Global Health & Universal Health Coverage

Geneva, from 15 to 19 April 2024 , 2 ECTS

REGISTRATION DEADLINE 29/03/2024

COURSE WEEK STRUCTURE

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a critical goal for nations worldwide, aiming to ensure that all people have access to essential health services without suffering financial hardship. This five-day course explores the multifaceted aspects of UHC, emphasizing global health governance and the essential building blocks that contribute to the realization of this important goal. This intense course week is structured in two parts:

Part 1, 15 to 17 April : Global Health: intertwined governance, programs and financing
Part 2, 18 and 19 April : Advancing Universal Health Coverage: important perspectives on access and essential health services

ORGANIZERS

Jinkou Zhao, MD PhD MSc, Senior Specialist, Impact and Evaluation, Global Fund, Part 1
Fleur Hierink, PhD, lecturer, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Part 2
Nathalie Bot, PhD, lecturer, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Part 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION and SCHEDULE

Part 1, 15 to 17 April : Global Health: intertwined governance, programs and financing

This course will provide the participants with basic but contemporary knowledge and practices of the global health by primary global health organizations. The participants will acquire common understanding in the practices in the areas of global health programs, global health determinants, financing, governance and diplomacy the opportunities to discuss and interact with global experts in various areas from global health organizations.

Part 2, 18 and 19 April : Advancing Universal Health Coverage: important perspectives on access and essential health services

In the second part of the week, students will learn about a multi-partner platform called UHC2030 aimed at: “accelerating sustainable progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), focusing on building equitable and resilient health systems that leave no one behind and that provide the foundation to achieve health security”. Students will also have a session on the geographical aspects of UHC, particularly focusing on how people access healthcare and how to measure it. Additionally, there will be a session where Afghanistan will be used as an example to discuss how a basic set of essential health services is developed.

Moreover, students will engage in hands-on group work focused on a country or region of their choice. Each group will target a specific country or context to identify significant gaps in Universal Health Coverage (UHC), whether financial, equity, access, or quality-related. As part of this exercise, each group will gather pertinent documents and analyze the health system and health policies of their chosen context. At the end of the week, each group will present their findings on the identified UHC gap.

DATES, SCHEDULE AND VENUE

15th to 19th April 2024:
- Monday 8:30 am to 6pm
- Tuesday 8:30 am to 6 pm
- Wednesday from 1:30 pm to 6pm
- Thursday 9 am to 5 pm + social event (Fondue from 7pm)
- Friday 9 am to 3pm
Biotech Campus, Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, exact classroom (s) will be available with the detailed agenda

CREDITS AND FEES

2 ECTS (registration opened to graduates with a master's degree)

Lunches, coffe breaks and a social event are included in the fees

CHF 700 for SSPH+ members, UNIGE or HES-SO members and partner institutions.
CHF 1400 for externals

Invited speakers

Jinkou Zhao

Dr Jinkou Zhao is a senior specialist for impact and evaluation at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He was a senior advisor at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the chief for strategic information at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He worked in endemic diseases, non-communicable chronic diseases, infectious diseases and malnutrition at Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He teaches epidemiology and global health, and supervise master’s and PhD students in various universities in China and Europe. He published more than 260 peer reviewed journal articles.

https://faculty.dukekunshan.edu.cn/faculty_profiles/jinkou-zhao; https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinkou-button-zhao-65847246/?originalSubdomain=ch

Nina Schwalbe

Nina Schwalbe founded Spark Street in 2016. She has held numerous leadership positions including at USAID, Gavi, the vaccine alliance, UNICEF and the Open Society Foundation. She holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and is on the faculty at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Principal Visiting Fellow at the United Nations International Institute for Global Health and a Commissioner for the Lancet on gender and health. Nina lives in New York City and has written about COVID-19 and the Pandemic Accord in Lancet, the Lancet Global Health, British Medical Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly and the Foreign Policy, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Schwalbe

Yoshinobu Nagamine

Yoshinobu Nagamine is a Senior Manager at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance mobilising government and private resources to protect children from vaccine preventable diseases. Passionate about leveraging innovation & technology in global health and sourcing financial & political capital for impact. During the C19 pandemic, he was part of COVAX, the global procurement mechanism of C19 vaccines for developing countries with a focus on Africa. Previously with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for 10 years assisting war victims in DRC and Afghanistan. Founded and headed the ICRC office in Japan. As a researcher, he interviewed Taliban members and wrote a book on how to ensure compliance with humanitarian law by non-state actors.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoshinobunagamine/?originalSubdomain=ch

Steven Ramsden

Steven Ramsden is Chief Information Security Officer and Digital Innovation/Enterprise Architecture at The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria based in Geneva, Switzerland. Steve has a passion for sustainability, global health and education and supports the University of Geneva SDG Solution lab, to support open innovation in frontier technologies including, WEB3, Quantum, AI, blockchain and privacy preserving technologies to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goal’s. Before joining Global Fund Steve held senior management positions within UK Government, responsible for security and designs for UK Government’s digital transformation.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-ramsden-1410089/

Nicolas Ray

Prof. Nicolas Ray heads the GeoHealth group of the Institute of Global Health & the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva (unige.ch/geohealth). He leads the doctoral program in Global Health. His research is about developing and applying geospatial methods to optimise health resources allocation in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on models of physical accessibility to health services. His team develops and maintain the open source WHO software AccessMod.

Nicolas Ray - INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL HEALTH - UNIGE

Laetitia Bosio

Laetitia Bosio (she/her) is a global health professional with over 13 years of experience in policy and strategy development, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement. She is currently working as the Program Manager for Policy, Advocacy, and Partnerships at UHC2030, an multistakeholder platform aiming to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage worldwide, co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Her primary responsibility is to lead strategic advocacy and political influencing activities, working closely with key UHC stakeholders. She led the development of the Action Agenda from the UHC Movement released in March 2023, ahead of the UN High-level meeting on UHC.

Laetitia Bosio – Program Manager, Policy, Advocacy and Partnerships | UHC2030 Core Team – World Health Organization | LinkedIn

Antony Mounts

Dr. Anthony (Tony) Mounts, MD trained in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine with a subspecialization in adult Infectious Diseases. He joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1997 and spent the next 25 years with CDC working on a wide range of international public health issues including polio eradication in Pakistan, influenza control at WHO Headquarters, and Global Health Security in Vietnam. Dr. Mounts joined the Task Force for Global Health in March of 2022 where he leads the COVID19 Vaccine Implementation Program and provides technical support for the Early Warning Surveillance Development Project.

https://www.taskforce.org/who-is-tony-mounts/

Wahid Majrooh

Dr. Wahid Majrooh served as the last Minister of Health for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, following his previous roles as Deputy Minister for Healthcare Service Delivery, Senior International Relations Advisor, and Technical Advisor to the Health Minister. With a diverse background spanning national and international institutions such as the Afghan Government, U.S. Embassy, USAID, UNDP, EU, and the World Bank, Dr. Majrooh brings over 15 years of experience to his endeavors. A Medical Doctor by profession, Dr. Majrooh holds dual Master's degrees in Global Health Policy from LSHTM, Political Science and will obtain (May 2024) his third Master degree in International Security from GCSP/UNIGE. Currently, Dr. Majrooh serves on the WHO's Executive Board, having previously held roles as 1st Vice Chair of the WHO Executive Board and alternate Board Member at GAVI. He is also the Founder and CEO of the Afghanistan Center for Health and Peace Studies, based in Geneva. As an Academic Fellow at the Geneva Humanitarian Studies Center since June 2023, Dr. Majrooh focuses on research initiatives to provide an insider's perspective on health system resilience in the field.

Jeffrey McFarland

Jeffrey McFarland is an American public health physician who has worked since 1991 focusing on the prevention, detection, response to and control of infectious diseases, particularly vaccine preventable diseases. Dr McFarland has worked at U.S. CDC in Atlanta, Beijing and Hanoi, WHO in Manila and New Delhi and UNICEF in New York City. He is currently working at Gavi. While the work covered all vaccine preventable diseases, it focused primarily on measles, rubella, and influenza. Dr McFarland graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School and completed clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Columbia University’s St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. He also completed the U.S. CDC EIS training program and preventive medicine residency.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-mcfarland-7a399215/

Austin Liu

Austin Liu is a health policy researcher with experience in several global health organizations. He is currently a policy analyst at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), where he developed and implemented a framework to analyze health and finance policy drivers and drive engagement with partners in the pandemic preparedness and response ecosystem. Prior to that, he was a manager in the Public Policy Engagement team at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where he managed policy and partnership projects on primary health care, health financing, and pandemic preparedness and response. He was part of the country engagement team that helped secure political and financial commitments for the establishment of COVAX in 2020. He also worked in the Coordinated Resource Mobilization team in the Director General’s Office of the World Health Organization. Previously, he served as a researcher at the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute in Geneva, where he obtained a master’s in development studies, and is a published author in global health governance and diplomacy.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-liu/

Joseph Chiu

Joseph Chiu is a senior advisor on global health strategy, policy and governance. Joseph has advised public, private, community and civil society policymakers on their participation in the governing bodies of global health institutions. He has led strategy development, implementation planning and governance reform across the WHO’s Regional Office for Africa, global health partnerships and non-governmental organizations. Previously, Joseph managed legal, policy and governance matters at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-chiu-9820b4a/?originalSubdomain=ch

Daniel Argaw Dagne

Dr Daniel Argaw Dagne is currently the Unit Head for Prevention, Treatment and Care, in the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the WHO, Geneva. Prior to this, he was coordinator of the Innovative and Intensified Disease Management Unit and Head of the global leishmaniasis control program in the same department. He has worked as lead for the Disease Prevention and Control team in WHO Ethiopia and as director of disease surveillance, control and health programs at various level of the Ministry of Health system in Ethiopia. He is a physician with specialization in tropical medicine and public health. He has received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Addis Ababa University and master’s degree in public health from University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has completed several post graduate studies in infectious & tropical diseases epidemiology, surveillance, control and other public health fields in different universities in Japan, China, Germany and the Swiss Tropical Institute. He has contributed in over 60 publications and research works on international journals and book chapters on a range of health topics including leishmaniasis, malaria, human African trypanosomiasis, skin and other NTDs, HIV, tuberculosis, health systems and reproductive health topics.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-argaw-dagne-8a24a134/

Victoria Fan

Victoria Fan is a senior fellow in global health at CGD and conducts research on a variety of topics such as pandemic preparedness, aid effectiveness, and health systems and financing. Fan joins CGD after being at the University of Hawaii (UH) for eight years, where she served as associate professor and interim director of the Center on Aging. During her time at the UH, she established a research lab called the Pacific Health Analytics Collaborative, which worked to address social determinants of health and mental health, while working to increase capacity of the local government workforce through public university partnerships. She was also the chair of the Hawaii Pandemic Applied Modeling (HIPAM) Work Group, and ran a 24/7 call center for behavioral health and isolation & quarantine for the state of Hawaii during the pandemic.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriafan/

Johannes Hunger

Johannes Hunger is the Chief Advisor and Head of Special Projects at the Global Fund. Since their introduction as part of the Global Fund's Fifth Replenishment campaign in 2015, Johannes has spearheaded the development of all Global Fund investment cases to date. Over the last three replenishment cycles, these investment cases have supported the mobilization of over 40 billion US dollars. Prior to his current role, he served as the Head of Strategic Information and Senior Manager for Strategy and Policy. Among many other priorities, Johannes has led the development and implementation of the Global Fund's first allocation model in 2012 and oversaw the production of annual results reports and the setting of strategic targets for the Global Fund. Before joining the Global Fund in 2007, Johannes worked at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on the development and implementation of growth and investment strategies. He also served as a junior professor at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, where he authored several articles on artificial intelligence approaches to molecular modeling and on the philosophy of science. Johannes holds a PhD and a Master of Science in Computational Chemistry, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy of Science.

Allen Maina

Dr. Allen Maina is a Public Health specialist with close to two decades work experience, having worked for the Ministry of Health, NGOs and with UNHCR operations primarily in Africa, Europe and Asia, and currently as Chief of Public Health Section in UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He has vast experience in policy development, research, multi-stakeholder engagement and coordinating strategic and program implementation on public health.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-g-k-maina-5b4807b1/?originalSubdomain=ch

Ross Leach

Ross Leach is Team Lead (Corporate Performance and Impact) at Unitaid, a hosted partnership of the World Health Organization. In his current role, Ross leads the Impact team, with responsibility for the performance management of Unitaid's US$ 1.5 billion portfolio of grants. He has over 15 years’ experience in using evidence to inform strategic decision-making, having previously worked as a UK government economist at DFID and the Department of Health (England). Ross holds Economics degrees from Heriot-Watt University (MA (Hons)) and The University of Edinburgh (MSc.), and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-leach-9655a62/?originalSubdomain=ch

Ke Xu

Ke Xu is Senior Health Financing and expenditure Analyst at WHO and leads the WHO Health Accounts team. Before taking on this role, she served as a coordinator for Health Policy and Financing in WHO's Western Pacific Region, providing support to countries in the development and implementation of health financing and governance policies. Her over 20 years of experience at WHO began with the development of the conceptual framework and measurements of catastrophic health expenditure and the poverty impact of out-of-pocket payment. Her technical expertise and extensive experience in supporting countries have shaped her into a passionate advocate for evidence-informed policy making. She is dedicated to advancing health accounts as a global public good.

Joseph Kutzin

Joseph Kutzin is a health economist with nearly 40 years’ experience, working in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and the United States. He worked for the World Bank and a private health policy foundation before joining WHO in 1994. With WHO, he served in several capacities since joining Headquarters as a health financing specialist: in Kyrgyzstan as Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Health, in Copenhagen and Barcelona as the European Region’s lead advisor on health financing, and from 2011 to 2023, in Geneva as lead of the Health Financing Team globally. He has published numerous conceptual and empirical articles and book chapters on health systems, health financing and Universal Health Coverage in European as well as in low and middle-income countries. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Semmelweis University in Budapest in 2012 and has been a Senior Fellow with Results for Development, Inc. since his retirement from WHO in April 2023.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-kutzin-34015514/?originalSubdomain=ch

Aleksandar Arnikov

Aleksandar Arnikov is a medical doctor and a public health practitioner with 25 years of experience. He is currently based in IOM’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, overseeing the agency’s Health Promotion and Migrants Assistance pillar. He joined IOM in 2014 and has since worked as a Regional Migration Health Officer and Regional Thematic Specialist on Migration Health in East and Southern Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Before IOM, he worked with the Global Fund, UNICEF, and the World Bank.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandar-arnikov-31995063/?originalSubdomain=ch

Helene Hewitt

Professor Helene Hewitt studied Mathematics at University of Cambridge and received a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Southampton. She has worked at the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services for 28 years, most recently as a Science Fellow. She was a coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report and now leads the international Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. She was awarded an OBE for services to Climate Science in 2022. She is a visiting professor at the University of Geneva.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Hewitt

Harley Feldbaum

Harley Feldbaum is Head of Strategy and Policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He leads development of the Global Fund’s Strategy and strategic direction, revisions to the Fund’s allocation model for greater impact, oversees the Fund's Key Performance Indicators and internal performance metrics, and coordinates Secretariat and Board-level decision-making on critical policies from fragile states to sustainability to climate change. Previously, he served for over 2 years as the Director for Global Health, Food Security and Development at the National Security Council. He was a 2010-2011 White House Fellow and Senior Public Health Advisor at the United States Agency for International Development. Prior, Harley served as Director of the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative and a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Harley also served as an author and senior consultant to the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and is a Fellow with the Truman National Security Project. Prior to Johns Hopkins, Harley consulted for the Nuffield Trust on health and security issues, was a program associate with the California Endowment, and worked as an interviewer and analyst on the Baltimore City needle exchange vans. Harley was a Luce Scholar in Chiang Mai Thailand, worked in the Nagatyad refugee camp with refugees from the Bosnian War, and volunteered for 3 years with the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team on Mount Snowdon in North Wales. Harley received a Ph.D. in public health policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harley-feldbaum-0425a54/?originalSubdomain=ch

Antoine Flahault

Professor Antoine Flahault MD, PhD in biomathematics. He was appointed as full professor of public health in 2002. He was the founding director of the French School of Public Health (EHESP, Rennes, 2007-2012). In January 2014, he was appointed as full professor of public health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva where he is the founding director of the Institute of Global Health. He has been elected as the Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health in Zürich en 2023. He has been president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), co-director of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA), and president of the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA).

Antoine Flahault - INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL HEALTH - UNIGE

Stéphanie Dagron

Stéphanie Dagron is a professor of law at the University of Geneva, teaching international, european and national health and social security law. She has been named Professor at the law Faculty in February 2016 and at the medical Faculty in March 2019. French by nationality, she holds a PhD in International and European law from the universities of Poitiers (France) and Saarbrücken (Germany). She has worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck-Institute for International Law and Comparative Public Law and at the Faculty of law in Heidelberg and as a lecturer at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. Between 2009 and 2013, Stéphanie was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich. Between 2013 and 2019, Stéphanie was also a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor working on a large-scale research project entitled “juridification of global health concerns: implications for health prevention, treatment and health systems”. Since 2013, Stéphanie has also been practicing international law in her work as a consultant for WHO in the field of tuberculosis and human rights.

Stéphanie Dagron - INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL HEALTH - UNIGE