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20 May 2021 - TO-REACH Conference - Implementing and transferring innovations across health systems

Event Date: 
2021-05-20

The TO-REACH project is pleased to invite you to its final conference, 'Implementing and transferring innovations across health systems'. The conference will take place digitally on Thursday, 20 May 2021 from 10.00 (CEST).

Discover the conference program and join us to discuss the future of European health systems and service research!

 

SESSION 1 - 10.00 – 10.30
Health systems and services in time of COVID-19

  • Dr. Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe at the World Health Organization
  • Ms. Maya Matthews, Head of Unit - Performance of national health systems, DG SANTE, European Commission
  • Prof. Walter Ricciardi, Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the TO-REACH project

Moderated by Dr. Josep Figueras, Director at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Belgium

 

SESSION 2 - 10.30 – 11.15
What are key priorities when studying service and policy innovation in health systems?

  • Keynote address by Dr. Johan Hansen, Senior Researcher at NIVEL, The Netherlands

    Panel discussion with:
  • Prof. Silvio Brusaferro, President at Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy
  • Dr. Claudia Habl, Deputy head of the health economics department, Austrian Public Health Institute (GÖG)
Moderated by Dr. Nick Fahy, Expert Adviser on innovation and implementation at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, UK
 

SESSION 3 - 11.15 – 12.00
What do we know about transferring service and policy innovations between health systems?

  • Keynote address by Prof. Ellen Nolte, Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

    Panel discussion with:
  • Prof. Karine Chevreul, Director of the ECEVE team, INSERM, France
  • Ms. Valentina Polylas, Director at European Regional and Local Health Authorities (EUREGHA), Belgium
Moderated by Dr. Nick Fahy, Expert Adviser on innovation and implementation at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, UK
 

SESSION 4 - 12.00 – 12.30
What’s next? The future of health systems and service research

  • Keynote address by representative of DG RTD, European Commission
  • Comment by Ms. Sabrina Montante, National Institute of Health of Italy - Italian Representative within the MS-AC Core Group for the Transforming Health and Care Systems Partnership  

 

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