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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

[EQ] Understanding the Post-2015 Development Agenda Process and Opportunities and Challenges that Lay Ahead - IOM Webinar - 18 Oct. 2012

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health – SDE - PAHO/WHO
JOINT SEMINAR WITH THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (IOM/NRC, USA)

Understanding the Post-2015 Development Agenda Process
Opportunities and Challenges that Lay Ahead

18 October 2012 – Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST (Washington, DC USA)

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(This webinar will be delivered In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish and close-captioned for the Hearing impaired)

Website: http://bit.ly/QRmkIB

Related readings:

Realizing the Future We Want for All: Report to the Secretary-General

PDF [58p] available online at: http://bit.ly/SNc9r3

“…..The central challenge of the post-2015 UN development agenda is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the worlds’ peoples of present and future generations. Globalization offers great opportunities, but its benefits are at present very unevenly shared.

The continuous striving for improvements in material welfare is threatening to surpass the limits of the natural resource base unless there is a radical shift towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production and resource use. Persistent inequalities and struggles over scarce resources are among key determinants of situations of conflict, hunger, insecurity and violence, which in turn are key factors that hold back human development and efforts to achieve sustainable development.

Business as usual thus cannot be an option and transformative change is needed. As the challenges are highly interdependent, a new, more holistic approach is needed to address them. Accordingly, this first report prepared by the UN System-wide Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda recommends:

• A vision for the future that rests on the core values of human rights, equality and sustainability…..”

Health in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda: Thematic Think Piece - UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO

PDF [17p.] at: http://bit.ly/RNN903

The Future We Want - Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly A/RES/66/288- 11, September 2012

English PDF [53p.] at: http://bit.ly/SKp0ID

Spanish PDF [60p] at: http://bit.ly/QejVFn

Agenda

Webinar Objectives:

· Provide an overview of ongoing United Nations (UN) teams and panels focusing on the post-2015 development agenda process.

· Discuss lessons learned from the MDG agenda process, highlighting perspectives of developing countries.

· Identify opportunities and challenges that lay ahead with the post-2015 development agenda.

11:00 am Opening

John Balbus, (moderator)

Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

11:10 am Overview of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Process and Description of Health-Focused

Initiatives

Marie Neira, Director, Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization

Panel Discussion

Lessons Learned from the MDG Agenda

Insights on Opportunities and Challenges with the Post-2015 Development Agenda Process

11:20 am Amina J. Mohammed (invited)

Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning

CEO/Founder, Center for Development Policy Solutions

11:30 am Paulo Buss.

Former President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Brazil

11:40 am David Serwadda. (invited)

Professor of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Makerere School of Public Health, Uganda

11:50 pm Discussion

12:25 pm Closing
John Balbus, Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

12:30 pm ADJOURN

How to participate

In person: This event is free and open to the public
PAHO/WHO
525 23rd ST NW -Washington DC, 20037 Room 1017

Online: via Blackboard link:

- Spanish room: www.paho.org/virtual/SeminariosSDE

- English room www.paho.org/virtual/SDESeminars

For those who cannot follow the live seminar, it will be available later at: http://bit.ly/oxoRdS

Contact Information:
Agnes Soares, MD, MPH - Advisor Environmental Epidemiology, SDE
Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO - soaresag@paho.org

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[EQ] Priority-Setting in Health: Supporting health technology assessment in the Americas

CGD Event Invitation:

The Center for Global Development and Pan American Health Organization present

Priority Setting in Health:
Supporting health technology assessment in the Americas

Featuring

Harvey V. Fineberg - President US Institute of Medicine

Mirta Roses Periago - Director Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO

Moderated by
Amanda Glassman Director of Global Health Policy Center for Global Development

Donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make broad impact decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions,
when, and at what cost. These decisions--as consequential as they are--often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and interest groups than by science, ethics, and the public interest.

Reallocating a portion of public and donor monies toward the most cost-effective health interventions would save more lives and promote health equity. The obstacle is not only a lack of knowledge about what interventions are best; beyond better evaluative information, too many low- and middle-income countries lack the fair processes and institutions needed to bring that knowledge to bear on funding decisions.

When

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where

The George Washington University
City View Room - 1957 E Street, NW, 7th Floor - Washington DC 20052

Faragut West Metro (Orange and Blue lines)
Faragut North Metro (Red line)

Kyla Lawrence Events Coordinator events@cgdev.org 202-416-4000

The event will feature the Center for Global Development's new report, Priority-Setting in Health: Building Institutions for Smarter Public Spending and
PAHO's recent Health Technology Assessment resolution.: http://bit.ly/Rdyl8q

Priority-Setting in Health:
Building Institutions for Smarter Public Spending

A report of the Center for Global Development’s Priority-Setting Institutions for Global Health Working Group

Amanda Glassman and Kalipso Chalkidou, Co-chairs – 2012

Available online PDF [101p.] at: http://bit.ly/LYHE9Z

“…….Health donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make life-and-death decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost. These decisions—as consequential as they are—often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and interest groups than by science, ethics, and the public interest. The result is perverse priorities, wasted money, and needless death and illness.

Examples abound: In India, only 44 percent of children 1 to 2 years old are fully vaccinated, yet open-heart surgery is subsidized in national public hospitals. In Colombia, 58 percent of children are fully vaccinated, but public monies subsidize treating breast cancer with Avastin, a brand-name medicine considered ineffective and unsafe for this purpose in the United States.

Reallocating a portion of public and donor monies toward the most cost-effective health interventions would save more lives and promote health equity. The obstacle is not a lack of knowledge about what interventions are best, but rather that too many low- and middle-income countries lack the fair processes and institutions needed to bring that knowledge to bear on funding decisions.

With that in mind, the Center for Global Development’s Priority-Setting Institutions for Global Health Working Group recommends creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. The group calls for an interim secretariat to incubate a global health technology assessment facility designed to help governments develop national systems and donors get greater value for money in their grants…”

Content:

Executive summary

Chapter 1 Finite resources, unlimited demand

A framework of de facto rationing mechanisms

The timing of rationing: ex ante and ex post

The rationing implications of allocation between areas and within levels of the health system

In a practical sense, however, priority is often revealed by action and spending

Rationing is constrained by historical and political processes

Why the Priority-Setting Institutions in Health Working Group?

Chapter 2 The opportunity: evidence, economies, and donor agendas converge to make explicit rationing necessary and possible

Force 1: A growing body of evidence suggests huge health gains are possible

Force 2: Public spending on health is growing in low- and middle-income countries

Force 3: Donors are beginning to restrict health aid flows, putting renewed emphasis on impact, co-financing, and value for money

Chapter 3 Considering cost-effectiveness: the moral perspective

The cost-effectiveness landscape in global health 1

The moral case

Challenges addressed

Chapter 4 Progress on policy instruments for explicit priority setting

Essential medicines lists

Health benefits plans

National Immunization Technical Advisory Committees

Health technology assessment agencies

Case studies

Chapter 5 Donors and decisions

Development assistance partners’ support to recipient country priority-setting processes

GAVI Alliance prioritization mechanisms

Global Fund prioritization mechanisms

Chapter 6 Building institutions for explicit priority setting

Institutionalizing health technology assessment systems in low- and middle-income countries

Chapter 7 Recommendations for action

Looking ahead

Appendix A – B

Appendix C Current international support to priority setting in low- and middle-income countries

Appendix D Sources for low- and middle-income countries with health benefits plans

References

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[EQ] World Health Summit: Berlin Germany - October 21- 24 2012

World Health Summit

Berlin, Germany - October 21- 24 2012

Website: http://bit.ly/RbA01j

“…..The World Health Summit’s mission is to bring together researchers, physicians, leading government officials and representatives from industry as well as from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and health care systems worldwide to address the most pressing issues facing medicine and health care systems over the next decade and beyond.

Health and wellbeing are not only of the highest importance to both the individual and societies, they are also a fundamental human right. Governments and international institutions should integrate health and health care into their societal and political agendas and policies to ensure that health is regarded as a public good that must be achieved equitably and to the highest attainable level. To reach this goal, all stakeholders need to cooperate closely to effectively address global health challenges.

Convened under the auspices of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Universities in collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences of more than 67 countries and the InterAcademy Medical Panel, the World Health Summit also aims to promote sustainability and social responsibility.

Goals

•To engender improvement of health care worldwide by strengthening the links in place between research, academic medicine and decision makers across all healthcare sectors, including government and industry.

•To influence, guide and support positive action by policy and decision makers through the provision of credible and scientifically-based evidence.

•To maintain an international, multi-sectoral health forum, sustaining dialogue, creating networks and fostering collaboration as a catalyst for innovation and measurable health care improvement.

•To promote thought leadership through academic input into the scientific and global health agenda.

Speakers:

Josef Ackermann Chairman Zurich Insurance

Peter Agre Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2003

Daniel Bahr Minister of Health, Germany

Gerd Binnig Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1986

Eric Cornut Head of Europe, Novartis

Gan Kim Yong Minister of Health, Singapore

Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, USA

Jean-François Girard Dean, Paris Sorbonne Cité

Richard Horton Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

Zsuzsanna Jakab Regional Director, WHO Regional Office Europe

Ilona Kickbusch Director, Global Health Programme, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Chair, Global Health Europe, Switzerland

Michael Klag Co-President of the World Health Summit, Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Judith Mackay Senior Advisor, World Lung Foundation, USA

Sir Michael Marmot University College of London

Philip D. Murphy US Ambassador to Germany

Peter Piot Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Sima Samar Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission

Severin Schwan CEO, Roche Group, Switzerland

John G. N. Seakgosing Minister of Health, Botswana

John E Ware Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Volker G. Wetekam President and CEO, GE Healthcare Germany

Thank you.

[EQ] Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships

Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships

Two challenge papers by Andrew Norton and Andrew Rogerson
Overseas Development Institute, ODI September 2012

Available online PDF [28p.] at: http://bit.ly/SMEKwv

These two challenge papers were commissioned by DANIDA in preparation for the International High Level Conference ‘Development policy in a changing world’, marking DANIDA’s 50th anniversary (March 2012).

Paper 1, ‘The challenge of, and opportunities for, inclusive and sustainable development’
by Andrew Norton, ODI Director of Research, aims to support high level discussion on the challenges facing global development.
It reviews four key challenges: persistent poverty; globalisation and socio-economic transitions; sustainable development in the context of climate change; and human security, violence and conflict.

Major potential risks include shocks in the world economy, civil conflict and fragility, long-term resource scarcities and climate change. As a result, policy needs to engage with change, focusing on the supra-national level to deliver global public goods. The most significant contemporary challenge is at a meta-level – how to improve the weak capacity of global institutions, processes and relationships to act coherently to address collective action problems in an increasingly multi-polar world.

Content:

Introduction and background

Challenge 1: Persistent poverty

Challenge 2: Globalisation and socio-economic transitions

Challenge 3: Sustainable development and climate change

Challenge 4: Human security, violence and conflict

Conclusion: the challenges to global collective action

References

Paper 2, ‘The policy and institutional response to development challenges: forging new partnerships’
by Andrew Rogerson, ODI Senior Research Associate picks up the themes emerging from paper 1 to address the policy and institutional responses that are needed for inclusive and sustainable development. The paper argues that the challenges outlined in Paper 1 call for collective action of an unprecedented scale, scope and speed. It examines the complex institutional space occupied by the many actors, policies and instruments available to tackle these challenges, and their varied motivations and capabilities. It outlines three main options available to development agencies:

• concentrate on being an efficient disburser of official development assistance (ODA)

• become brokers and managers of ODA and ODA-like funds, concentrating on financial issues and building stronger partnerships with the private sector and non-traditional donors

• become deal-makers and brokers across government and internationally, providing a unique perspective and resources (financial and non-financial) on issues that shape global well-being.

Together, these two challenge papers aim to illuminate the context of the current development paradigm, and outline potential response

Content:
Introduction

Innovations in aid

Disruptors in development cooperation

Conclusions: Implications for development partnerships
References

Thank you.