NCDs are the world’s number one killer, yet health systems are chronically underfunded to tackle this biggest burden. NCD services in least developed countries remain patchy and sporadic, with a need for sustainable financing mechanisms to guarantee NCD entitlements for all through appropriate planning, defining of essential health service packages, prioritizing a guaranteed benefit package, ensuring access to medicines and technology, a skilled workforce and robust data to support clinical care and counselling. This webinar session will convene health and finance experts to unpack the design and politics of financing NCD and health services, share country realities, and explore how to leverage domestic and international funding to cover catastrophic health expenditures posed by NCDs, answering the hard questions of how to finance resilient health systems of tomorrow.
Speakers:
Dr Bente Mikkelsen, Director, WHO NCD Department
Dr Temo Waqanivalu, Unit head, WHO NCD Integrated Service Delivery
Dr Agnes Soucat, Director, WHO Health Governance and Finance
Mr Antonio Lambino, Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Philippines
Ms Ntombi Ginindza, NCD Clinical Management Unit, Ministry of Health, Eswatini
Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim, Dept. of Global Public Health and Primary care, University of Bergen
Dr Rachel Nugent, Vice President, Global NCDs, RTI
Mr Bent Lautrup-Nielsen, Head of Global Development and Advocacy, World Diabetes Foundation
Ms Florence Berteletti, Advocacy Director, World Heart Federation,
Dr Bruno Meessen, Senior Adviser HGF, WHO