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One by One: Target 2030 UHC Conference 2019
Africa Leads the Way: Accelerating Progress For UHC by Addressing Climate Change
September 23, 2019 • 4:30 PM • NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
​The Access Challenge held a UHC High Level Conference to begin a global dialogue on global barriers, synergies and opportunities on the pathway to UHC. We convened the foremost leaders in each of the four disease groups with senior practitioners in each of these fields of global health to discuss their insights into the barriers to achieving UHC on the timeline articulated by Director-General Tedros. Each of these high impact leaders had extensive experience in a particular therapeutic area, region or program. By bringing these experts all together in shared conversation we hoped both to learn from their deep experience and to begin to develop shared insights into global barriers, synergies and opportunities on the pathway to UHC.
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By bringing these experts all together in shared conversation we hoped both to learn from their deep experience and to begin to develop shared insights into global barriers, synergies and opportunities on the pathway to UHC. The UHC Conference culminated with a high level dinner and awards ceremony to celebrate three extraordinary UHC leaders.
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SPEAKERS
His Excellency President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania (2005-2015)
 
Ms. Kate Campana
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
The Access Challenge
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Mr. Achim Steiner
Administrator
United Nations Development Programme
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General
World Health Organization
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Dr. Chris Elias
President, Global Development Division
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Dr. Carmen Villar
Vice President of Social Business Innovation
Merck & Co.
PANEL
MATERNAL HEALTH
OBJECTIVE
The panel was invited to participate in a discussion to consider the barriers to achieving UHC from a maternal health perspective. In particular, the panel was invited to:
 
  • Build a shared understanding of what constitutes accessible, quality maternal health care in different contexts.
  • Explore the integral link between technology and training in the context of health system strengthening.
  • Identify strategies for the effective use of financial resources at global and national levels.
  • Shape policy objectives that will contribute to achieving UHC by 2030.
MODERATOR
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Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet
Executive Director, Merck for Mothers
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PANELISTS
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H.E. Dr. Joyce Banda
Former President of Malawi

Dr. Mariam Claeson
Director, Global Financing Facility

Mrs. Bineta Diop
AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security

Mr. Pape Amadou Gaye
President and CEO, Intrahealth

Dr. Edna Adan Ismail
Director and Founder, Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, Former Foreign Minister of Somaliland
 
Hon. Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi
Honorable Minister of State in Charge of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health Rwanda
PANEL
CHILD  HEALTH AND MALARIA
OBJECTIVE
The panel was invited over a series of pre-meetings and at the conference itself, to consider the barriers to achieving UHC from a child health perspective. In particular, the panel was invited to:
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  • Identify the role that siloed, disease specific funding flows have on the development of effective PHC systems.
  • Identify how to leverage external disease specific funding flows to improve PHC
    systems.
  • Discuss the importance of government investment in PHC systems.
  • Understand the impact of disease specific advocacy vs. advocacy for domestic
    investment in health.
  • Identify how to extend the PHC systems through the use of community-based health
    workers and through the use of broad-based maternal education.
  • Determine how to address critical funding gaps for PHC systems and for critical
  • diagnostic and treatment tools like amoxicillin and oxygen.
MODERATOR
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H.E. Mrs. Toyin Saraki
Founder/President, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa and Global Goodwill Ambassador, ICM
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PANELISTS
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Dr. Kesete Admasu
CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria

Dr. Katharina Lichtner
Managing Director, Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation

Dr. Henry Mwanyika
Digital Health Regional Director for Africa, PATH

Dr. Stefan Swartling Peterson
CEO, Save the Children, UK

Mr. Kevin Watkins
​CEO, Save the Children, UK
PANEL
Neglected Tropical Diseases
OBJECTIVE
The panel was invited over a series of pre-meetings and at the conference itself, to consider the barriers to achieving UHC from an NTD perspective. In particular, the panel was invited to:
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  • Consider the leading barriers to progress on achieving global NTD elimination targets by 2030.
  • Discuss the catalytic effect of public private partnerships/alliances in making the elimination of NTDs a reality.
  • Highlight the need for national leadership to build country capacity to eliminate NTDs.
  • Discuss how to achieve programmatic integration of NTDs into Primary Health Services
    so as to achieve synergies, save money, and thereby ensure universal access.
  • Identify key policies that could contribute to the achievement of UHC by 2030.
MODERATOR
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Dr. Maria Rebollo
ESPEN Team Leader, WHO Regional Office for Africa
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PANELISTS
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Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity, Former Minister of Health Rwanda

Ms. Irene Koek
Senior Deputy Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, USAID

Dr. Luc Kuykens
Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Africa

Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti
CEO, Save the Children, UK

Dr. Sylvain Yuma
Secretary General for Health, Ministry of Health Democratic Republic ofCongo
PANEL
Non-Communicable Diseases
OBJECTIVE
The panel was invited over a series of pre-meetings and at the conference itself, to consider the barriers to achieving UHC from a NCD perspective. In particular, the panel was invited to:
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  • Identify what is being done to improve diagnosis and treatment of NCDs.
  • Outline solutions to issues of access and discuss how to make a wider variety of
    prevention and treatment options more readily available in Africa.
  • Discuss prevention.
  • Discuss private sector engagement.
  • Discuss what investments can be made to address NCDs.
  • Shape policy objectives that will contribute to the achievement of the UHC 2030 agenda.
MODERATOR
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Mr. David Barash
Executive Director, Global Health and Chief
Medical Officer of GE Foundation
 
Dr. Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH
Director of Primary Health Care, Ariadne Labs
 
Dr. Joseph Lubega
Director Global HOPE, Texas Children’s Hospital, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
 
Ms. Helen-Marie Seibel
Director of Global Community Investment, AstraZeneca
 
Dr. Karlee Silver
Co-CEO, Grand Challenges Canada
UNC
CONFERENCE AWARDEES
A fundamental precondition to the achievement of UHC is leadership.
The Access Challenge recognized three outstanding leaders whose extraordinary work has contributed
to UHC.
UHC African Leadership Award
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Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
Pediatrician, Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, a Senior Lecturer in the Global Health and Social Medicine Department at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct clinical professor of pediatrics at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
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UHC Innovative Partnership Award
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The Expanded Special Project for
Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN)
A five-year project launched by WHO
AFRO in May 2016 in order to help endemic countries build the capacity to run robust NTD control and elimination programs.
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UHC Award for Innovative Leadership
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Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a world-renowned foundation whose policy, partnership and strategic
work led to the commitment of UHC as key priority in the SDG framework.
One by One: Target 2030 UHC Conference 2019
Africa Leads the Way: Accelerating Progress For UHC by Addressing Climate Change
SEPTEMNBER 23rd, 2019 • 4:30 pm • New york city, NY

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