WHO Advanced Course on Health Financing for Universal

WHO Advanced Course
on Health Financing for
Universal Coverage
for Low and Middle
Income Countries
8-12 June 2015
Barcelona, Spain
The World Health Organization is pleased to announce its second Advanced Course on Health Financing for
Universal Coverage for low and middle income countries to be held from the 8th-12th June 2015. This week‑long
advanced training program is based on the Barcelona Course on Health Financing currently offered by the
WHO Regional Office for Europe, but incorporates new materials to reflect the context and of low and middle
income countries globally.
COURSE CONTENT
PARTICIPANTS
The course is structured around the different functions
of health financing policy and their role in improving
health system performance, in particular progressing
towards universal health coverage:
This is an advanced course and participants are
expected to have extensive and relevant work
experience in health financing policy and previous
training in health systems and policy issues. If you are
a policy maker, advisor and analyst in the health and
social sectors, senior manager of a service provider
organization or health insurance fund, or another
stakeholder in government, the private sector or civil
society and engage in strategic policy discussions on
health financing policy, this course is for you.
›› Raising revenues – opportunities and constraints
›› Pooling health revenues – the cost of fragmentation
›› Purchasing – more health for the money through
payment reforms
›› Designing a benefit package – equity, affordability
and transparency
›› Health financing and public finance management
– aligning for implementation
›› Coordinating reform – aligning policy instruments
with policy objectives
This course will be delivered exclusively in English.
WHO Advanced Course on Health Financing for Universal Coverage for Low and Middle Income Countries
FACULTY
Joseph Kutzin,
Head of Health Financing Policy
Team, WHO Headquarters
Matthew Jowett, Senior
Health Financing Specialist,
WHO Headquarters
Inke Mathauer, Senior
Health Financing Specialist,
WHO Headquarters
Cheryl Cashin,
Joint Learning Network for Universal
Health Coverage
Tamás Evetovits, Head of
Barcelona Office a.i. WHO/Europe
Sarah Thomson, Senior Heath
Financing Specialist, Barcelona
Office WHO/Europe
VENUE
The course will be held at Casa Convalescencia,
a UNESCO World Heritage site and part of the
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona where
WHO Europe’s Barcelona Office for Health System
Strengthening is based.
APPLICATIONS AND DEADLINES
Places on the course are limited. Online applications
must be submitted by midnight Geneva time on
Thursday 5th March 2015. All information is available at:
http://who.int/health_financing/hfcourse2015/en/
A Course Selection Committee will review applications,
and places on the course will be offered by email during
the week commencing 16th March 2015.
organization of the training course which includes
course materials, coffee breaks and lunches on each
of the five days of the course, plus one evening
Dinner Reception.
VISAS
Applicants are responsible for obtaining a visa if
required. A formal invitation and visa support letter
will be provided by WHO. Please note that obtaining
a visa may require several weeks and hence early
application is advised.
CONTACT
Any queries regarding the course or the application
process should be sent by email to: hfcourse@who.int
To secure attendance, accepted participants are asked
to pay a Registration Fee of USD 100. Participants (or
their funding agencies) are responsible for covering
costs related to travel, accommodation, subsistence
and any additional costs whilst in Barcelona. Special
rates will be arranged by WHO at hotels close to the
venue. WHO covers all other costs related to the
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COSTS AND REGISTRATION FEE