DRAFT AGENDA

DAY 1 – Thursday April 14, 2016

0800-0900 / Arrival & Registration / Breakfast
0900-0925 / Welcome, Opening Remarks
Keith Hansen, Vice President for Human Development (WB)
Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Assistant Administrator for Global Health (USAID) tbc
0925-0945 / Setting the Scene : A New Era of Health Financing
Christoph Kurowski, Global Lead Health Financing (WB)
0945-1100 / Mobilizing Public Financing for Health
Moderator: Joseph Kutzin, Coordinator Health Financing Policy (WHO)
Jeremias Paul, Under Secretary of Finance (Philippines)
Jeanette Vega, CEO National Health Insurance Fund (Chile)
Nat Otoo, CEO National Health Insurance Fund (Ghana)
Henri YavMulang, Minister of Finance (Democratic Republic of Congo) tbc
Victoria Perry, Assistant Director of Fiscal Affairs Departmentand Division Chief of Tax Policy Division (IMF)
1100-1130 / Coffee Break
1130-1245 / Making the Case for Health: Prioritizing Health in Public Budgets
Moderator: Phil Hay, Communications Adviser, Development Economics (WB)
Mark Blecher, Director of National Treasury (South Africa)
Bernice Dahn, Minister of Health (Republic of Liberia)
Tanel Ross, Chairman of the Management Board, Health Insurance Fund (Estonia)
Chris Murray, Professor and IHME Director (IHME) tbc
Isaac FolorunsoAdewole, Minister of Health (Nigeria)
Agnes Soucat,Director, Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing (WHO)
Ray Offenheiser, President (OXFAM America)
1245- 1400 / Lunch
1400- 1500 / Parallel sessions:
  1. Making and using future health spending and health burden estimates for advocacy and long-term financial planning
Chris Murray, Professor and IHME Director (IHME)
Joe Dieleman, Assistant Professor (IHME)
  1. SIBs and DIBs as financing instruments to contribute to UHC
  2. Managing the health sector wage bill
  3. The Global Financing Facility: An opportunity to reenergize the UHC financing agenda

1500-1600 / Parallel Sessions:
  1. Sin tax: Maximizing health while mobilizing revenues for UHC
Chair: Jim Brumby, Director of Governance Global Practice (WB) tbc
Frank Chaloupka, Professor of Economics (University of Illinois-Chicago) tbc
Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Lead Economist Macro-Fiscal Global Practice (WB)
Anne-Marie Perucic, Economist Tobacco Free Initiative (WHO) tbc
Bill Savedoff, Senior Fellow (CGD) tbc
  1. Domestic resource mobilization in global health security
Mukesh Chawla, Head of Knowledge Management in the Human Development Network (HDN) at the World Bank tbc
Peter Sands, Former Group CEO of Standard Chartered PLC; Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Rebecca Fish, Vice President, Biodefense Division Emergent BioSolutions
Ministers of Finance TBD
Patrick Kelley, Director of Board on Global Health, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  1. The Equitable Access Initiative
Sanjeev Gupta, Deputy Director Fiscal Affairs Department (IMF)
Chris Murray, Professor and IHME Director (IHME)
Harley Feldbaum, Head Policy and Strategy Hub (GF)
John McArthur (Brookings) tbc
John Arne-Rottingen (NIPH) tbc
  1. Aligning and leveraging domestic and external financing to accelerate progress toward epidemic control and universal health coverage

1600-1630 / Coffee Break
1630-1730 / Parallel Sessions:
  1. New JLN track on innovative financing
  2. Anti-corruption approaches: Strengthening governance and accountability in the health sector
  3. Financing for health in humanitarian settings
  4. Global health economics and public policy: recent evidence on health spending, economic growth, and the macro-fiscal outlook for health
VinayaSwaroop, Lead Economist Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management (WB)
Richard Scheffler, Professor (University of California-Berkeley)
Joseph Kutzin, Coordinator Health Financing Policy (WHO)
Edit Velenyi, Economist (WB)
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DAY 2 – Friday April 15, 2016

0900-0930 / Keynote
tbc
0930-1045 / Changing the Approach of Development Assistance in the Face of Increasing Domestic Resources
Moderator: Eric Postel, Associate Administrator, USAID
Felix KabangeNumbiMukwampa, Minister of Health (DRC) tbc
Neil Cole, Executive Secretary (CABRI)
Chris Elias, President of Global Development (GATES) tbc
UntungSusenoSoetardjo, Secretary General, Ministry of Health (Indonesia)
Kae Yanagisawa, Vice President(JICA)
1045-1115 / Coffee Break
1115-1230 / Harnessing the Potential of the Private Sector
Moderator: Khama Rogo, Lead Health Sector Specialist (WB)
Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of Health (Senegal)
Marcus Lisboa (former MOF) or Carlos OctavioOcke-Reis, (Brazil) tbc
Paul Farmer, Co-Founder (Partners in Health) tbc
(Royal Philips) tbc
1230-1330 / Lunch
1330-1430 / Looking Ahead – Setting the Agenda for the Next AUHCFF
1430-1515 / Summary of the Forum
1515-1530 / Closing Remarks
Tim Evans, Senior Director for Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice (WB)
1530-1630 / Reception

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