This unique session focused on integrating behavioral insights to enhance equity in health systems and advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This session offered valuable insights on incorporating behavior change into financial protection efforts to address social and behavioral factors, thereby improving implementation effectiveness. Apply these insights to designing, delivering, and evaluating financial protection programs to support UHC progress.
Session Highlights:
- Discover how Social and Behavior Change (SBC) enhances financial protection programs through real-world implementation experiences.
- Learn to use SBC to identify and address the root causes of systemic challenges while considering contextual factors that affect implementation effectiveness.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an overview of how behavioral insights improve health systems.
- Receive recommendations for using SBC to enhance financial protection programs.
- Hear insights on applying behavioral approaches to programming.
Panelists
- Dr. Laurel Hatt brings over 15 years of professional experience in health economics and finance, health systems strengthening, and evaluation research. She is the technical director for the Accelerator at R4D.
- Kama Garrison is a public health professional with over 25 years of experience in public health programming. She is currently a Senior Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Advisor on the Resilience and Sustainability team in the Office of Health Systems. She focuses on the role SBC plays in strengthening health systems.
- Molly Lauria is a researcher with 15 years of applied expertise in health systems initiatives and implementation research and is a doctoral candidate in health policy and systems research.
- Dr. Matt Barnard is a consulting director at ICF and director of ICF’s Centre for Behaviour Change. He has 20 years of experience as a social researcher, behavioral scientist, and evaluator.
- Jana Smith is a Managing Director at ideas42, where she co-leads the Health portfolio globally and in the U.S. She has 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and scaling innovative
