The Social Protection and Health Action Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS) Network is going to organize a virtual conference on Bridging the SDGs to optimise health-related social protection from 2-3 December 2020.
The main objectives:
• To share the experiences and results from the first four years of SPARKS and other similar research to identify lessons learned for broader work on health-related social protection and opportunities for scaling-up.
• To review the interlinkage between health-related social protection and universal health coverage, examine the place of health-related social protection in the SDGs, and identify promising entry-points for inter-sectoral action.
• To share country experiences of implementing and scaling up integrated action on social protection and UHC and identify lessons learned.
There is a session to discuss health-related social protection in the SDGs.
Dr Agnes Soucat, WHO Director for Health Systems Governance and Finance will speak about SDG3- UHC through social health protection: achievements and gaps on 2nd December session 2 from 14:50-15:05.
Other high-level officials from ILO, WPF, NGOs and CSOs will speak about the link with the SDG 1, SDG 2 and SDG 8.
Another session on country experiences of linking health and social protection in times of ill health will be on 3rd December from 15:55-16:55 where national country representatives from Ghana, Myanmar, Pakistan, Niger and others are invited to speak.
The SPARKS Network was established by LSHTM and the Karolinska Institute with WHO/GTB engagement in 2016. It promotes and facilitates research on health and social protection, including UHC and beyond, to help prevent ill-health and protect those affected by ill-health from devastating economic consequences. More info is available at https://sparksnetwork.ki.se/.
Registration link: click here.
