第 11 回グローバルヘルス政策研究センターセミナー

開催のお知らせInstitute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP), National Center for
Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) is pleased to announce the upcoming
seminar led by Dr. Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Director of International
Health Policy Program (IHPP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. We are
fortunate to have Dr. Walaiporn on the occasion of her visit to Japan as aparticipant in the highly-anticipated UHC Forum 2017(http://universalhealthcoverageday.org/forum/), which is to be held
between December 12 and 15, 2017 in Tokyo.

Date & Time

Friday, December 15, 2017, 12:00-13:00Topic"Health System Performance and Assessment toward theAchievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)"

Venue

Institute for Global Health Policy Research, Bureau ofInternational Cooperation (Ground floor, Training Center
Building), National Center for Global Health and Medicine,Tokyo

Accesshttp://kyokuhp.ncgm.go.jp/eng/aboutus/access.html

Language

English only (No Japanese interpretation will be available)

Admission

Free of charge and open to general public. No advanceregistration required. Seating capacity: 40

SpeakerDr. Walaiporn Patcharanarumol has a BSc in Pharm from Khon Khaen University,Thailand (1992), MSc in Health Development from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand(1998), MSc in Social Protection Financing from Maastricht University, the Netherlands(2003) and a PhD in Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & TropicalMedicine (2008).
Her PhD thesis is “Health Care Financing for the Poor in Lao PDR”. She had working
experiences in public hospitals of Thailand for several years and has been a researcher
in health care financing at the International Health Policy Programme since 2001. Her
fields of interest include hospital costing, National Health Accounts, estimation ofhealth expenditures both in short term and long term projection and Universal Health
Coverage, particularly on the Universal Health Coverage Scheme in Thailand. During
August 2011–April 2012, she was seconded by the Thai Government to work at WHOHQ, Department of Health System Financing.
Dr. Walaiporn’s bio can be found on the RESYST
website: http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk/users/dr-walaiporn-patcharanarumol

第 11 回グローバルヘルス政策研究センターセミナー

開催報告

During the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum 2017 held in Tokyo, iGHP had aprivilege to invite Dr. Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Director of International Health
Policy Program (IHPP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, who gave us an invaluable
and substantive lecture on UHC. Dr. Walaiporn is one of the most successful andinfluential global health leaders in Thailand and beyond, and it was a wonderful
opportunity to listen to her in a very close and interactive setting.
As a health financing expert, Dr. Walaiporn made a presentation on Universal Health
Coverage and on Thailand’s unique experience over the past half a century in achieving
the country’s Universal Health Coverage Scheme. Some of the key messages she
delivered included 1) With strong political commitment, UHC can be launched andachieved at the low level of income; 2) Peace and sustained economic growth canmobilize ‘more money for health’; 3) Universal access to good quality essential healthservices is the real goal, not just affordable or cost-free services; 4)Building strong
capacity on the health system and policy research within the country is critical; and 5)
Participatory governance systems ensure real ownership.
During the seminar, Dr. Walaiporn created several discussion sessions to facilitate open
dialogues with the audience. From these very interactive and informative sessions, welearned that UHC is context-specific, therefore, each country must learn from othercountries’ model cases and experiences. In concluding the seminar, Dr. Walaiporn
stressed that the success of UHC in each country depends much on the spirit ofcommitted health workers, and that political and financial commitments as well as
countries’ capacity for evidence-based policy are the essential factors for bothsustainable and resilient health systems development and financial protection.