Director of AIHD, and Executive Director of AUN-HPN attended the fifth episode entitled “The Future of the Hospital”, as part of the newly-launched “The Future of Health” conversation series held by the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, through its new Planetary and Global Health Program
Director of AIHD, and Executive Director of AUN-HPN attended the fifth episode entitled “The Future of the Hospital”, as part of the newly-launched “The Future of Health” conversation series held by the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, through its new Planetary and Global Health Program
9 June 2021
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phudit Tejativaddhana, MD, Director of the ASEAN Institute for Health Development and Executive Director of ASEAN University Network for Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN) attended the fifth episode entitled “The Future of the Hospital”, as part of the newly-launched “The Future of Health” conversation series held by the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, through its new Planetary and Global Health Program on June 9, 2021, Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 pm Manila time.
This webinar was co-presented by 20 different organizations: Department of Health; Rappler; Harvard Club of the Philippines; Zuellig Family Foundation; University of Asia & the Pacific School of Law and Governance; Development Academy of the Philippines Graduate School of Public and Development Management; Management Association of the Philippines; Philippine Futures Thinking Society; Philippine Society for Public Health Physicians; Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations; Center for Engaged Foresight; Health Justice; PH Lab; Likhaan Center for Women’s Health Inc.; Asian Center for Drug Policy; Health Care Without Harm; Civika Asian Development Academy; Southeast Asia Climate and Health Alliance; Healthy Philippines Alliance; and Asian Medical Students Association-Philippines.
The seminar was organized as a platform to exchange opinions between foreign experts, academics and health leaders in the Philippines about how to support government policies in hospital development and consequently support future health care for the Philippines people. The meeting highlighted the role of the hospital in shifting the prioritization from defence to proactive work that focus on health promotion. Budget allocations should be adjusted to focus on health improvement rather than treatment. Several examples were considered to make this happen such as: encouraging teamwork between different professions, transferring health care skills from the medical profession to other professions, promoting the role of nurses, or using information and digital technologies to make health services more accessible and at lower costs.
The panellists included:
Dr. Arturo De La Peña, President & Chief Executive Officer, St. Luke’s Medical Center;
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity & Former Minister of Health, Rwanda;
Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, Board Member, Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations & Vice President, Cancer Coalition of the Philippines;
Prof. Valéry Ridde, Director of Public Health Research, CEPED/IRD/University of Paris, France & ISED/UCAD, Senegal;
Dr. Aileen Espina, Member, Healthcare Professionals Alliance Against COVID-19 & Former Chief, Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, and;
Sonia Roschnik, International Climate Policy Director, Health Care Without Harm.
Moderator: Dr. Renzo Guinto, Associate Professor of the Practice of Global Public Health and Inaugural Director of the Planetary and Global Health Program of the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial.
