【Talk Title】Tracking Resources For Primary Health Care-A Framework and Practice in Low-and Middle Income Countries

【Speaker】Dr. Hong Wang

Senior Program Officer/Senior Policy Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

【Host】Sitong Luo

Assistant Professor, Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University

【Time】 11:00-12:00, Monday, Oct.23

【Venue】428B, Mingli Building （明理楼428B）

【Abstract】

The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This presentation introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting. In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end “storyline”. In order to building a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this presentation highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.

【Biography】

Dr. Hong Wang has over 30 years of experience in health economics, financing, and systems in developing countries. He is a Senior Program Officer/Senior Policy Advisor at BMGF. Currently, he manages healthcare care financing, integrated healthcare, health service purchasing and provider incentives, and poverty reduction (including women and children’s health) related investment at foundation’s Beijing office. Before joined BMGF, Dr. Wang was a Principal Associate/Senior Health Economist in Abt Associates Inc. as the technical lead on health financing-related projects in India, Indonesia, Bangladeshi, Nigeria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Mali, and other LMICs. Dr. Wang was an Assistant/Clinical Associate Professor at Yale School of Public Health, an Associate Professor/Acting Director in the Health Economics Department at Beijing Medical University, and an Adjunct Professor/Deputy Director at National Health Economics Institute, China. Dr. Wang graduated from Beijing Medical University (Public Health) and The University of Wisconsin/Madison (Ph.D. in Population Health and Health Economics).