2009 Regional Ministerial Meeting
on “Financing Strategies for Health Care”
16-18 March 2009
Colombo, Sri Lanka
PROGRAMME
16 March 2009 | |
8:00 a.m. | Registration |
Opening Session | |
9:00 a.m. | Welcoming remarks: |
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H.E. Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka |
9:10 a.m. |
Address by H.E. Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition, Sri Lanka |
Keynote address: |
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H.E. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka |
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Opening remarks: |
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9:35 a.m. | H.E. Ambassador Hamidon Ali, VicePresident, United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) |
9:45 a.m. | Mr. Thomas Steltzer, Assistant-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) |
9:55 a.m. | Dr. Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Deputy Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) |
10:05 a.m. | Tea Break |
Session I: Financing strategies for health care | |
11:05 a.m. | Statement by Ms. Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific (UNESCAP) (delivered by Ms. Thelma Kay, Chief, Social Development Division, UNESCAP) |
11:15 a.m. |
Panel 1: Domestic financing for health care |
Moderator: Professor Weligamage D. Lakshman, Professor of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka | |
Panelists: |
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Dr. Rashid Jooma,
Director General,
Ministry of Health, Pakistan |
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H.E. Mrs. Tsolmon Jadamba, Vice-Minister of Health, Mongolia |
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Dr. David B. Evans, Director, Department of Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization (WHO) | |
For discussion: |
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1:15 p.m. | Lunch break |
2:15 p.m. | Panel 2: External financing for health care |
Moderator: Dr. David B. Evans, Director, Department of Health Systems Financing (HSF), World Health Organization (WHO) | |
Panelists: | |
Mr. Shinichi Asazuma, Senior Coordinator, Global Issues Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan | |
Dr. Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Director & Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Colombo |
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Ms. Ursula Schäfer-Preuss, Vice President, Asian Development Bank | |
Mr. Pablo Gottret, Lead Economist, Human Development Sector Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank | |
Dr. Jorge Bermudez, Executive Secretary, UNITAID | |
Mr. Simon Wright, Project Manager, Action for Global Health, Brussels | |
For discussion: |
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Session II: Health systems in crisis situations | |
4:15 p.m. | Panel 3: Challenges for health systems in countries in or following crisis |
Moderator: Dr. Poonam Singh, Deputy Regional Director, Regional Office for South-East Asia, WHO | |
Panelists: |
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Dr. H. A. P. Kahandaliyanage, Secretary, Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition, Sri Lanka | |
Dr. Ahmad Jan Naeem, Acting General Director, Policy and Planning, Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan | |
Mr. Nicholas Rosellini, Deputy Regional Director, United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), Bangkok, Thailand | |
Dr. Roderico Ofrin, Regional Adviser, Emergency and Humanitarian Action, WHO Regional office , New Delhi | |
Mr. Chinnaswamy Kumar, Technical Support Coordinator – Micro Insurance, CARE India | |
For discussion: | |
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6:30 p.m. | Meeting adjourns |
7:30 p.m. | Leave Cinnamon Grand Hotel to Mount Lavinia |
8:00 pm | Dinner Hosted by H.E Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka, at the Mount Lavinia Hotel |
17 March 2009 | |
Session III: Initiatives and recommendations | |
9:00 a.m. | Presentations of best practices and new initiatives to finance health care |
Chair: Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Deputy Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) | |
Presentations by: | |
United Nations agencies, governments, NGOs, corporations, foundations, | |
Mr. Kewal Handa, Managing Director, Pfizer India | |
Mr. Robert Filipp, Head Innovative Financing, The Global Fund
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Dr. Thomas Teuscher, Coordinator for Policy, Strategies and Governance, RollBackMalaria Partnership, Geneva | |
Dr. David B. Evans, Director, Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva | |
Dr. Sania Nishtar, President and CEO, Heartfile, Pakistan | |
Dr. Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Director & Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Colombo | |
Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany, Director, Institute for Social Security, University of Indonesia, Indonesia [book in pdf] | |
Dr. Kiyotaka Segami, Executive Board-Director, Welfare and Medical Service Agency (WAM), Japan | |
10:30 a.m. |
Discussion on key messages to be delivered to the Economic and Social Council and next steps to be taken in the region |
Chair: H.E. Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition, Sri Lanka | |
Reports from Moderators: | |
Professor Weligamage D. Lakshman, Professor of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka | |
Dr. David B. Evans, Director, Department of Health Systems Financing (WHO) | |
Dr. Poonam Singh, Deputy Regional Director, SEARO, WHO | |
Session IV: Progress in MDGs | |
11:30 a.m. | Panel 4: Progress and Challenges in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals |
Moderator: Dr. Aminath Jameel, Minister of Health and Family, Maldives (TBC) | |
Panelists: | |
Mr H M Gunasekera, Director National Planning, Ministry of Finance and Planning | |
H.E. Mr. Abdalmahmood Abdalhleem Mohamad, Permanent Representative of Sudan to the UN ( Chair of the Group of 77 and China) | |
Ms. Purnima Mane, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | |
Mr. Bernard Savage, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Sri Lanka and the Maldives | |
For discussion: |
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Closing Statements: |
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12:30 p.m. | Mr. Thomas Steltzer, Assistant-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) |
H.E. Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka | |
1:00 p.m. | Meeting adjourns/Lunch |
Press Conference to follow immediately after the adjournment of the Conference (on invitation only) |
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Field visit to Kandy |