Webinar: Improving rural health information systems for health equity

Greeting by Chair: Theadora Swift Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity, Director General’s Office, WHO/HQ

Welcome by the newly elected President of WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) Anna Stavdal

Panel:

• Using the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit to understand rural-urban inequalities
  Ahmadreza Hosseinpoor, Lead, Health Equity Monitoring, WHO/HQ
• Using ACCESSMOD to evaluate geographic and time barriers to health services, including examples around addressing snakebites -Karin Stenberg, Technical Officer, Economic Evaluation and Analysis, WHO and Prashant Hedao, GIS Centre for Health (DDI/DNA),
• Information systems and rural health equity: lessons from OECD countries
  Betty-Ann Bryce, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD
• Harnessing health information systems to strengthen health care in rural and remote areas
  Mercy WanjalaNafula, WONCA Rural Seeds Ambassador Africa Region

Closing remarks:

Bruce Chater, Chair, WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice

This Webinar is part of a WHO series on “tackling rural health inequits”, convened under the umbrella of World Health Day 2021 on “Health Equity”.  It is organized by the WHO/HQ Gender,Equity and Human Rights Team, with external partners including WONCA’s Working Party on Rural Practice, OECD, and other agencies in the UN Inequalities Task Team (ITT) subgroup on rural poverty. The series runs from July 2021 to March 2022 .