| Time | Topic |
| 07:30-08:00 | Registration (Lobby, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, USA) |
| 08:00-08:20 | Opening Speeches (Amphitheater) Dean George Q. Daley, Harvard Medical School H.E. Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, S.R. Viet Nam |
| 08:20-08:50 | Presentation (Amphitheater)20-Year Review of Viet Nam – Harvard Engagement Partnership Lisa Cosimi (Director, HAIVN, Assistant Professor of Medicine) |
| 08:50-09:20 | Ceremony to sign Memorandum of Understanding Renewal between Ministry of Health of Viet Nam, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Amphitheater) |
| 09:20-09:30 | Group Photo (Amphitheater) |
| 09:30-10:00 | Tea Break & Networking (Lobby) |
| 10:00-11:15 | Policy Panel (Amphitheater)Enabling Viet Nam to Realize Universal Health CoverageModerator: David Duong, MD, MPH Presentation: Context Setting and the Vision Forward for UHCHa Anh Duc (Chief of Cabinet, Ministry of Health) Policy Panel: Discussion to identify challenges, opportunities, and priority directions between policy makers, Vietnam context experts, Harvard experts, and Industry representatives.H.E. Nguyen Thi Lien Huong (Vice Minister of Health)Ha Anh Duc (Chief of Cabinet, Ministry of Health) Tran Diep Tuan (Chairman of Board, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Professor of Pediatrics)Nguyen Thi Kim Tien (Former Minister of Health, S.R. Viet Nam, Associate Professor)Margaret Kruk (Professor of Health Systems, Harvard)Kevin Croke (Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard)Marissa Courey (United States Agency for International Development)Dustin Haines (Vice President, Gilead Sciences) |
| 11:30-13:00 | Catered Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 | Session 1: Increasing Health System Resiliency through Pandemic Preparedness and Climate Change Mitigation (Amphitheater) This session will focus on strategies to increase health system resiliency through a discussion of two domains:Presentation 1: Review Viet Nam’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and draw lessons to prepare for the next health threat (Dr. Le Kien Ngai, Head of Infection Control & Prevention, Viet Nam Children’s Hospital)Presentation 2: Discuss the current state of how climate change is affecting health, and share adaptation and mitigation strategies to ensure health sector resiliency (Professor Nguyen Quoc Huy, President, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology)Discussion: Bobby Gottlieb (Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard & Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Caleb Dresser (Director of Healthcare Solutions, Harvard C-Change), Le Kien Ngai (Head of Infection Control & Prevention, Viet Nam Children’s Hospital), Nguyen Quoc Huy (President, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Tea Break |
| 14:30-15:30 | Session 2: Ensuring Person-Centered Care in Health System Design and Care Delivery (Amphitheater) This session will focus on exploring the concepts of person-centered care in a global and Vietnamese context, using HIV/AIDS response as an example. Key lessons and experiences will be shared from Viet Nam and other contexts, and strategies will be discussed to ensure person-centered care is integrated into health system design and care delivery in the attainment of universal health coverage.Presentation 1: Principles of Person-Centered Care (Ingrid Katz, Director for Behavioral Science for PEPFAR and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard)Presentation 2: Examples and vision for person-centered HIV care in Viet Nam (Do Thi Nhan, Chief of HIV Treatment, Ministry of Health) Presentation 3: Community perspectives on person-centered care from Viet Nam (Mr. Bao An, Director Center for Applied Research on Men and Community Health)Discussion: Cuc Tran (Acting Team Lead, Innovations in Service Delivery, HIV Care & Treatment Branch, Division of Global HIV & TB, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Ingrid Katz (Director for Behavioral Science for PEPFAR and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard)), Do Thi Nhan (Chief of HIV Treatment, Ministry of Health), Mr. Bao An (Center for Applied Research on Men and Community Health) |
| 15:30–15:45 | Closing (Amphitheater) Dean David Golan, Harvard Medical SchoolH.E. Vice Minister Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, Ministry of Health, S.R. Viet Nam |