Day

Room

Topic

Thursday 1^st November, 7:45-9:15

305 D/E

SESSION: Health Systems Research Methodologies: Aligning Measurement between organizations to assess private sector impact 

·         Testing the applicability of a disability-adjusted life year model for measuring health impact of social-franchise programmes in low- and middle-income countries (Dominic Montagu, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco)

·         Measuring the Quality of Private Providers in Myanmar (Tin Aung, Population Services International, Myanmar)

·         Piloting the equity assessment of social franchises (Nirali Shah, Population Services International, USA) 

·         Aligning measurement between organizations: Population Services International ‘s disability
adjusted life year models and Marie Stopes International's Impact 2 model  (Kenzo Fry, Marie Stopes International, United Kingdom)

Thursday 1^st November, 11:30-13:00

307

SESSION: Comparative Health Systems in Asia – Public-Private Participation 

·         New challenges of private and public relationships for 21st-century super-aged society (Toshihiko Hasegawa, Nippon University, Japan)

·         Regulating public-private participation of healthcare in China (Haichao Lei, Beijing Health Bureau, China)

·         The paradox of regulating healthcare in India (Dayashankar Maurya, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore)

·         Reforming the healthcare system in Fujian, China (Alex Jingwei He, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)

·         Financing private‐public participation for healthcare in Singapore (Kai Hong Phua, Asian Trends Monitoring, Singapore)

Thursday 1^st November, 16:30-18:00

308

SESSION: Proposed Lancet series on the private sector in health 

·         The Private sector in health care (Sakthivel Selvaraj, Public Health Foundation of India)

·         Recent trends in working with the private sector to improve basic health care: A review of evidence and interventions (Dominic Montagu, University of California, San Francisco, Global Health Group, USA)

·         Managing the private sector in pluralistic health systems (Barbara McPake, Professor and Director, Queen Margaret University, United Kingdom) 

Thursday 1^st  November, 16:30-18:00

Convention Hall, 2c

SESSION: Understanding the Private Sector

·         An investigation into the public subsidization of non‐state health facilities to expand access and financial risk protection: The experiences of and lessons learnt from Malawi. (Maureen Leah Chirwa, College of Medicine, Malawi)

·         Strengthening government primary reproductive healthcare services through social franchising in rural Viet Nam: the “tinh chi em” (Sisterhood) model (Dinh Thi Nhuan,  Marie Stopes International, Viet Nam)

·         Expanding our scope: understanding health markets in rural Cambodia (Emre Özaltin, World Bank, Cambodia)

Friday 2nd November, 7:45-9:15

307

SESSION: Harnessing informal providers for health systems improvement: Lessons from Bangladesh, India, and Nigeria 

·         What is the role of informal healthcare providers in developing countries? A literature review (May Sudhinaraset,  UCSF Global Health Group, USA)

·         A comparative study of informal private healthcare providers in two districts in India: Tehri Garhawl, Uttarakhand in the north, and Guntur, Andhra Pradesh in the south (Meenakshi Gautham, Centre for Research on New International Economic Order, India)

·        A study of the role of patent medicine vendors in the informal anti-malarial market in Nigeria (Oladimeji Oladepo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

·        Treatment practices and business strategy of drug sellers in the informal medical markets in Bangladesh (Nabeel Ali, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh)

Friday 2^nd November, 11:30-13:00

Convention Hall, 2a

SESSION: How can public-private partnerships improve health systems?  Lessons from Hong Kong, Singapore, and China 

·         Overview of public-private partnership framework (Eliza Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

·         Evaluation of the elderly healthcare voucher scheme in Hong Kong (Su Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

·         Public-private participation in healthcare for ageing populations in Asia: The case of Singapore (Kai Hong Phua, Asian Trends Monitoring, Singapore)

·         How can China better utilize public‐private partnership to improve its health system? (Hongwei Yang, China National Health Development Research Center, China)

Saturday 3^rd November, 9:30-11:00

Convention Hall, 2c

SESSION: Extending service delivery through traditional and informal providers

    ·         From local innovation in chronic illness management to universal access: System dynamic approaches to policy learning (Justin Mcnab, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health)

    ·         Good health at low cost in Kerala State: The missing link of traditional medical systems? (Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies, India)

    ·         Informal providers and delivery of public goods among marginalized population: A case study  from the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, India (Garima Pathak, Public Health Foundation of India)

    ·         Health system strengthening for maternal and child health: The role of home-based counselling in the community (Fatuma Manzi, Ifakara Health Institute, United Republic of Tanzania)