Webinar

Measuring What Matters: How to Monitor Effective Primary Health Care Provision

Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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Speakers
Frederico Guanais

Deputy Head of Health Division, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Dan Schwarz

Director of Primary Health Care, Ariadne Labs

Presider
Tom Frieden

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Global Health Program

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are working to improve access to and quality of primary health care. How do we measure and monitor the progress? Please join our speakers, Dan Schwarz, director of primary health care at Ariadne Labs, and Frederico Guanais, deputy head of the health division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, to discuss metrics and evaluation in primary care. 

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