The Centre of Excellence for Universal Health Coverage, USAID-funded Health Finance and Governance project, and Abt Associates are working in partnership with the Health Economics Unit of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to leverage the latter’s planned communication strategy for building awareness on universal health coverage (UHC).
The objective of this project is to develop a critical mass of people at the policy and practitioners level in the public and non-state sector who can facilitate the UHC agenda forward in thecountry. As an initialstep of this project, a Core Expert Group meeting was organised on 5 April at the James P Grant School of Public Health. The core experts werefrom different organisations in the public and private sectors with an interest, involvement and engagement in UHC. They discussed and finalisedappropriate target audiences, key messages, and mode and pedagogy of different planned activities to be undertaken during the project period.