Training in Qualitative Methods Health Seeking Behavior and Health Expenditure Tracking Study

Training in Qualitative Methods

Health Seeking Behavior and Health Expenditure Tracking Study

Surabaya 3, 4, dan 5 Desember 2012.

Potret dari kemakmuran rakyat diukur melalui berbagai indikator seperti bertambah tingginya tingkat pendapatan penduduk dari waktu ke waktu, kualitas pendidikan dan derajat kesehatan yang membaik, bertambah banyaknya penduduk yang menempati rumah layak huni, lingkungan permukiman yang nyaman bebas dari gangguan alam dan aman. Pelaksanaan beberapa program kesehatan oleh pemerintah untuk mencapai indikator-indikator tersebut telah dilaksanakan selama beberapa tahun ini. Program yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah, salah satunya dengan diluncurkannya beberapa macam jaminan untuk rakyat miskin agar bisa menjangkau ke fasilitas kesehatan. Bantuan-bantuan tersebut, antara lain; jamkesmas, jampersal, jamkesda, dan lain sebagainya. Bahkan program bantuan ini tidak dilakukan oleh pemerintah pusat saja, namun pemerintah daerah juga berpartisipasi.

Skema jaminan kesehatan yang telah diluncurkan oleh pemerintah sudah banyak diteliti. Saat ini muncul pertanyaan besar mengenai bagaimana sebenarnya utilisasi jaminan kesehatan tersebut oleh masyarakat, terutama masyarakat miskin, padahal pemerintah sudah mengeluarkan dana yang tidak sedikit untuk meluncurkan program-program tersebut. AusAID, Universitas Gadjah Mada dan Universitas Air langga bekerja sama untuk meneliti lebih lanjut pola pencarian layanan kesehatan oleh masyarakat miskin di Provinsi Jawa Timur beserta utilisasi program jaminan kesehatan oleh masyarakat miskin tersebut.

Secara khusus, tujuan dari penelitian ini antara lain melihat dari dua sisi, yaitu sisi permintaan (dari masyarakat/rumah tangga) dan dari sisi penawaran (dari pemerintah melalui pelayanan kesehatan primer di Puskesmas). Tujuan penelitian dari sisi permintaan yaitu : (1) Mengetahui jenis layanan kesehatan yang saat ini terdapat di Jawa Timur (pemerintah, pihak swasta), (2) Untuk mengidentifikasi penggunaan sumber daya kesehatan (formal dan non formal) oleh masyarakat miskin, (3) Mengidentifikasi penggunaan dan kualitas pelayanan perawatan primer dengan orang miskin dan hampir miskin di Jawa Timur, (4) Mengeksplorasi faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh dalam proses pengambilan keputusan mengenai penggunaan dari fasilitas kesehatan untuk mencari perawatan kesehatan, dan (5) Mengeksplorasi faktor sosial budaya yang berkontribusi ke kesehatan dan mencari perilaku masyarakat miskin dan hampir miskin, terutama faktor yang mungkin mengurangi penggunaan pelayanan kesehatan. Sedangkan dari sisi penawaran, yaitu pemberi layanan kesehatan, akan dianalisis (1) Identifikasi penggunaan sumber daya dan dana oleh pelayanan kesehatan dasar di PUSKESMAS, (2) Identifikasi perencanaan dan penganggaran, serta sumbatan dan hambatan yang ada di pelayanan kesehatan primer dengan focus kepada pelayanan kesehatan ibu dan anak dengan target kepada rumah tangga miskin dan hampir miskin di Jawa Timur, (3) Eksplorasi faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh dalam proses pengambilan keputusan mengenai perencanaan dan penganggaran bidang kesehatan dalam pelayanan kesehatan dasar di PUSKESMAS, (4) Studi dokumen perundangangan dan regulasi terkait pelayanan kesehatan dasar di PUSKESMAS.

Untuk provinsi Jawa Timur mengambil 4 kabupaten sebagai lokasi penelitian yaitu: Kabupaten Bangkalan, Kabupaten Bondowoso, Kabupaten Situbondo, Kabupaten Sampang, sedangkan 2 kabupaten untuk daerah perbandingan (comparison districts) adalah Kabupaten Sumenep, Kabupaten Probolinggo. Pengambilan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa pendekatan (metode) sehingga diharapkan data yang diperoleh dapat bermutu, berkualitas dan mencerminkan fakta yang terjadi di daerah penelitian. Kegiatan pelatihan metode kualitatif ini bertujuan untuk membahas lebih jauh mengenai pendekatan yang akan digunakan dalam pengambilan data penelitian.

Maksud dari pertemuan ini untuk menjelaskan mengenai metode penelitian,proses pengambilan data, dokumen terkait dan aplikasi metode kualitatif dalam pengambilan data penelitian di lapangan. Fokus dari pertemuan ini, memaparkan secara detail mengenai penelitian ini termasuk dari;

• Latar belakang

• Tujuan umum dan spesifik dari penelitian

• Pemaparan waktu penelitian

• Proses pengambilan data kualitatif

• Data apa yang dicari dan harus ditemukan dalam penelitian ini.

• Proses transkrip hasil focus group discussion dan indepth interview

Peserta pertemuan ini dapat mengetahui, dan terjadi;

• Terjadi kepahaman dan satu pengertian dalam berbagai proses tahap dalam pengambilan data,

• Mendapatkan data yang bermutu dan berkualitas. Sehingga data yang diperoleh merupakan gambaran dari wilayah penelitian.

• Seluruh pihak yang terkait dengan penelitian mengetahui tujuan umum dan spesifik dari penelitian.

• Selain itu juga terjadi kepemahaman untuk jobdesk atau deskripsi tugas masing-masing orang.

• Seluruh pihak yang terkait dalam penelitian mengetahui time line penelitian.

Berdasarkan kebutuhan tersebut di atas, pertemuan pembahasan penelitian ini akan dilakukan selama 3 hari penuh.

Pertemuan dilakukan dengan presentasi, diskusi dan latihan secara langsung dengan bimbingan narasumber.

Pertemuan ini akan dilakukan pada tanggal 3, 4, dan 5 Desember 2012 di Surabaya (tempat pelatihan tercantum dalam undangan)

Pelatihan ini diselenggarakan oleh AusAID bekerja sama dengan Universitas Gadjah Mada dan Universitas Air langga

Senin, 3 Desember 2012

08.00 – 08.30 : Registrasi

08.30 – 09.00 : Pembukaan oleh Kepala Dinas Kesehatan Provinsi Jawa Timur, perwakilan dari UGM dan perwakilan Unair.

09.00 – 10.30 : Overview penelitian oleh tim UGM

10.30 – 11.00 : Break/ istirahat

11.00 – 12.00 : Koordinasi dan diskusi dengan Dinkes Provinsi, Dinkes Kabupaten (6

kabupaten) dan BPS Provinsi

12.00 – 13.00 : Makan siang, istirahat, ibadah

13.00 – 14.00 : Penjelasan penelitian kualitatif secara umum, cara kerja penelitian dan tugas

masing-masing pihak

14.00 – 15.00 : Overview penelitian kualitatif dan kuantitatif

15.00 – 16.00 : Pemilihan lokasi dan sampel penelitian

Selasa, 4 Desember 2012

08.30 – 09.00 : Penjelasan mengenai "health seeking behavior" dan "health expenditure tracking study" (R. Siwi Padmawati - Deni Harbianto,UGM).

09.00 – 09.15 : Diskusi

09.15 – 10.00 : Penjelasan mengenai focus group discussion dan teknik memfasilitasi FGD

10.00 – 10.30 : Break/ istirahat

10.30 – 12.00 : Latihan memfasilitasi FGD

12.00 – 13.00 : Makan siang, istirahat, ibadah

13.00 – 14.00 : Penjelasan mengenai wawancara dan teknik wawancara

14.00 – 15.00 : Praktik wawancara (indepth interview)

15.00 – 16.00 : Overview bagaimana memahami dan beradaptasi dengan budaya lokal

Rabu, 5 Desember 2012 (Tim Health Seeking Behaviour)

08.30 – 09.00 : Penjelasan mengenai traskrip wawancara

09.00 – 09.15 : Penjelasan mengenai envivo dan open code

09.15 – 10.00 : Manajemen data kualitatif

10.00 – 10.30 : Break/ istirahat

10.30 – 12.00 : Praktik transkrip

12.00 – 13.00 : Makan siang, istirahat, ibadah

13.00 – 14.00 : Penjelasan mengenai koding dan kategorisasi

14.00 – 15.00 : Praktek koding dan kategorisasi

15.00 – 16.00 : Rencana pengambilan data di lapangan (pembagian kerja, sistem pelaporan,

honorarium)

Rabu, 5 Desember 2012 (Tim Health Expenditure Tracking Study)

08.30 – 09.00 : Penjelasan mengenai definisi operasional dan delivery order kegiatan

09.00 – 10.00 : Penjelasan mengenai study pengumpulan dokumen perundangan dan regulasi

10.00 – 10.30 : Break/ istirahat

10.30 – 12.00 : Manajemen Data dan Analisis Dokumen

12.00 – 13.00 : Makan siang, istirahat, ibadah

13.00 – 14.00 : Penjelasan mengenai instrument kualitatif dan kuesioner

14.00 – 15.00 : Praktek menggunakan kuesioner

15.00 – 16.00 : Rencana pengambilan data di lapangan (pembagian kerja, sistem pelaporan,

honorarium)

Pelatihan ini akan melibatkan koordinator studi masing-masing penelitian beserta seluruh enumerator atau pengambil data di lapangan. Secara detail peserta pelatihan adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Koordinator penelitian Health Seeking Behavior Study Universitas Air Langga

2. Koordinator penelitian Health Expenditure Tracking Study Universitas Air langga

3. Enumerator penelitian Health Seeking Behavior Study (8 orang) dari Provinsi Jawa Timur

4. Enumerator penelitian Health Expenditure Tracking Study (4 orang) dari Provinsi Jawa Timur

National Conference on Primary Health Care Education

Meeting: Family Medicine as the Care-Coordinator of Primary Health Care
and Its Implementation in Indonesian Higher Education Institutions"

Component 1. – Health Professional Education Quality (HPEQ Project)
Sub Component 1.2 – Development of Undergraduate Medical Education and Competency Standard

Makassar, 19 November 2012

BACKGROUND

One target of component 1-HPEQ program is the development of medical curriculum and competency standard. HPEQ, actually has conducted many meetings and preparations due to those points. Moreover, it also has its responsibility towards the establishment of "next SKDI" standard for medical students. But, before we move to our further journey, lets we rethink of our existing undergraduate medical curriculum, is it still reliable for 6 years ahead? Is it well prepared? Or, do we have to do something related to the nation development, especially in facing the universal coverage (SJSN) in 2014.

Looking back on the spirit of Alma Ata Declaration, 1978, entitled "The Health for All", which is stated that the main tasks of Indonesian national health sector are to maintain and to improve health care services for every citizen in Indonesia. To accomplish this, the health care system must prioritize promotion and preventive services along with disease management and rehabilitative efforts. To achieve this vision, the Indonesian national health system has some missions to carry out: (1) developing a medical system that is consistent with the national vision, (2) encouraging healthy life styles for both the individual and the community, (3) maintaining and improving individual, family and society including environmental health and the main point, (4) improving physician training and providing high quality and affordable health care regardless of the economic means of the family or community. It is a big dream, and need a systematic approach to make it real.

In line with this spirit, WHO on its report in 2008 stated that the main actor of country health status is the Primary Health Care. it is also stated that there are 4 pillars in the establishment of this sector: universal coverage, medical service, good leadership and policy. From this point, the main responsibility of Medical Faculty can be "how to produce the graduate doctor who can guide Indonesian people to reach their qualified health service". This initiative cannot be separated from interdisciplinary cooperation between education and health system perspective.

Previously, the SKDI standard (KKI, 2006) stated that the undergraduate medical curriculum should be oriented to family medicine, but what kind of the "family medicine/family doctor oriented" they want to produce? What kind of the family doctor that they want to use in guiding the SJSN? If, the government wants to use the existing doctors, whether they are able to overcome the patient's problem? Or do they need a special skill in primary health care level?

In the other hand, still focused on problems, list of diseases and statement of "family medicine oriented curriculum", it also lacks of the involvement of 7 areas of competencies such communication, and doctors awareness of patient as a member of their community. The education process still also focused on the teaching hospital. It is good, but may impact on the risk that graduate doctors meet many difficulties in handling patients in real cases. Green et al (2001) stated that the cases in teaching hospital are only represented 1% problems in the community. The arrangement of early exposure in primary care and community could be the best answer as the patient live in those settings.

Herewith we also want to explain the comparison of education between the primary care doctor and

other specialists:

From those points, the educational aspect plays the important role in guiding the SJSN 2014. It is, of course take time but not an impossible thing to achieve.

Previously, several meetings to rethink our Primary Health Care were held based on HPEQ project, from those, the consortium committee agreed to revitalize the Indonesian PHC condition as stated in the DECALARATION TOWARDS BETTER PHC WITH FAMILY DOCTORS AS THE CARE  KOORDINATORS (Jakarta 22 September 2012). They also had prepared its implementation in Indonesian Higher Education Institutions through educational and supporting document policies framework.

AIMS :

1. A national initiative towards accessible high quality primary health care with family doctors as the backbone for every citizen of Indonesia
2. To prepare of Indonesian medical faculties in implementing family medicine in their medical curriculum from undergraduate medical education to postgraduate family medicine masters and specialization
3. To build the critical mass and home-base for general practitioners and family doctors in Indonesia.

MEASURABLE OUTCOME

The commitment of Indonesian medical faculties in the implementation of family medicine educational approaches from undergraduate to postgraduate levels.

DATE AND PLACE

This conference meeting will be held on :
Date : 19 November 2012
Place : Makassar

DETAIL SCHEDULE(S) 

A tool for assessing Health Financing Institutions and Organizations,
to support progress to UHC

Presenter

Inke Mathauer
Health Systems Development Specialist
Health Financing Policy, WHO

Chair

John C. Langenbrunner
Lead Economist, HDNHE

Synopsis

A health financing system review is an important process to assess a country's current health financing performance and the way in which the three health financing functions of collection of funds, pooling and purchasing work. The WHO Department of Health Systems Financing has developed an approach that can help guide such a systematic health financing system review. Such a detailed understanding provides the basis to explore and propose adequate health financing policy options and institutional and/or organizational changes within the health financing system in order to enhance health financing performance and ultimately to move (more rapidly) towards universal coverage or maintain it in the long run.

The approach is called OASIS - Institutional and Organizational ASsessment for Improving and Strengthening Health Financing. This approach is complementary to the 2010 World Health Report's key messages by providing practical guidance of how to diagnose problems in a country's existing health financing system as a basis for identifying appropriate country policy options and actions for reaching universal coverage. The distinctive characteristic of this approach is its focus on institutional design and organizational practice of health financing, on which health financing performance is dependent. Health financing and the move towards universal coverage can be enhanced by actively shaping the institutional design of the health financing system and by improving its organizational practice.

About the Speaker

Inke Mathauer is a health systems development specialist, holding a MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. She is working in the Department of Health Systems Financing of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. Her work focuses on health financing system reviews, country-level health financing policy advice and conceptual work on health financing performance and the role of institutional design and organizational practice in health financing in low- and middle-income countries. Her current interest lies particularly in the institutional design of government subsidization programs for vulnerable groups in health insurance type schemes. She publishes on a range of health systems and health financing related aspects.

Prior to WHO, she worked for over 5 years for the German International Cooperation (GIZ, previously GTZ) at Headquarters in health systems development. In Kenya, she headed the quality management as well as health financing project activities of the GIZ supported health sector program and provided policy and technical advice to the Ministry of Health and the National Hospital Insurance Fund. Inke Mathauer has also undertaken several institutional analysis consultancies for the World Bank in the field of health and social protection. Earlier, she worked in Benin and Uganda.

Pengembangan Kelompok Riset dan Kurikulum

Manajemen dan Kebijakan Medik
di Fakultas Kedokteran

Selasa dan Rabu, 8 - 9 Januari 2013

Diselenggarakan oleh
Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia

bekerja sama dengan
Pusat Manajemen Pelayanan Kesehatan
Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta

 Deskripsi

Dalam pembangunan system kesehatan, pengembangan kebijakan medik merupakan hal yang diperlukan. Sebagai gambaran, pengembangan pelayanan dalam era BPJS membutuhkan berbagai pertimbangan klinik misalnya dalam penetapan INA-CBG, system monitoring mutu pelayanan, hubungan pelayanan primer-sekunder-tertier, daftar obat sampai ke pembayaran tenaga dokter dan pengembangan dokter primer dan dokter keluarga. Di samping itu pengembangan evidence based policy dalam pelayanan medik merupakan hal yang harus dikembangkan. Dalam pengembangan kebijakan medik ini ada berbagai tantangan sebagai berikut:

Tantangan pertama adalah belum terbiasanya peneliti dan dosen di fakultas kedokteran untuk melakukan penelitian kebijakanmedik dan menggunakannya dalam kurikulum. Secara tradisi peneliti di fakultas kedokteran menguasai metode penelitian epidemiologi, clinical trial, biomedik, namun jarang yang memahami ilmu-ilmu sosial sebagai dasar penelitian kebijakan kesehatan.

Tantangan kedua adalah Fakultas Kedokteran yang meneliti kebijakan kesehatan dan menggunakan dalam kurikulum pendidikan dokter dan pendidikan residen belum banyak jumlahnya di Indonesia. Mengapa? Dosen-dosen di fakultas kedokteran jarang yang terpapar oleh ilmu kebijakan.

Tantangan ketiga adalah sumber daya keuangan untuk menjalankan riset kebijakan medik belum banyak. Akan tetapi dalam era BPJS, diperlukan banyak penelitian untuk kebijakan medik untuk peningkatan efisiensi. Kesempatan penelitian inti tentunya perlu dimanfaatkan oleh fakultas kedokteran ,

Latar belakang tersebut di atas mendorong perlunya program pengembangan Kelompok Riset Kebijakan Kesehatan dan Kurikulum untuk mahasiswa dan residen di Fakultas Kedokteran.

  Tujuan Kegiatan

Kegiatan ini mempunyai dua sasaran kelompok yaitu: (1) unit penelitian di fakultas kedokteran dan (2) bagian IKM-IKK di fakultas kedokteran yang mempunyai potensi untuk pengembangan ilmu manajemen dan kebijakan medik.

Ada beberapa tujuan dalam pertemuan ini:

1. Merangsang penelitian kebijakan medik di fakultas kedokteran
2. Memperkuat pengajaran mengenai kebiajkan dan manajemen medik di program S1 dan di residensi.
3. Mengembangkan keanggotan di Jaringan Kebijakan Kesehatan.

 Agenda Kegiatan:
 

09.00 – 09.30: Sesi 1	Pembukaan, Perkenalan peserta,  dan Overview Kegiatan
09.30 - 10.30: Sesi 2	Apa yang disebut sebagai Kebijakan Medik? Bagaimana relevansinya untuk fakultas kedokteran? Bagaimana hubungannya dengan FKM? Pembicara: Laksono Trisnantoro Pembahas: Dekan FK UI
Break 10.30 – 10.45
10.45 – 12.00: Sesi 3	Memahami penelitian kebijakan medik dengan pendekatan evidence based-medicine dan evidence based policy Kasus: Penelitian-penelitian di RSCM: Prof. Dr. Akmal Taher Penelitian Cohrane Group: Dr. Detty Siti Nurdiati SpOG PhD   Moderator: dr. Tifa MSc
Break: Makan siang dan sholat
13.00 – 14.00: Sesi 4	Kebijakan mengenai pendapatan dokter pelayanan primer/dokter keluarga  dan dokter spesialis secara regional untuk keperluan BPJS. Jaringan Kebijakan Kesehatan Indonesia - Laksono Trisnantoro Pembicara : Andreasta Meliala Penyebaran dan Pendapatan Dokter (Spesialis) Pemerintah di Indonesia Pengalaman penelitian kebijakan bekerjasama dengan Nossal dan UNSW Pembahas : Perwakilan IDI Kompensasi Dokter Pelayanan Primer Dalam Era Jamkesnas - DR. Gatot Soetono, MPH
14.00 – 16.30: Sesi 5	Diskusi di kelompok masing-masing:   Apakah ada kegiatan penelitian mengenai kebijakan medik di fakultas kedokteran masing-masing? Apakah ada Unit Penelitian yang membahas Kebijakan Medik Peluang penelitian kebijakan Medik Peran dari Jaringan Kebijakan Kesehatan Indonesia Fasilitator: Prof. Dr. Laksono Trisnantoro MSc PhD
Break singkat di dalamnya
Hari 2
08.30 – 10.15	Diskusi mengenai Pendidikan manajemen dan kebijakan di S1 FK dan di Residensi Di Mana Pengembangan Pengajaran Ilmu Kebijakan dan Manajemen di Fakultas Kedokteran? Health System and its outcomes - Laksono Trisnantoro
10.15 – 10.30	Coffe Break
10.30 – 12.00	Diskusi Kelompok: Bagaimana situasi di fakultas kedokteran anda? Jelaskan dengan rinci. Bagaimana letak pengembangan pengajaran ilmu kebijakan dan manajemen di fakultas kedokteran anda saat ini dan bagaimana di masa mendatang. Di Bagian mana yang menjadi motor? Bagian mana yang dapat aktif ? Siapa saja staf dosen yang aktif dalam mengembangkan ilmu kebijakan dan manajemen saat ini dan di masa mendatang? Bagaimana teknik pengembangan dengan menggunakan website? Darimana dana pengembangannya? Apakah memungkinkan untuk berlangganan?
12.00 – 12.15	Pleno dan PoA Penggunaan Website dan buku elektronik sebagai forum komunikasi untuk pengembangan materi, dan kerjasama antar institusi. Diskusi Perencanaan Kedepan
12.15 – 13.00	Makan Siang
13.00 – 14.00	Launching Website - Website PMPK FK UGM

Peserta:

Tiap FK diwakili oleh 2 orang

1. Wakil dari Dekanat: Wakil Dekan urusan Penelitian/Pusat Studi terkait
2. Kepala Bagian IKK/IKM

Peserta yang diundang:

1. FK Universitas Andalas
2. FK Universitas Indonesia
3. FK Universitas Padjadjaran
4. FK Universitas Maranatha
5. FK Universitas Trisakti
6. FK Universitas Diponegoro
7. FK Universitas Gadjah Mada
8. FK Universitas Airlangga
9. FK Universitas Hasannudin
10. FK Universitas Nusa Cendana
11. FK Universitas Sam Ratulangi
12. FK Universitas Brawijaya
     

Tempat Penyelenggaran:

Hotel Santika Jakarta, Jl. KS. Tubun, Jakarta.

The Potential and Challenges of Health Technology
Assessment: Insights from Experience in Europe
 

Prof. Reinhard Busse
Technische Universitat Berlin/
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

The role and functioning of health technology assessment (HTA) in European health systems. An overview of where HTA fits in the overall health system; how HTA is operationalized (e.g the process and procedural arrangements for conducting assessments across countries; and how HTA findings are used to influence the allocation of health funding in Europe.

Josep Figueras
Director
European Observatory on Health Systems

The experience of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies in trying to bring high-quality evidence and knowledge into policy making. The Observatory supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health systems in Europe. It is widely regarded as the most effective evidence-to-policy bridging institution. Efforts to emulate their successful approach have recently been launched in other regions

Chair
April Harding
Lead Public Private Partnerships Specialist, WBIPP

Synopsis

New technologies with the potential to improve the health of populations through more effective care are continuously being introduced. However, not every technological development results in net health gains. The history of medicine and health includes many examples of technologies which did not produce the expected benefits or even proved to be harmful. However, technologies of proven effectiveness - i.e. those associated with health improvements - create a continuous challenge for health systems since adopting them may require additional (and not only financial) resources or existing (finite) resources to be redistributed within the health system. This is a challenges faced by healthcare systems throughout the world. It is necessary to ensure that health technologies are evaluated properly and applied in ways that realize their potential gains. In order to optimize care using the available resources, the most effective technologies should be promoted, taking into consideration organizational, societal and ethical issues. Health technology assessment (HTA) aims to inform health policy and decision-making on health technologies precisely on these issues. HTA has a strong foundation in research on the health effects and broader implications of the use of technology in health care. Its potential for contributing to safer and more effective health care is widely acknowledged in across developing and developed countries alike, and interest in this field has been growing steadily.

About the Speakers

Professor Reinhard Busse is professor and department head for health care management at Technische Universität Berlin. He is the Observatory's Associate Head of Research Policy and Head of the Berlin hub, member of several scientific advisory boards and a regular consultant for WHO, the EU Commission, OECD and other international organizations within Europe and beyond as well as national health and research institutions. His research focuses on the methods and contents of comparative health system analysis, health services research including payment methods (e.g. DRGs), and health technology assessment (HTA). In 2008 he co-edited a volume "Health technology assessment and health policy-making in Europe: Current Status, Challenges and Potential."

Josep Figueras, MD, MPH, PhD (econ) is the Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and head of the WHO European Centre on Health Policy in Brussels. In addition to WHO, he has served other major multilateral organizations such as the European Commission and the World Bank. He is a member of several advisory and editorial boards and has advised more than forty countries within the European region and beyond. He is member of APHEA board of accreditation; honorary fellow of the UK faculty of public health medicine, has twice been awarded the EHMA prize, and in 2006 received the Andrija Stampar Medal. He was head of the MSc in Health Services Management at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and is currently visiting professor at Imperial College, London. His research focuses on comparative health system and policy analysis. He is editor of the European Observatory series published by Open University Press. He has published several volumes in this field, most recently Health systems, health and wealth: assessing the case for investing in health systems (2012) and Health professional mobility and health systems (2011).