PANEL 2: Key Questions from the Policy‐Maker Perspective
The second morning panel was hosted by Dr. Wafaa El‐Sadr, Director of ICAP Columbia, and Dr. Estelle Quain, Senior Technical Advisor for Human Resources for Health and Team Leader for Health Systems Strengthening in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID. Panelists included Mr. Benedict Xaba, the Honorable Minister of Health of Swaziland, Dr. Faustine Ndugulile, Vice‐Chairman of the Parliamentary Social Services Committee in Tanzania’s Parliament, Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu, State Minister for Health Programs for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dr. Ibrahim Mohamed, Director of Kenya’s National AIDS/STI Control Programme in the Ministry of Medical Services, and Dr. Yogan Pillay, Deputy Director General of Strategic Health Programmes at South Africa’s Department of Health. The discussion revolved around the need to align research and modeling with policy and national contexts, and the challenges of fostering early dialogue between national policymakers and researchers. Each of the speakers gave examples of health Ministry information needs and priorities, from health workforce modeling to cost projections to questions about optimizing service delivery models. (A webcast of the proceedings is available on the meeting website).
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