SDA Bocconi School of Management's Master of International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy (MIHMEP), is proud to host the International Conference on Sustaining and Implementing Universal Health Coverage, taking place at Università Bocconi Grafton Building on 10th February 2012, in collaboration with Bocconi Alumni Association.
A unique international gathering of high visibility and importance, the Conference represents the most prestigious health care event ever to be held in Italy and addresses the most challenging topics of Universal Health Care with esteemed guest speakers and a round table event. Four different perspectives will be exposed and discussed during the Plenary and the Round Table sessions. The discussants are high level academics and prominent figures from all parts of the globe and all areas of health care (Policy, Management, Economics, Global and Public Health), 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
- Timothy G. Evans - Dean, James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University, Bangladesh
- Armin Fidler - 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 such as WHO, World Bank and Private Sector.
Aimed at addressing the hot topics of the four pillars of the MIHMEP Master (Global Health & Development; Health Care Management; Health Systems Planning & Governance; Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology), the Conference Program starts at 8:00 and ends at 18:00.
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.
The event is open to all who have a keen interest in this global theme which concerns all countries from the most industrialized to emerging markets and developing countries. In particular, the expected participants include:
- Health Care Managers
- International and Italian members from the Private Sector, including the Medical Device and Pharmaceutical sectors
- Policymakers, including representatives from Ministries and Regulatory agencies
- Academics of the Health Care sector
- Università Bocconi and SDA Bocconi Community - Alumni and current students
A special report synthetising key messages and presentations will be released after the conference in an A+ peer reviewed journal.
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.
