N4A Webinar – Assessment to Action: A tool to understand the role of the private sector in health

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• August 27, 2014
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The Private Sector Assessment tool provides a “snap shot” of the private health sector and helps identify potential partnerships and projects with the private sector. Learn more during a webinar on Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 4 p.m. GMT (9 a.m. EDT)

Barbara O’Hanlon and Elizabeth Corley from the SHOPS project will lead a Network for Africa Webinar on the private sector assessment tool. This webinar will highlight lessons learned from 10 years of experience and 25 assessments the private sector and preview the Assessment to Action online tool to assess the private health sector. 

The webinar will include time for questions and discussions. Please bring your experiences with conducting private health sector assessment and how you integrated the assessment results into your respective programs to share with the group.

Barbara O’Hanlon is a recognized leader in international health policy design and implementation with over 28 years’ experience.  Ms. O’Hanlon is a pioneer in the areas of private sector policy reforms,  public-private dialogue, and health public-private partnerships. In the last twelve years, she has worked with several African Ministries of Health to conduct private health sector assessments, analyze key health markets for private sector opportunities, formulate Health PPP Policies, establish PPP Units, and implement health services PPPs. Ms. O’Hanlon also launched the Network for Africa (N4A), a virtual community of over 750 African policymakers and private sector leaders. She currently serves as the technical resource on several projects focused on the private health sector:  the SHOPS project, DFID’s Private Sector Innovation Program for Health (PSP4H) in Kenya,  USAID’s Private Health Support (PHS) Program in Uganda, the SADC 3PPP Network initiative on health PPPs, the World Bank Institute’s Market for Health program.

Elizabeth Corley director of communications for the SHOPS project, manages global dissemination for the project through its publications, website, and social media. She specializes in strategic communications, including public affairs, marketing, corporate communications (internal and external), and public relations. Ms. Corley has been a member of Network for Africa since 2010. Prior to joining Abt Associates, she was the director of communications for Development Gateway, a nonprofit founded by the World Bank that creates Web-based platforms to make aid more effective. Its flagship tools include dgmarket.com and aiddata.org. Previously, she was communications manager at Futures Group. She holds a master’s in international policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California.

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