Webinar: Financing primary health care: insights from Brazil, Ghana, and Philippines, 24 May

13 May, 2022

Webinar, 24 May, Financing primary health care: insights from Brazil, Ghana, and Philippines

Dear Colleagues

Please do join us on Tuesday 24 May 2022 at 11:00 UTC for a webinar with The Lancet Global Health Commissioning on Financing Primary Health Care and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK.

https://odi.org/en/events/financing-primary-health-care-putting-people-a...

Building on the findings of The Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing Primary Health Care, this webinar will examine some of the country case studies - Brazil, Ghana, and the Philippines - that the Commission on drew on, and explore two key themes:

how budget and public finance systems can support the vision of PHC the commission outlined;

and how PHC financing functions in multi-level systems of governance.

The webinar will feature a panel of speakers:

Eugenia Amporfu

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Leizel Lagrada-Rombaua

Consultant on Governance and Hospital Management, GECC Development Services, Pasig City, Philippines

Adriano Massuda

Professor, School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Kara Hanson

Professor of Health System Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Chair of The Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing PHC

Tom Hart

Senior Research Fellow, ODI

Fiona Samuels (session chair)

Senior Research Fellow, ODI

Register now: https://odi.org/en/events/financing-primary-health-care-putting-people-a...

Please do share this information with colleagues and networks, if appropriate.

Tom Barker

Health and Nutrition Cluster

Institute of Development Studies

Twitter: @futurehealthsys

www.ids.ac.uk

HIFA profile: Tom Barker is Communications Manager, Health Systems Global at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Tom has 15 years’ experience working in knowledge brokering, research communication, policy engagement, and parliamentary influencing in the UK health and international development policy arenas. Tom manages a portfolio of health and nutrition projects working in Sub- Saharan Africa and Asia, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, China, India and Bangladesh, including Future Health Systems, and is currently Communications Manager for Health Systems Global. Previously Tom managed a research knowledge brokering network for the UK National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research Programme; facilitated engagements with the UK Parliament for the NHS Confederation, a membership body for NHS organisations; and ran the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health. Tom has an MSc Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.