PHFI lecture on The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health report “Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation” on 2nd Feb 2015, New Delhi

New Delhi, 2015 – 
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) lecture on THE LANCET COMMISSION ON INVESTING IN HEALTH’S REPORT “GLOBAL HEALTH 2035: A WORLD CONVERGING WITHIN A GENERATION”. The talk will be delivered by PROFESSOR DEAN JAMISON, SENIOR FELLOW IN GLOBAL HEALTH SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO AND AN EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ON 2ND FEB 2015 FROM 4PM – 5.30PM (FOLLOWED BY HIGH TEA) AT LAKSHMIPATI SINGHANIA HALL, PHD HOUSE, OPPOSITE SIRI FORT AUDITORIUM, AUGUST KRANTI MARG, NEW DELHI.

As the Co-Chair and Study Director of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, Prof Jamison’s talk comes at a time when the Modi government, which came to power on the promises of upgradation of basic health infrastructure and making medical services affordable to the poor, heads for its annual budget session. India, the world’s second most populous nation, spends no more than 1% of its GDP on healthcare and its public spending on healthcare is among the lowest in the world. Over the years public spending on healthcare has rarely seen the growth needed to keep pace with other economic factors. Prof Jamison’s talk will specifically highlight the implications of the Lancets CIH report for India’s health investments, and the opportunities and steps for India to reach convergence.

Professor Dean Jamison is a Senior Fellow in Global Health Sciences at UCSF and an Emeritus Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. Prof Jamison previously held academic appointments at Harvard and UCLA and was an economist on the staff of the World Bank where he was lead author of The Bank’s World Development Report, 1993. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health is an independent report by a group of 25 renowned global health experts and economists. Their report, Global Health 2035: A world converging within a generation provides a roadmap for the international community and low- and middle-income countries to achieve dramatic health gains within one generation. Global Health 2035 makes the case that:

* The returns on investing in health are even greater than previously estimated

* Within a generation–by 2035–the world could achieve a “grand convergence,” bringing preventable infectious, maternal and child deaths down to universally low levels

* Taxes and subsidies are a powerful and underused lever for curbing non-communicable diseases and injuries

* Progressive universalism, a pathway to universal health coverage (UHC) that targets the poor from the outset, is an efficient way to achieve health and financial protection.
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