About the Conference

 

ORIGIN OF CONFERENCES

In response to requests from Caribbean governments to ‘do more’ in health’, Heads of Caribbean Social Security Organizations at their 17th General Meeting (Belize City, June 2006) agreed to establish a Caribbean forum for discussing approaches, challenges and lessons learnt in addressing  health financing matters.

As such, these Health Financing Conferences have been organized to share knowledge, test ideas, learn from those who have responsibility for planning or administering health financing initiatives.

Recognizing that knowledge in health/health financing do not reside with a particular professional group, the Conferences have actively expanded participation by involving experts/officials with first-hand experience from international organizations, Ministries of Health, health insurers, third party administrators and health services networks, research agencies and IT companies.

 

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

The eleven (11) previous Conferences were hosted by and held in:-

Year

Location

Hosts

2006

Turks & Caicos Is.

National Insurance Board (NIB)

2007

Aruba

General Health Insurance (AZV)

2008

Trinidad & Tobago

National Insurance Board (NIB) & Ministry of Health (MOH)

2009

St Maarten

Department of Public Health (DPH)

2010

Belize

Social Security Board (SSB)

2011

Bermuda

Bermuda Health Council (BHEC) & Health Insurance Department (HID)

2012

Curacao

Social Insurance Bank (SVB)

2013

Jamaica

National Health Fund (NHF)

2014

Trinidad &Tobago

HEU, Centre for Health Economics (HEU)

2015

Turks &Caicos Is

National Health Insurance Board (NHIB)

2016

Bonaire

Health Insurance Office (ZVK)

THE 11th CONFERENCE - BONAIRE

Click link below to download Debriefing Note (2016) for the 11th Conference which summarises the main presentations, issues and suggestions:-

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THE 10th CONFERENCE - TURKS & CAICOS Is

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THE 9th CONFERENCE - TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

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THE 12th CONFERENCE

This year’s Conference is hosted by the Anguilla Social Security Board (ASSB) as part of its thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations.

As in past Conferences with different themes, this year we will be continuing our focusing from the 11th Conference on ‘Health Financing—Strategic Management, Spending Wisely—2’ with particular attention to hospital, pharmaceutical. Catastrophic care and mental health challenges.

As can be seen from the Program/Agenda, we have a well-planned mix of:--

  • feature papers,  panel discussions and expert commentaries;
  • Caribbean and non-Caribbean speakers;
  • new and experienced presenters;
  • and, of course, the full benefits of open one-on-one sharing of insights, experiences and suggestions from participants during and outside Conference hours.    

Click the link below to dowload Invitation Letter for the 12th Conference:-

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