Side Meetings

SMA304

Exemplars in Global Health – Collating Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and Health Systems Resilience

24
Jan

  • 20.00 - 22.00 HRS. (BKK)

Organizers
  • The Rockefeller Foundation
  • Johns Hopkins University, Center for Health Security
  • Gates Ventures
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This research collaboration through the Exemplars in Global Health program aims to identify and highlight countries that exhibited exemplary practices maintaining the provision of essential health services while also responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best practices and lessons learned from countries that demonstrated ‘exemplary’ practices will be collected to inform other countries’ decisions regarding response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and to generate insights to strengthen preparedness and resiliency efforts for future public health emergencies. This research collaboration through the Exemplars in Global Health program aims to identify and highlight countries that exhibited exemplary practices maintaining the provision of essential health services while also responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best practices and lessons learned from countries that demonstrated ‘exemplary’ practices will be collected to inform other countries’ decisions regarding response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and to generate insights to strengthen preparedness and resiliency efforts for future public health emergencies.

This side event will:

  • provide an introduction to the Exemplars in Global Health work on COVID-19;
  • present preliminary findings from three exemplar countries – Thailand, Costa Rica, and Uganda – on their COVID-19 response and ability to maintain essential health services during the pandemic;
  • offer initial lessons learned and strategies for policymakers and decisionmakers around maintenance of essential health services for health system resilience highlighting the impact of essential health service disruption to population health and national health capacities;
  • share evidence on the importance of health systems resilience in improving country’s efforts to prepare for and respond to future pandemics; and
  • identify opportunities to work with country stakeholders and policy makers to establish networks and implement EHS-related lessons learned and recommendations

The primary target audience will include policy/decision makers and implementing organizations. In addition, audience members and participants may include researchers and members of international organizations. The side event intends to invite participants who are implementers of health policy who could be future ambassadors for such work.

This side event will not be limited to a discussion on current findings of the project but also on what is still planned and future aims of the project. A series of poll questions will be asked throughout the side event to engage further with the audience and garner feedback from individuals who fall outside of the project area to gather more information about their approaches to prioritizing and maintaining essential health services, including areas and decisions they have struggled with, to help understand the current needs of policy-makers and facilitate connections for follow-up engagements including implementation of findings.

The first panel will provide an overview of the current Exemplars in Global Health research, including on-the-ground findings and challenges, while the second panel with highlight the importance of essential health services, the challenges of maintaining them, and insight into work going forward in this field.