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Thursday June 12, 2025

9 am Brasilia / 2 pm Geneva
3 pm Nairobi / 5 pm Islamabad (90 minutes)

 
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Dear ,

Over the past two decades, Brazil has significantly improved its key health indicators, expanded access to healthcare, and reduced health inequalities. These achievements were made possible by a sustained shift towards Primary Health Care (PHC), supported by major health financing reforms.

This webinar has two main objectives:

a) To provide an insider’s perspective on Brazil’s PHC reorientation—highlighting its successes and ongoing challenges.
b) To extract key lessons from Brazil’s experience that can inform health system reforms in other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Contributors from Kenya and Pakistan will offer comparative insights.

Looking forward to sharing this session with you,

The webinar team

Agenda

• Opening— Isidore Sieleunou (GFF)
• Framing — Adelson Guaraci-Jantsch (Brazil)
• Panel — Jacklyne Ashubwe (Kenya), Shabana Haider (Pakistan)

                Chairing: Fahdi Dkhimi (WHO)
• Key messages — Faraz Khalid (WHO)

Speakers

Photo Isidore Sieleunou

Isidore Sieleunou provides strategic and technical support for the operationalization of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) country programmes. He also spearheads the GFF's agenda on primary health care financing within the GFF Health Financing workstream. With over two decades of leadership in global health, he brings deep expertise in health financing and health systems strengthening. Prior to his tenure at the GFF, Isidore served in senior advisory roles across major multilateral organizations, including the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF.

Photo Adelson Guaraci Jantsch

Adelson Guaraci Jantsch is a family physician, researcher, and consultant committed to advancing PHC both in Brazil and abroad. He leads educational and international cooperation efforts at Universidade Aberta do SUS, serves as Technical Advisor at the Health Care Intelligence Hub at the Rio de Janeiro's Health Department, and contributes as an associate editor of BMC Primary Care. In Brazil, he also collaborates with the Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and Rio de Janeiro Health Department.

Photo Jacklyne Ashubwe

Jacklyne Ashubwe is a medical doctor consulting in public health and knowledge. She has local and international expertise in evaluations of public health programs, primary research and effective communication of research to support evidence-informed decision-making. Additionally, she mentors researchers and public health practitioners to carry out research and effectively communicate their evidence to decision-makers. Her passion lies in using these competencies to strengthen health services delivery at the primary health care level.

Photo Shabana Haider

Shabana Haider has over 15 years' experience in health systems strengthening, policy development, and sustainable financing across LMICs. As Country Director of ThinkWell Global in Pakistan, she leads strategic initiatives in health financing, human resources, governance, and systems reform. She has been also the Senior Health Advisor to the World Bank on National Health Support Program. Shabana holds a master of science in global health, a master's in public policy, a medical degree and certifications in human resources for health and health financing.

Photo Fahdi Dkhimi

Fahdi Dkhimi is a health financing technical advisor at the WHO. He has worked there since 2016 to support Member States on issues of strategic purchasing of health services. During his 20 years of experience, Fahdi has also supported various governments in the assessment, formulation and implementation of financing policies to improve the coverage of people working in the informal sector, as well as on innovative strategies for organizational strengthening of ministries of health. Fahdi holds a master’s degree in development economics and a master’s degree in public health.

Photo Faraz Khalid

Faraz Khalid is managing the collaborative learning and knowledge management workstream within the Special Programme on PHC at WHO Headquarters. Before this role, he coordinated the UHC Partnership at WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office and has contributed to policy development, program implementation, and strategic health initiatives. He also worked as a health systems and financing consultant with WHO, UNICEF, the Asian Development Bank, and USAID. Faraz holds a PhD in global health policy and management, a master’s in public health, a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery.

 

This webinar is the 11th of our series

 
 
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