefits package
Anthony Gingong, NHIA, Ghana - Performance based financing as a Strategic Purchasing mechanism: the case of Rwanda
Ina Kalisa, University of Rwanda School of Public Health - Senegal on performance-based financing
Adiaratou Ndiaye, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Senegal
- Expenditure Management for UHC
- Spotlight on Pharmaceuticals
- Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: A Spotlight on Pharmaceuticals
Kwesi Eghan, USAID SIAPS Project
- Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: A Spotlight on Pharmaceuticals
Day 3 | Spotlight on Ghana: NHIS Site Visit
Day 4 | Community Engagement, Private Actors, and Mobile Technology
- Community-Based Health Insurance – Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Evolution of CBHI towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – Achievement and Challenges
Hong Wang, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - CBHI Initiative in Ethiopia Design, Implementation and Challenges
Zelalem Abebe Segahu, Ethiopia HSFR/HFG Project - CBHI Rwanda Experiences
Therese Kunda, Management Sciences for Health Rwanda Health Systems Strengthening Project - Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Senegal: Implementation Status and Outlook
Cheikh Mbengue, UHC Agency, Senegal
- Evolution of CBHI towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – Achievement and Challenges
- The Role of Private Health Insurance in UHC
- Accelerating Universal Health Coverage: The Role of Private Health Insurance
Adeola Majiyagbe, GM Executive at Total Health Trust, Nigeria
- Accelerating Universal Health Coverage: The Role of Private Health Insurance
- Mobile Facilitated Insurance Products and Solutions
- Mobile Insurance: Implication on Health Insurance
Adjoa Boateng, MicroEnsure - Mali Micro-insurance Project: Sini Tonon
Ralph Ankri, Orange Labs - Kenya e-Wallet: Connecting people to better healthcare
Cees Hesp and Maxwell Antwi, Pharmaccess - Rwanda’s Computerization of Health Insurance Functions
Michael Karangwa, USAID/Rwanda
- Ghana NHIS Mobile Initiatives
Thomas Adoboe, Deputy Director-Management Information Systems, NHIA
- Mobile Insurance: Implication on Health Insurance
Day 5 | Monitoring Progress, Future Planning, and Next Steps
- “Intelligent Health Systems”
- Monitoring and (especially) Evaluation for UHC
Joe Kutzin, WHO - Intelligent Health Systems – Ghana’s Journey
Lydia Dsane-Selby, NHIA - Rwanda’s HIMS System
Therese Kunda, Management Sciences for Health Rwanda Health Systems Strengthening Project
- Monitoring and (especially) Evaluation for UHC
- Generating Ideas for Future Learning and Action
