Join us for the next Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC) seminar, bringing together researchers, policymakers and practitioners from Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda and Ethiopia with colleagues from the UK and Europe.
Strengthening Primary Care Across Health Systems: Integration, Equity and Sustainability
Lessons from four countries: Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda and Ethiopia
When: Thursday 29 October 2026, 13.00–16.10(registration from 12.30)
Where: Dalton Room, CTF Building, The University of Manchester (in person)
About this seminar:
Non-communicable diseases are rising fastest in the countries least equipped to absorb them, and interventions that work in one health system rarely transfer intact to another. This seminar shares what partners have learned about delivering chronic disease and mental health care in primary care.
The afternoon opens with lessons from programmes underway in the four countries. Two panels, each bringing together voices from across the partnership, then take up the questions that follow:
• What travels, and what does not? When an approach succeeds in one setting, what goes with it, and what has to be rebuilt?
• Measuring what matters. What does the evidence tell us about cost, equity and sustainability: who benefits, who gets missed, and what it takes for care to continue once external funding ends?
Programme:
12.30 Registration
13.00 Welcome and opening
Dean, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
13.10 Integrating chronic disease and mental health care: learning from four countries
Ethiopian Public Health Institute · Universitas Brawijaya · Nepal Development Society and Johns Hopkins University · Makerere University
14.10 Break
14.25 Panel: What travels, and what does not
Ministry of Health, Ethiopia · Provincial Logistic Health Management Center, Gandaki Province, Nepal · Nepal Development Society · University of Gothenburg · Imperial College London
15.05 Panel: Measuring what matters: cost, equity and sustainability
Addis Ababa University · Makerere University · University Medical Center Groningen · Norwegian Institute of Public Health · The University of Manchester
15.55 Closing remarks
Vice-Dean for Internationalisation, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
Chairs, panellists and speakers:
Dr Laura Anselmi, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Prof Penny Bee, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Prof Ashley Blom, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Prof Keith Brennan, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Mr Oli Kaba Eba, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
Mr Khim Bahadur Khadka, Director General, Provincial Logistic Health Management Center, Gandaki Province, Nepal
Dr Nushrat Khan, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Dr Awgichew Kifle, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Dr Sweta Koirala, Nepal Development Society, Nepal
Prof Angelina Kakooza Mwesige, Makerere University, Uganda
Dr Dinesh Neupane, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Prof Nawi Ng, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Prof Maria Panagioti, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Dr Eleni Papadopoulou, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Prof Sujarwoto, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
Dr Masresha Tessema, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia
Dr Raymond Tweheyo, Makerere University, Uganda
Dr Janine de Zeeuw, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
