WONCA EXPERTS JOIN “LET’S TALK PRIMARY HEALTH CARE”

The WHO European Centre for Primary HealthCarehostsamonthlytalkshowcalled Let’s Talk Primary Health Care. The show is targeted at policy-makers, influencers, implementers and health managers primarilyintheWHOEuropeanRegion

These dynamic, conversation-style, actively moderated, 1-hour online events explore a giventopicrelatedtostrengtheningprimary healthcare.

Thepaneltypicallyincludes1moderatorand upto4guestswhoareeitherprimaryhealth care experts or national/subnational decision-makers/implementers from MemberStatesoftheWHOEuropeanRegion.

Therehasbeenatotalof11showwhichare availableHERE.

The latest episode of "Lets Talk Primary Health Care" took place on Tuesday, March 7th, from. The session focused on the challenges facing primary healthcare and featured a panel of experts, including Dr María Pilar Astier-Peña, family doctor and WONCA Executive Member at Largewho sharedherownexperiences

The panel was moderated by Dr Melitta Jakab and Dr Joseph Figeras, and also included Dr Katherine Rouleau, the Global PHC lead for the Office of Health Systems PartnershipattheDepartmentofFamilyand Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Dr Kristina Zutielene, a family doctor and assistant professor at the Lithuanian University Hospital Kaunas Clinic inLithuania.

ThisisnotthefirsttimethatWONCAexperts havecollaboratedonthesebroadcasts.

WONCA Europe Past President, Prof Dr Mehmet Ungan was part of the first episode “Priority setting of PHC services during the pandemic”,whichairedinApril2021