Prof Soonman Kwon, Director of World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health System and Financing, was invited to attend the sixty eighth Regional Committee Meeting (RCM) of the WHO Western Pacific Region (WPR) in Brisbane, Australia from 9-13 October 2017. WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom and Regional Director Dr Shin
Young-soo addressed the meeting. The annual meeting of health ministers and senior officers from 37 countries and areas in the WHO Western Pacific Region covering
1.9 billion people was convened to decide on important issues: eliminating
major communicable diseases including mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
hepatitis B and syphilis, measles and rubella; financing of priority public
health services; strengthening regulation of medicines and the health
workforce; improving food safety; and health promotion for sustainable
development. In the 68th RCM, a side event on ‘Responding
to the need for specialized tertiary care in small island states’ was convened
during the lunch time on 13 October 2017; it had three objectives: i)
strengthen understanding of key issues related to cost
pressures faced by small island states in responding to the need for
specialized tertiary care; ii) discuss the information needed for sound
decision-making and where/how to access it; and iii) discuss the elements of a
framework to guide the decision-making process. The side event was moderated by
Dr Vivian Lin, Director for Health Systems, WHO WPRO, and the Regional Director
made brief opening remarks. Prof Soonman Kwon attended the event as a panelist and
discussed the recent study led by Prof Soonman Kwon on the Cost-Benefit
Analysis of radiation oncology services in Fiji. The list of the panelists is as follows: ·
Country experiences -
Fiji:
Mr Philip Davies, Permanent Secretary, Health -
Tuvalu: Honourable Satini Tulaga Manuella,
Minister of Health -
Samoa: Honourable Tuitama
Dr Leao Talalelei Tuitama, Minister of Health -
Tonga: Dr Siale Akau’ola,
CEO, Ministry of Health -
French Polynesia: Dr
Mehrehau Cindy Mervin, Deputy Director of Health ·
Recent studies: -
Prof Soonman Kwon, Seoul
National University, WHO CC -
Mr Taniela Sunia Soakai,
Deputy Director, SPC
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