Apr 14, 2016
02:00 - 03:00 PM
Main Ballroom, Willard Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington , DC 20004
United States
During the first annual Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum, this parallel session focuses on informing the forum participants about the GFF, its role in advancing the UHC financing agenda and highlight opportunities and challenges currently facing GFF coutries. The specific objectives of the session are:
Dr. Monique Vledder is passionate about innovations and smarter investments to improve women's, children’s and adolescents’ health. She led the process to develop the GFF Business Plan and has served as the Program Manager for the GFF Secretariat since the establishment of the GFF in September 2014. Previously, Dr. Vledder managed the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund, which to date has committed $436 million in grants, linked to $2.4 billion in financing from IDA, the World Bank’s fund for the poorest, for 36 results-focused programs in 30 countries. Dr. Vledder’s expertise in maternal and child health, health financing and health systems strengthening was built over twenty years of in country experience with a focus on southern Africa, East Asia and Latin America for the World Bank, the United Kingdom Department for International Development and World Vision International. She holds an MD from the University of Amsterdam, a MPH in International Health from Harvard University and a diploma in health economics from the University of York. Dr. Vledder is a proud mother of two.
