In a concerted effort to address significant gaps in social health protection for persons with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, the International Labour Organization (ILO) United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) CONNECT and P4H Network are organising a webinar Thursday, 27 June 2024, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Bangkok time). The webinar will present critical findings from recent research conducted in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Viet Nam on access to social health protection for persons with disabilities. The study highlights legal and operational barriers and proposes strategies to ensure more inclusive social health protection systems.
This is the third webinar of the series “Towards inclusive social protection systems: participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities” implemented jointly with a broad coalition of development partners. The session will feature international sign language interpretation, captioning, and simultaneous interpretation in English, Khmer, Lao, and Vietnamese.
Speakers
- Panudda Boonpala, Deputy Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific, ILO
- Charles Knox-Vydmanov, Consultant, ILO
- Phuong Nguyen Khanh, Director, Health Strategy and Policy Institute (Viet Nam)
- Boravin Ket, Program Coordinator, Agile (Cambodia)
- Ketmany Chanthakoumane, Deputy head of the Division for Health Policy and Health System Research, Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute (Lao PDR)
- Christine Phillips, Professor, Australia National University, Social Foundations of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Psychology (Australia)
- Alexandre Cote, Social policy specialist, UNICEF
- Lim Puay Tiak, Chairman, ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF)
- Moderator: Marielle Phe Goursat, Project Manager, ILO
- Moderator (Q&A): Yuta Momose, Social Protection Officer, ILO
The webinar is hosted by socialprotection.org
