The collaborative role of the global patient organisation community in advancing social participation for universal health coverage

Our WHA78 side event will explore how to optimise the impact of the resolution through thoughtful and trusted cooperation and partnership at all levels. We will discuss how we can harness opportunities for the patient organisation community to play an integral role in decision-making, in particular in the context of universal health coverage (UHC), and how we can address barriers and monitor progress.

We will also unpack the role of social participation as a driving force and unifier for advancing universal health coverage, with the UHC Compass serving as an accelerator for the patient organisation community, and why collaboration, synergy and solidarity are prerequisites for meaningful change, leaving no one behind in a period of global uncertainty and turbulence.

Programme speakers include:

• Nanoot Mathurapote, Head, Global Collaboration Unit, National Health Commission Office, Thailand
• Gabriele Pastorino, Health Systems Adviser, Special Programme on Primary Health Care, World Health Organization HQ
• Dr Pamela Cipriano, Co-chair, UHC2030
• Amanda Bok, Chief Partnerships Officer, The Synergist
• Jennifer Austin, CEO, GlobalSkin
• Alexandra Heumber Perry, CEO, Rare Diseases International
• Prof Lara Bloom, Board Vice-chair, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO); President & CEO, The Ehlers-Danlos Society
• Dani Mothci, CEO, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO)