Dear Tamuna,

As discussed I am sharing with you announcement for Barcelona Course on Health Financing, March 12-16,  2020

Other documents will be sent to you in coming days.

Best regards Rusiko

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Rusudan (Rusiko) Klimiashvili,

Public Health Officer,

WHO Country Office in Georgia,

Office location: 81 Vasil Barnov Street, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Mailing address: UN House, 9 Rapiel Eristavi Street,

0179, Tbilisi , Georgia,

Tel :              +995 32 2 99 80 73

Mobile:        +995 5 99 50 18 79

GPN:               74215

e-mail: klimiashvilir@who.int

NOTE: please update contact details to reflect my new e-mail: klimiashvilir@who.int

WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage

16-20 March 2020, Barcelona, Spain

The WHO Regional Office for Europe is pleased to announce the next annual WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage to be held from 16 to 20 March 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.  This week-long intensive course is offered by the Division of Health Systems and Public Health of the WHO Regional Office for Europe through the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening. We invite you and your colleagues to participate in this exclusive training event.

The course will review policy instruments to improve health systems performance through better health financing policy focusing on revenue collection, pooling, purchasing and benefit design. It will explore themes related to universal coverage and place emphasis on policy instruments to achieve efficiency gains.  The course will offer many examples and practical experiences from Europe. 

This course is exclusively for participants from the WHO European Region. Please find in the attached link a list of all the member states of the WHO Regional Office for Europe.:

Countries. 

The course is delivered in English.

Applicants are invited to submit a completed online application form available on the course website: 

click here

Please use Barcelona2020 as user name and password.

Please note that the deadline for receiving applications is the 16 of January 2020. To secure participation in the course, accepted participants will be charged a registration fee of EUR 100. The registration fee is payable upon acceptance of application. Once paid, this payment is non-refundable in case of cancellation. WHO will cover tuition, course materials, coffee breaks and lunches on all five days of the course, plus one dinner reception. Participants will be responsible for covering the costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence while in Barcelona.

Please find attached a brochure of the course with further details.

We appreciate your help to disseminate this information to other potentially interested colleagues.

Please check out our promotional video of the course: Video

For any queries, please contact: eubar@who.int

Kind regards,

Ruth Oberhauser

Programme Assistant

WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening

Division of Health Systems and Public Health

WHO Regional Office for Europe

Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, Nostra Senyora de la Mercè Pavilion

Sant Antoni María Claret 167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain

Tel.: +34 93 611 4092

www.euro.who.int/barcelona