This dinner conference marks the start of the ESADE Alumni Public Management Club ''Major public reforms for a legislature'' series of talks addressing the major reforms pending in Spain. One such reform concerns the health system, a benchmark public service on account of its universal nature and great appreciation by the general public but whose sustainability is threatened by the aging population, and longer, more expensive treatments. Should Spain’s public health system be overhauled? Is this feasible in social, political and professional terms? What factors are the most urgent?
The speaker will be Rafael Bengoa, co-director of the Healthcare and Strategy Institute (SI-Health) and international advisor at Reformas Sanitarias.
Dr Rafael Bengoa
Former Director of Healthcare Systems, World Health Organization (for 15 years)
Former Minister of Healthcare and Consumer Affairs, Basque Country Government (2009-12).
Currently:
Co-director, together with Patricia Arratibel, Healthcare and Strategy Institute (SI-Health) based in Bilbao.
International advisor on healthcare policies and the social sector. Currently head of the Northern Ireland Healthcare Reform Committee (Systems, not Structures).
Senior Fellow, Harvard University (Boston, USA) and Manchester Business School (England).
Professor at McGill University (Canada). (Desautel Management School, Montreal).
In the European Union:
He is Vice President of Health, Demography and Wellness in Horizon 2020.
Dr Rafael Bengoa specialized in healthcare systems and community health at the University of London and has had a national and international career. He started leaving a professional mark in 1991 with several papers about social policy and health management addressed to the Spanish and Basque parliaments.
Bengoa also worked for the World Health Organization for 15 years where he was head of the Healthcare Systems Directorate until 2007.
In 2009, he was appointed minister of healthcare and consumer affairs in the Basque Country government where he was in charge of implementing a more sustainable and proactive healthcare model focused on the needs of chronic patients.
Currently co-director, together with Patricia Arratibel, of the Healthcare and Strategy Institute.
See you there!
For further information:
guillermo.angulo@esade.edu
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