SESSION 8: HOLDING IT TOGETHER: PRIMARY CARE INFRASTRUCTURE

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) invites you to a ten-part seminar series that will run from October 2022toJuly2023.

The series provides an overview of the key features and functions of PHC, the potential of PHC in all health systems and its role in achievinguniversalhealthcoverage Sessions drawonexamplesacrossdifferentsettings

Session eight of a ten-part series examining “Primary Health Care: At the heart of every health system” running on the first Wednesday of each month throughout the 2022/23academicyear.

The seminar series provides an overview of the key functions and features of PHC; its potential in achieving universal health coverage and its role in global health Seminars are led by speakers working in a rangeofsettings.

Sessionsarefreeandopentoall

In this session speakers will examine the infrastructureneededtosupportasuccessful PHC system and primary care service delivery,andwilllookindepthattheroleof (electronic)healthrecords.

Speakers

LuisaPettigrew,LSHTM

LuisaPettigrew,LSHTMisapracticingGPand currentlyresearchestheroleofinspectionsin generalpracticeandtheirimpactonquality

LeonardBaatiema,UniversityofGhana

Leonard Baatiema is a Lecturer at the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health, University of Ghana and a Fogarty Global HealthFellowatHarvardTH ChanSchoolof Public Health, Harvard University. His research interests span health systems strengthening, primary health care, governance, and leadership in healthcare, implementing change in healthcare, knowledge translation, human resource for health, health policy analysis and noncommunicationdiseases

KatherineRouleau,UniversityofToronto

Katherine Rouleau is a family physician at Unity Health-St-Michael’s Hospital At the University of Toronto, she is associate professor,Vice-ChairoftheGlobalHealthand SocialAccountabilityanddirectoroftheWHO CollaboratingCentreonFamilyMedicineand Primary Care in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Her clinical and academicinterestsincludehealthequity,the role of family medicine and primary care in strengthening health systems locally and globally, global health education, the scholarship-leadership continuum and the careofdisadvantagedpopulationsinCanada andabroad

LiamSmeeth,LSHTM

Liam Smeeth is professor of clinical epidemiology and Director of the London SchoolofHygieneandTropicalMedicine He isalsoapracticingdoctoringeneralpractice

During his career he has been supported by fellowships from MRC, NIHR and Wellcome He was previously a Trustee of the British Heart Foundation and a non-executive director of the Medicines and Healthcare productsRegulatoryAgency Heisamember of the strategic oversight committee for UK Biobank and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Much of his research is based on making better use of computerised clinical data for research, and he co-led the creation of the OpenSafely resourceinresponsetotheCovidpandemic.

Chairs

ThissessionwillbechairedbyLukeAllenand JosephineExley

Admission

Free and open to all, online and in person. No registration required A recording of this session will be available after the event on thispage.

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Upcoming Sessions

Jun2023,Measuring,regulating, andimprovingPrimaryCare

Jul23,PanelDiscussion:Primary HealthCareattheheartofevery healthsystem-anachievable dream?

Learn more about the rest of the events in thisseries