Setting the Scene: EMRO’s Approach to achieving UHC and Health Security through the 7 Regional Priorities outlined in RC69

Facilitated by: Dr Shannon Barkley, UHC Health Policy Adviser, Palestine WCO

[Presentation] Setting the Scene: EMRO’s Approach to achieving UHC and Health Security through the 7 Regional Priorities outlined in RC69

• Dr Awad Mataria, Director, UHS, WHO EMRO
• Dr Richard Brennan, Director, WHE, WHO EMRO

[Presentation] Health Systems Resilience: Conceptualization and Operationalization

• Dr David Bishai, Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

[Presentation] What does UHC mean in the context of emergency?

• Prof Karl Blanchet, Director, Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Academic Director of InZone

[Panel discussion] Examples of good practice/country experience in relation to the seven regional priorities

Moderator:

• Dr Rudi Eggers, Director, UHC/IHS, WHO HQ

Panelists:

• Regional priority 1: Dr Mohamed Jama, Senior policy advisor, Ministry of Health, Federal Government of Somalia
• Regional priority 2: Dr Randa Hamadeh, Head of the Primary Healthcare and Social Health Department and the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon
• Regional priority 3: Dr Zafar Mirza, Prof of Health System & Population Health School of Universal Health Coverage Global Institute of Human Development, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad
• Regional priority 4: Dr Hossein Farshidi, Deputy Minister for Public Health
• Regional priority 5: Dr Asma Fikri, Research & Development Expert, MOHP, UAE
• Regional priority 6: Dr. Magdy Bakr is the advisor of the Egypt Healthcare Authority Chairman on Technical Affairs & WHO Health System Consultant
• Regional Priority 7: Dr Alissar Rady, Team Lead, Lebanon WCO

[TEDTalk & Infographic] PHC for UHC Week

• Dr Hassan Salah, Regional Advisor, Primary and Community Health Care, WHO/EMRO.