Program

Agenda:

Day 1, Wednesday, July 19

SessionTimeSpeaker/Facilitator
Breakfast8:00Everyone
Opening9:00Victor Dzau
NASEM
Welcome and General Introductions9:10Bob Phillips
Center for
Professionalism &
Value in Healthcare
Setting the Stage: Strengthening PHC around the globe and in the US: Astana and NASEM Reports
– Keynote: 25 mins
– Q&A: 10 mins
9:25Keynote:
Atul Gawande
United States Agency
for International
Development, USAID
Paying differently for Primary Care: Applying lessons learned to
improve health
10:10Keynote:
Liz Fowler

Center for Medicare
and Medicaid
Services, CMMI
Panel: Promoting health equity by investing in PHC
– Jim Macrae, Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA)
– Roman Macaya, Costa Rica
– Purva Rawal, CMMI
10:30Chris Koller
Milbank
Memorial Fund
Lunch11:25Everyone
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Initiative to
Strengthen Primary Health Care
1:00Keynote:
Admiral Rachel
Levine

HHS
Panel: Addressing the Crisis of Mental Health and Substance Use
Disorder and the role of PHC
– Rachel Pryor, HHS
– Tori Solt, Veterans Administration
– Brenda Reiss-Brennan, Intermountain Health
– John Naslund, Harvard University
1:30Ben Miller
Wellbeing Trust
Panel: Strengthening the connection between
Primary Care and Public Health
– Freddy Chen, American Medical
Association (AMA)
– Salman Rawaf, Imperial College London &
World Health Organization (WHO)
– Laura Parajon, Department of Health
(DOH) New Mexico
– Salim Hussein, Ministry of Health, Kenya
2:20Karen Hacker
Center for Disease
Control (CDC)
Break3:10Everyone
Panel: Health Security and PHC Strategy
– Ian Williams, CDC
– Sangeeta Rana, USAID
– Nedret Emiroglu, WHO
– Bernardo Martorell, PAHO
3:35Herbert Wolfe
Department of
Homeland Security
(DHS)
The Essential Role of PHC for Health Security and Securing Health4:20Keynote:
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghabreyesus
World Health Organization
Day One take-aways:
– Challenges of strengthening PHC in the US and globally
– US taking major step toward PHC to strengthen health security and secure health
– Details about Canadian Embassy reception
4:30Deb Cohen
University of Oregon

Lauren Hughes
University of Colorado
Reception: Canadian Embassy

501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 3rd floor, Washington, DC 20001

Panel: Building the Workforce Foundation of High Quality Primary
Care
– Danielle Martin, University of Toronto
– Björg Pálsdóttir, Training for Health Equity Network
– Zahray Talib, California University of Science and Medicine
Event begins
5:30
Warren Newton
American Board of
Family Medicine
(ABFM)

Day 2, Thursday, July 20

SessionTimeSpeaker/Facilitator
Breakfast8:00Everyone
Welcome and Recap of Day 19:00Bob Phillips
Center for
Professionalism &
Value in Healthcare
Investment, Innovation, and Implementation of PHC for improved health systems resiliency and outcomes in the Americas9:15Keynote:
Jarbas Barbosa

Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO)
Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care: Preventing and Mitigating the Next Pandemic9:50Keynote:
Tom Frieden

Resolve To Save Lives (RTSL)
Panel: Pandemic Resilience
– Michael Kidd, University of New South Wales
– Manuela Uribe, World Bank
10:15Michael Kidd
Break10:35Everyone
Panel: Progress and Challenges with PC/PHC Measurement
– Diana Frymus, USAID
– Suraya Dalil, WHO
– Judith Steinberg, HHS
– Corrine Lewis, Commonwealth Fund
11:00Asaf Bitton
Ariadne Labs
Panel: Research – Assessing the Power of PHC
– Luke Allen, London School for Hygiene
– Rick Glazier, Canadian Institutes of Health
– Laura Sessums, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ)
– Bob Mash, South Africa PRIMAFED Project
11:50Kurt Stange
Case Western
University
Lunch12:30Everyone
Regional Reports: Increasing sustainable investment in PHC and health systems around the world
– Cicely Thomas, Global Financing Facility (GFF)/World Bank
(WB)
– Anna Stavdal, World Organization of Family Doctors
(WONCA)
– Harsh Bakshi, State Health System Resource
Centre-Gujarat, India
– Loyce Pace, HHS Office of Global Affairs (OGA)
1:35James Fitzgerald
PAHO
Huddle task description and break-out into huddle topics2:25Asaf Bitton
Ariadne Labs
Committing to Smart Collaborations
1. Reallocating resources to better leverage PHC
2. Measurement and accountability of PHC
3. The next generation PHC workforce
2:35Huddles
Huddle Report Outs4:00Moderators
Closing: Hope is a discipline4:10Asaf Bitton,
Ariadne Labs

Registration details: If interested in attending, please reach out to Mikel Severson at mseverson@theabfm.org  

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