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Background Note for International Advisory Panel
Minutes of the International Advisory Panel
The
1st meeting of Hon’ble HFM with the International Advisory
Panel led by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs was held on the 3rd August
2006. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of Center on Globalization and
Sustainable Development of the Earth Institute at Columbia University,
New York. In this meeting, IAP had
discussed several health sector issues on NRHM focusing on the following
aspects:
Contextualizing
NRHM within the public health framework
Consensus and focus on
health sector reforms across various States
Quality, training and
career progression for the health manpower – defining standards for skill
development
Decentralization and
developing management systems including data management as policy
instruments
Financing, including
insurance and risk protection for the poor
Improving nutrition,
maternal and child health (MCH)
Addressing emerging
non communicable diseases and other major public health challenges
Harnessing the resources of the private sector for engagement under NRHM.
Management of
HT & cardiovascular diseases in rural areas.
Management of
neglected tropical diseases, and Control of malaria.
Thereafter 2nd meeting of Hon’ble HFM with IAP was held on 7th
August 2007 and in addition to above issues, several other issues relating
to progress under NRHM was discussed in detail and following points came
out of the meeting:
Focus on improving the quality of care in Institutional delivery.
Integration of PPI
with the Routine Immunization to build on the mass mobilizations of polio.
Development of Model
districts in each state for replication and scaling up
Blended payments to
ASHA including fixed honorarium & Performance based incentives.
Focus on global
warming through research to control them.
Importance of PPP
within overarching framework of NRHM.
Importance of disease
surveillance and Intersectoral coordination.
Need for credible
external assessment of programme.
The 3rd
meeting of Hon’ble HFM with the IAP is scheduled to be held on the 9th
February 2008. In this meeting, following members of the International
Advisory Panel (IAP) are expected to attend:
Dr Jeffrey D. Sachs
(Chairman of the IAP): Director, the Earth Institute at Columbia
University
Dr Nirupam Bajpai:
Senior Development Adviser and Director of the South Asian Programs,
Center for Globalization & Sustainable Development, the Earth Institute at
Columbia University
Dr Charles Gardner:
Advisor to the World Health Organization; and Adjunct Research Scientist,
the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Dr Prabhat Jha:
Research Chair of Health and Development and Associate Professor of Public
Health Sciences; the University of Toronto; and, Founding Director of the
Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael's Hospital
Dr Usha Kiran: The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr Dan Kraushaar:
Deputy Director for Global Health Strategies, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
Dr Stephen R. Leeder:
Director, the Australian Health Policy Institute and Co-Director of the
Menzies Centre for Health Policy
Dr Kedar Mate:
Partners in Health
Dr Joanna Rubinstein:
Chief of Staff to Jeffrey D. Sachs; Director of Strategic Programs; and
Director of the Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED),
the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Dr Sonia Ehrlich
Sachs: Health Coordinator of the Millennium Village Project, the Earth
Institute at Columbia University
Dr Mathuram Santosham:
Professor of International Health and Pediatrics; Director of the Health
Systems Program; and, Director of the Center for American Indian Health,
Johns Hopkins University
The major issues
which are likely to be discussed during the discussion with the Indian
delegation are as follows:
Review of the
discussion of the last meeting on NRHM
Process of health
structure reforms
Human resources
required at different levels and new training in public health,
decentralization and local management
Financing, including
insurance and risk protection for the poor
Improving nutrition
and maternal and child health (MCH)
Addressing emerging
non communicable diseases
Public health
approaches for HIV/AIDS, Malaria,Kala-Azar & T.B
Public - Private
Partnership for providing essential health services
Providing affordable high tech costly health care
Issue of Governance and delivery of health services
Reaching out to the tribal population and underserved areas
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