Transforming Challenge into Action: Expanding Health Coverage for All | 2024 Spring Meetings

Health care is an investment, not an expense. Affordable accessible health care can unlock human capital and economic dividends for countries. Today, over half of the world’s population―around 4.5 billion people―lack access to essential health services. And two billion people face financial hardships due to health-related expenses. This is compounded by a range of growing risks such as climate change, pandemics, fragility, and conflict. Watch this event to learn how the World Bank is working closely with countries and partners to address these challenges and help ensure more people across the world have greater access to high quality and affordable health care. Learn more: http://wrld.bg/IAK950R8QO3    • 2024 World Bank Spring Meetings  

SPEAKERS
Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization ‪@who‬
Shun’ichi Suzuki, Minister of Finance, Japan
Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt
Dr. Muhammad Pate, Minister of Health, Nigeria
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia
Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS
Lamia Tazi, CEO, Sothema
Senait Fisseha, Vice President of Global Programs, The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Moderator: Shakuntala Santhiran, International broadcast journalist

AGENDA
00:00 Welcome
01:53 Insights and perspectives: World Bank Group and World Health Organization
21:38 National strategies and initiatives: The case of Japan
27:15 Achieving universal health care: Opportunities and challenges
47:10 How can we better finance health?

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