54th ECSA Health Minister’s Conference

 The Conference, will bring together Ministers of Health, Senior Officials from Ministries of Health, Experts, Health Researchers, Heads of Health Training Institutions from Member States of the ECSA Health Community, and Collaborating Partners with the aim of identifying policy issues and making recommendations to facilitate the implementation of high impact interventions for improved health outcomes.

The forum brings together the region’s leaders in health policy and programme implementation in the ministries of health and other related ministries as well as researchers and partners to share best practices and experiences in health care in the East, Central and Southern African region.

The objectives of the Forum are to:

1.      Provide a forum for participants to review approaches to improving the Quality, Efficiency and  Effectiveness of Health Services

2.      Review progress in scaling up best practices in health care in the region

3.      Share experiences on strengthening leadership and management in the health sector.

4.      Review progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals

The Forum will be organized in the form of a scientific conference with plenary and parallel sessions. There will be presentations of papers, especially on best practices based on abstracts submitted by researchers, health experts and programme implementers. There will also be poster exhibitions and display of relevant documents. On the last day of the Forum (8 November 2011) the recommendations from the presentations will be finalized and presented to the Directors’ Joint Consultative Committee (DJCC) for consideration, action and follow up.