What is the role of the Private Sector in helping to achieve Universal Health Coverage?

Save the Children and GSK

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a key target in the SDGs – 3.8 “to achieve Universal Health Coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all”. This topic has built growing momentum in 2016 and will be a significant topic of discussion at the World Health Assembly.
Realising the UHC goal will require a thoughtful transition that meets the shared goals of governments, healthcare workers, patients, citizens and industry to expand access to treatment, prevention, services, medicines and vaccines. There is broad agreement that the private sector must be involved. But how?
UHC is an important shared ambition for us. We will also be supported by the International Health Partnership for UHC 2030 (UHC2030), which is building a broad coalition to coordinate the UHC movement and is currently establishing a private sector constituency. As representatives of different stakeholder groups, we want to convene a dialogue on the complementary roles that sectors can take to help achieve UHC, catalyse greater alignment in this space and encourage more companies to join the UHC2030 private sector constituency.
The confirmed panel is:
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<LI>Vanessa Candeias, Head of Health Promotion and Disease, Global Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum </LI>
<LI>Robert Yates, Project Director, UHC Policy Forum, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House </LI>
<LI>Priya Madina, Director Global Issues, GSK</LI>
<LI>Simon Wright, Head of Child Survival, Save the Children UK</LI>
<LI>Kawaldip Sehmi, Chief Executive Officer, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations</LI>
<LI>Dr. Julia Tainijoki-Seyer, World Medical Association</LI>
<LI>Diane Le Corvec, UHC2030</LI>
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The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Jean Freymond, President, Dialogues Geneva and Network for Governance, Entrepreneurship &amp; Development. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.