Financing for Cancer and Chronic Disease Care in Emerging Markets

This well-attended session brought together high-profile speakers with first hand public health experience to offer perspectives on addressing the unrecognized burden of chronic disease in low-resource settings with adequate funding, systems and priority. Presentations and discussions focused on how the current models of funding and global health programs could address different and complex challenges posed by cancer and chronic disease management in countries with emerging economies.

		Presentation	Presenter	Podcast
		Global Health Conference - Whole meeting
		Introduction and welcome	Jan Lindsten, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Karolinksa Institute
		The rise of cancer and chronic diseases in developing countries	Timothy De Ver Dye, PhD, MA, MPA VP Global Health Systems Axios International
		Death in the shade of the world’s attention	Jeremiah Norris Director – Center for Science in Public Policy, Hudson Institute
		Financing chronic disease care – what does the policy maker need to know?	Olusoji Adeyi, MD, DrPh, MBA Coordinator Public Health Programs The World Bank
		Microcare; Group micro-insurance covering chronic disease care in Uganda	Gerry Noble, MD, DCH, DObs, DTM&H Director – Microcare Uganda

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