Please join the Primary Health Care Strategy Group for a roundtable discussion on:

Building blocks for change: Strengthening Primary Health Care systems for UHC

More than 400 million people continue their struggle to access one or more essential health services. Efforts to address these challenges and deliver an integrated, people-centered system of care will require a primary health care systems approach. This broader view of health systems strengthening includes strengthening preventative health services, community health, and robust frontline service delivery to break through access barriers and achieve universal health coverage. This session will launch new research, and feature successful strategies and innovative partnerships that lead to country-driven scale up and lasting impact.

Featuring:

• Nii Ankonu Annorbah-Sarpei, Programme Manager, Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights, Ghana

• Dr. J. Koku Awoonor-Williams, Director, Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ghana Health Services, Ghana

• Dr. Lola Dare, President and Chief Executive, CHESTRAD International, Nigeria

• Dr. Angela Gichaga, Chief Executive Officer, Financing Alliance for Health, Kenya

• Victor Lansana Koroma, Executive Director, Health-Alert, Sierra Leone

• Mark Suzman, Chief Strategy Officer and President, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (to be confirmed)

• Gabrielle Szabo, Health Policy and Advocacy Adviser, Save the Children UK

• Beth Tritter, Executive Director, Primary Health Care Performance Initiative

• Deputy Minister Yah Zolia, Policy and Planning, Liberia Ministry of Health, Liberia

This 2017 UHC Forum side event is open to all. Lunch will be provided.

Please contact Ariana Childs Graham at a.childsgraham@pai.org with any questions.