Improving health by strengthening healthcare financing in the Asia Pacific
Perspectives & Insights
SESSION DETAILS
Tuesday 23 April, 11am - 12:30pm AEST
Breakout 2
Strengthening healthcare financing in Asia-pacific countries is essential to ensure access to evidence- based cost-effective healthcare, achieving universal health insurance coverage, and improving the health and wellbeing of populations.
This session will discuss the overarching economic issues in strengthening healthcare financing, perspectives from countries in the Asia-Pacific, and the potential role of innovative healthcare funding mechanisms to ensure the provision of high value (cost-effective) healthcare.
SESSION DESCRIPTION
SESSION MODERATOR
Anthony Scott
Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
Lluis Vinyals Torres
Director, Division of Health Systems and Services, World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office
SESSION CHAIR
Atonio Rabici Lalabalavu
Minister of Health and Medical Services, Fiji Government
Ajay Tandon
Lead Economist, World Bank, Washington DC
Inez Mikkelsen-Lopez
Senior Health Specialist, Asian Development Bank
Tiara Marthias
Lecturer in Global Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
Rohan Sweeney
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
Cathy Mihalopoulos
Head, Monash University Health Economics Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
INVITED SPEAKERS
We gratefully acknowledge the following organisations for providing travel and accommodation support for international speakers in this session.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
