Description
This webinar provides an overview of the functions of health financing - revenue generation, pooling and purchasing - and dives deeper on the practical
implications each function has for advocacy.
Click on the resources tab above to access additional reading on how to leverage pooling and purchasing for UHC.
Contributors
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Jens Wilkens
Jens Wilkens, health systems and financing analyst, provides technical advisory support with ThinkWell. He has over 20 years’ experience from staff positions and consultancy assignments with WHO, OECD, World Bank, the Swedish National Board for Health and Welfare, health NGOs and private companies. Key expertise includes policy analysis, reform design and implementation in the areas of health financing, care delivery structure, and health information systems. In addition to many years in civil service, he has experience from private sector development and innovation projects, in for- and non-for-profit environments. Since over 10 years, Jens regularly teaches in public health and health economics master programs at the Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University and Lund University in Sweden.