Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2018 Side Meeting, January 30, 2018
“How Can Health Data and Technological Innovations Contribute to the NextGeneration UHC to Ensure Global Human Security?”
Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP), National Center for Global
Health and Medicine (NCGM), in conjunction with “The Partnership Project for
Global Health and Universal Health Coverage (GLO+UHC)”, is pleased to announce
the upcoming PMAC 2018 side meeting, “How Can Health Data and TechnologicalInnovations Contribute to the Next-Generation UHC to Ensure Global HumanSecurity?”, which is to be held on January 30, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.

1. Side Meeting Details
Time & Date

14:00-16:30 (time subject to change) on Tuesday, January
30, 2018

Venue

Convention Center, Centara Grand Hotel at Central World,Bangkok, Thailand (Room TBA)

Language

English only

Participation

Free of charge and open to all PMAC participants andgeneral public. Advance registration is required.

Registration Deadline

January 14, 2018

Expected number of80

participants

2. Meeting Agenda (tentative)
14:00-14:07

Welcome Remarks (Eiji Hinoshita, Director-General, Bureau ofInternational Health Cooperation, NCGM)

14:07-14:22

Opening Remarks & Presentation (Manabu Sumi, Director, Global
Health Policy Division, International Cooperation Bureau, MOFA,Japan)

14:22-14:29

Introduction of Thailand-Japan collaboration project (Yohsuke
Takasaki, Chief Advisor, GLO+UHC)

14:30-14:45

Keynote Address 1 (Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Professor, Princeof Songkla University, Thailand)

14:45-15:00

Keynote Address 2 (Hiroaki Miyata, Director, Department of Global
Health Systems and Innovation, iGHP, NCGM)

15:00-15:10

Q&A Session

15:10-15:20

Coffee Break

15:20-16:20

Panel Discussion followed by a Q&A session
Panelists include health data and public health specialists fromvarious international organizations, academic institutions, andrepresentatives from some of the ASEAN countries

16:20-16:30

Closing Remarks (Senior Official of Thailand)

3. Backgrounds
When working towards effective and efficient Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
implementation, the current trends surrounding health systems should be taken into
consideration. These trends include human mobility at the global level, humanitariancrises, epidemiological and demographic transitions, emerging and re-emerging
infectious diseases, and the ever-increasing needs for quality and equitable healthcare services. Accordingly, health systems should be strengthened at multiple levels(community, national, regional and global), and person-centered quality health careneeds to be delivered to everyone.
Novel approaches as well as mobilization of existing resources are necessary forplanning effective and reliable health systems. Strategic utilization of health dataand information and communication technology (ICT) is a significant measure in thisera of sustainable development goals (SDGs). These technical innovations canpotentially help design a next-generation UHC, to establish healthy and sustainable
future societies. Stakeholders from different sectors should ideally be able tocollaborate to deliver person-centered quality health care with effective use ofhealth data. However, in reality, obstacles such as conflicts of interest among
stakeholders need to be surmounted.

In this side meeting, speakers from diverse sectors will share their experiences anddiscuss new strategies to design health systems with effective use of health datathat could ensure human security at individual levels irrespective of their locations;
how to overcome challenges in collaborating with stakeholders; and global
partnerships expected from the perspective of global human security.

4. Objectives•

To share knowledge of new approaches to making health systems personcentered, efficient, and sustainable with effective use of health data and ICT.

•To foster discussion among stakeholders from various sectors to promotepartnerships at country and global levels.

5. Expected outcomes•

The role of health data in making health systems person-centered, efficient, andsustainable are understood by audiences.

•Stakeholders from various sectors would be able to identify the key factors inpromoting partnerships at national and global levels.

This side meeting is co-organized by:•Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP), the Bureau of International
Health Cooperation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM),Japan•“The Partnership Project for Global Health and Universal Health Coverage(GLO+UHC)” [Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), National Health
Security Office (NHSO), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)]

Report on the PMAC 2018 Side Meeting "How Can Health Data and TechnologicalInnovations Contribute to the Next-Generation UHC for Ensuring Global Human
Security?" (January 30, 2018)

At the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2018, held in Bangkok fromJanuary 29 to February 3, 2018, Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP)
had an honor to host a side meeting, titled "How Can Health Data and TechnologicalInnovations Contribute to the Next-Generation UHC for Ensuring Global HumanSecurity?". The side meeting was co-hosted by iGHP and “The Partnership Projectfor Global Health and Universal Health Coverage (GLO+UHC)” (Thailand Ministry of
Public Health (MOPH), National Health Security Office (NHSO) and Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA),) on January 30, 2018.
Following the welcome remarks by Dr. Eiji Hinoshita, Director-General, Bureau ofInternational Health Cooperation, NCGM, Dr. Manabu Sumi, Director of Global
Health Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Japan, gave apresentation on Japan’s Global Health Policy. He introduced several politicalcommitments made by Japan at major high-level meetings in recent years such as
the G7 Ise-Shima summit in 2016 and the UHC Forum held in Tokyo in 2017. Healso articulated on Japan’s commitment towards upcoming meetings and continued
intent to address global health agenda.
Dr. Yohsuke Takasaki, Chief Advisor of GLO+UHC, gave an overview of theGLO+UHC and elaborated upon the Thailand-Japan collaborative research in which
iGHP is actively involved.
The first keynote presentation was delivered by Professor Virasakdi
Chongsuvivatwong, Chair of International Programme for Graduate Study in
Epidemiology at the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand. He presented on thetypes of information required for UHC planning and key sources including vitalregistration, hospital records, and health financial transaction. He also stressed theimportance of data readiness and openness for analysis, as well as the capacity ofhuman resources for quality data utilization.

Professor Hiroaki Miyata, Director of Department of Global Health Systems andInnovation at iGHP followed with the second keynote presentation of the day. He
introduced a new approach to designing health systems that utilizes health data
effectively. This approach includes an open database system called “Personcentered Open Platform for wellbeing (PeOPLe)” that could support eachindividual’s health and wellbeing irrespective of their locations. He noted that healthdata innovation like PeOPLe would bring a paradigm shift to UHC, empowering eachindividual and society at large, as well as contributing to promotion of global alliancefor health and wellbeing. He called this, “the next generation UHC”.
The experts from diverse sectors such as government, academia and research
institutes, private sector of four countries (Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan) andtwo developing partners contributed to the panel discussion. They shared theirexperiences and expertise including eHealth update in Vietnam, stakeholder
analysis in promoting evidence-based approach to health planning in Indonesia,
efforts to achieve a people-centered health information system in Thailand, and therole of development partners in strengthening health systems with use of healthdata in resource limited countries. These speakers discussed in depth on ways toovercome challenges in collaborating with stakeholders as well as the importanceand expectations for global partnerships from the perspective of human security.
This event was well-received by approximately one hundred participants fromvarious countries.
Speakers:
Eiji Hinoshita, Director-General, Bureau of International Health Cooperation, NCGM,Japan
Manabu Sumi, Director, Global Health Policy Division, International Cooperation
Bureau, MOFA, JapanYohsuke Takasaki, Chief Advisor, GLO+UHCSupakit Sirilak, Chief of Inspector General, MOPH, Thailand
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Suchanya Aungkulanon, Researcher, International Health Policy Program, Ministryof Public Health, Thailand

Panelists:
Luong Chi Thanh, Deputy Director General, Electronic Health Administration,
MOPH, Vietnam
Defriman Djafri, Dean, Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University, West Sumatra,Indonesia
Tsunenori Aoki, Senior Deputy Director, Human Development Department, JICA
Netnapis Suchonwanich, Former Deputy Secretary-General, NHSO, Thailand
Hiroaki Miyata, iGHP, NCGM, Japan
Kongkiat Kespechara, CEO, Group 3, Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, Thailand
Mukesh Chawla, Advisor to the Senior Director, the World Bank
iGHP’s input to a side meeting organized by NHSO
iGHP also had an honor of taking part in a side meeting organized by NHSO andHeart to Heart Foundation, Thailand, titled “In Memory of Dr. Sanguan
Nittayaramphong: Patient Empowerment & People Engagement for Sustainable
UHC,” on January 30 at the PMAC 2018. Ms. Sangnim Lee, research fellow at iGHP
served as a panelist and gave a talk on how Thailand’s Universal Coverage Scheme(UCS) has empowered people both within and outside of Thailand, howrepresentatives of service users have been involved in improving health insurance
system in Japan, and its comparison with that of Thailand. Mutual learning waspromoted among panelists and participants from countries including Thailand, Japanand India on issues such as the kinds of benefits gained from people engagement in
UHC implementation and ways forward.