8.00 am - 5.45 pm
Milano, Italy
On 10th February 2012 in Milano, SDA Bocconi School of Management's Master of International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy (MIHMEP) will organize its first International Conference on 'Sustaining and implementing universal health coverage. 4 Perspectives for 5 Continents'.
The global event will address the most challenging topics of universal access to health and will highlight four different perspectives through the involvement of prominent academics, policymakers and leaders from around the world, including:
- Gérard de Pouvourville - Head, ESSEC Institute for Health Economics and Management and ESSEC Health Economics Chair, ESSEC, France
- Mike Drummond - Professor of Health Economics, York University, UK
- Armin Fidler MD MPH, MSc. - Lead Adviser, Health Policy and Strategy, Human Development Network, The World Bank Group
- Ed Godber - Senior VP and Head of European Access to Medicines, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
- Muir Gray - Team Leader of Doing the Right Things, NHS and Oxford Radcliffe Trust, UK
- Nancy Kane - Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, US
- Daniel López-Acuña - Director of Strategies, Policies and Resource Management in Health Action in Crisis, WHO, Switzerland
- Martin McKee - Professor of European Public Health and Co-Director of ECOHOST, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Mark Pearson - Head of the Health Division, OECD, France
- Walter Ricciardi - Professor of Hygiene and Public Health, Director of the Department of Public Health, and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica, Italy
- Peter Spurgeon - Professor in Clinical Healthcare Management, Institute of Clinical Leadership of Warwick University, UK
- Guido Tabellini - Rector, Università Bocconi, Italy
- Paola Testori Coggi - Director General, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission, Belgium
and global decision-makers like WHO, World Bank and Private Sector.
The conference aims to gather all members of the Scientific Board of MIHMEP to discuss the up-to-date state of the art as to Universal Access to Health from the perspectives of Management, Economics, Global Health, and Public Health. Such discussions will cover all countries, from high to low-income.
The program is divided into three main parts:
- How the theme of Universal Coverage of Health is approached in Academia.
- How Universal Coverage can be implemented: presentation of cases by MIHMEP Alumni working in the Industry, Governments, NGOs, International Organisations, and Funders.
- How Universal Coverage of Health is dealt with by global decision-makers such as the European Commission, OECD, WHO, World Bank and Industry.
Over 700 delegates from the academia, policy-making arena, industry, healthcare management are expected to attend. A special report synthetising key messages and presentations will be released after the conference in an A+ peer reviewed journal.
For more information on the program and registration: www.sdabocconi.it/universalhealth
We thank GlaxoSmithKline, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson Trust, SORIN GROUP and Boston Scientific for their precious support.
Under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Health.
