2nd HEALTH SYSTEMS JOINT NETWORK MEETING FOR CENTRAL, EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
The financial sustainability of health systems - improving the dialogue

1-2 December 2016, Tallinn, Estonia

Organised by the OECD, the Global Fund, the WHO and the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs

Chair: Geert VAN MAANEN, Director Top consultant, Former Secretary General of Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, and Former Secretary General of Ministry of Finance, Netherlands

AGENDA - COM/DELSA/GOV/A(2016)2

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Thursday, 1 December 2016

Opening remarks:

• Jevgeni Ossinovski, Minister of Social Affairs, Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs
• Nicolas Cantau, Regional Manager for Eastern Europe, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Hans Kluge, Director, Division of Health Systems and Public Health, WHO/Europe 
• Camila Vammalle, Economist / Policy Analyst, OECD 
• Chris James, Economist / Health Policy Analyst, OECD

SESSION 1: Sustainability and Transition - Why? How? When?
Speakers:

• Nicolas Cantau, Regional Manager for Eastern Europe, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Maris Jesse, Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia

SESSION 2: Structure and governance of financing of health systems
Speakers:

• Tamás Evetovits, Head of WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening
• Kārlis Ketners, State Secretary, Ministry of Health, Latvia
• Steve Wright, Executive Director, European Centre for Health Assets and Architecture

SESSION 3: Budget formulation process
Speakers:

• Ana María Ruiz Rivadeneira, Policy Analyst, OECD
• Lyubomir Kamboshev, Health Expert, Budget Directorate, Ministry of Finance of Bulgaria

SESSION 4: Budget execution
Speakers:

• Chris James, Economist / Health Policy Analyst, OECD
• Eva Helena Zver, Social Welfare & Social Development Division, Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development of Slovenia

SESSION 5: Performance budgeting, reporting and monitoring
Speakers:

• Camila Vammalle, Economist / Policy Analyst, OECD
• Jakub Haas, Head of Healthcare and Public Health Insurance Unit, Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic

 
Friday, 2 December 2016

SESSION 6: National Health Accounts
Speakers:

• Michael Mueller, Health Policy Analyst, OECD
• Ali Nurgozhayev, Head of the Centre for Economic Research in Healthcare of Kazakhstan 
• Geir Lie, Health Financing Specialist, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

SESSION 7: Social contracting
Speakers:

• Geir Lie, Health Financing Specialist, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Facilitator) 
• Aljona Kurbatova, Head of the Infectious Diseases and Drug Abuse Prevention Department, National Institute for Health Development of Estonia
• Iva Jovovic, Executive Director of Life Quality Improvement Organisation Flight, Croatia

Closing remarks and ways forward