Lecture for the Masters students of the Queen Mary University of London
On 26 October, the Director of the WHO Centre for Health Development, Dr Sarah L. Barber, gave a guest lecture to Masters students studying Global Public Health at the Queen Mary University of London. She spoke about what Universal Health Care (UHC) is, why it’s so important as a human right and as an economic pillar for countries and families, and the work the WHO Kobe Center is doing to conduct research globally that advances UHC. In the lecture, she shared her research on the policy choices decision-makers face on how to deliver and fund services in a sustainable way, particularly under rapid population ageing. The students were engaged and were particularly interested in the new tool Dr Barber is developing with her colleagues, the Population Ageing Financial Sustainability (PASH) Simulator.
Many thanks to Dr Sinead Jones for the invitation.