The Global Challenge of Health Systems - Summary of Pocantico Discussions
Pocantico II -
The Rockefeller Foundation
Available online as PDF file [50p.] at: http://www.rockfound.org/library/0907pocantico_brochure.pdf
Surveillance systems and the threat of new pandemics. With the ongoing threat of new diseases— and the impact of globalization and travel
in accelerating the spread of such diseases—the group agreed it was important to help build country capacity in health surveillance and rapid
response, particularly in the regional epicenters of emerging pandemics, as well as to increase linkages between animal and human health.
New competencies for public health professionals. The group recognized the need to update cadres of leaders and health workers facing
new paradigms in complex health systems, identified new dimensions for the work of public health professionals, and suggested more
experiential learning in Schools of Public Health Schools on new area—from traditional epidemiology to the financing and management of
health services and the social determinants of health.
Access and distribution of health products and technologies. The group agreed that, without a good grasp of supply chain management,
there was a risk of an “innovation pileup” in the next 5 to 10 years as the Public/Private Partnerships’ initiatives in research and development
bear fruit, and discussed how to ensure that health systems can best get those innovations to the target populations and on the need to build
on a fuller understanding of what has worked effectively in the past.
eHealth—the use of information technology to strengthen health systems. In this frontier area, the group discussed ways that IT could improve
health services and public health in the developing world, where wireless connectivity is increasing and there is little legacy system fragmentation.
Participants called for an overall architecture of information and a set of “open standards” to ensure that such systems can quickly and effectively
be deployed and scaled, and for new capabilities and partnerships to support eHealth in the developing world.
The role of the private sector in developing country health systems. The private sector is a major component of health care systems throughout the developing world—in many developing countries 80 percent of health care delivery is provided by the private sector—yet it has been neglected in global health and policy thinking. The group discussed the need for a better understanding of the dimensions of, and the challenges and opportunities to engage the private
sector on expanding access to care, improving training and quality, and exploring new risk-pooling mechanisms in poor countries (i.e. health insurance).
Content:
INTRODUCTION - Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation
THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF HEALTH SYSTEMS: SUMMARY OF POCANTICO DISCUSSIONS
- Overall Trends in Global Health
- Pandemic Threats and Public Health Surveillance
- Defining the Required Competencies for Public Health Professionals
- Ensuring Access to Technologies and Social Innovations
- Using Information Technology to Improve Health Care Delivery and Health Systems—eHealth
- Leveraging the Private Sector
- Looking for Leadership
APPENDICES
Participants
Tara Acharya, The Rockefeller Foundation
Seth Berkley, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Jo
Karl Brown, The Rockefeller Foundation
Charlanne Burke, The Rockefeller Foundation
Paulo Buss, FIOCRUZ
Nils Daulaire, Global Health Council
Neil de Crescenzo, Oracle Corporation
David de Ferranti, The Brookings Institution, Global Health Financing Initiative
Christopher J. Elias, PATH
Tim Evans, World Health Organization (WHO)
Harvey V. Fineberg,
Julio Frenk, Ministry of Health
Laurie Garrett, Council on Foreign Affairs
Margaret A. Hamburg, Nuclear Threat Initiative/Global Health and Security Initiative
Jim Yong Kim, Harvard Medical School/Harvard
Robert M. Kolodner, United States Department of Health and Human Services
S. Yunkap Kwankam, World Health Organization (WHO) EIP/KMS
Asha-Rose Migiro, United Nations
Anne Mills,
Arnon A. Mishkin, Mitchell Madison Group
Robert Orr, United Nations
Ariel Pablos-Méndez, The Rockefeller Foundation
Joy Phumaphi, World Bank
K. Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation of
Judith Rodin, The Rockefeller Foundation
Mirta Roses Periago, Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the WHO
John W. Rowe,
Sally Stansfield, Health Metrics Network, WHO
Mark J. Walport, Wellcome Trust
Suwit Wibulpolprasert, WHO/Thailand Ministry of Public Health
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