Greeting by Chair: Theadora Swift Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity, Director General’s Office, WHO/HQ
Panel:
- WONCA perspectives on lessons learnt from use of rural mobile health clinics and community mobilization, including
in the context of COVID-19 – Mohammed Morad, Head of The Israeli Society for Rural Health & Frontier Medicine,
Israeli Association of Family Physicians - Increasing organizational and social innovations through the “Health Equity Champions” project in Mongolia to
decrease health inequities and barriers to services in rural areas – Enkhsaikhan Lkhagvasuren, Director, Division of - Infectious disease, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Mongolia, together with Byambaa Ganbat and
Monica Fong, WHO Country Office for Mongolia - Using Digital Health to reduce inequities in access and improve the quality-of-service capacity in rural areas – Derrick
Muneene, Unit Head, Capacity Building and Collaboration, Digital Health and Innovation Department, WHO/HQ - Innovations for equity-oriented eye care in rural and remote areas– Stuart Keel, Technical Officer, Sensory
Functions, Disability and Rehabilitation, WHO/HQ
Closing remarks: Bruce Chater, Chair, World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of
General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) Working Party on Rural Practice
