Unilab launches hub for health policy issues

MANILA, Philippines — Unilab Foundation recently launched the Unilab Center for Health Policy (UCHP) to serve as a venue for stakeholders to examine health policy issues.

“UCHP is intended to provide a platform for policy makers, the private sector, implementors and other concerned stakeholders—at the national and local levels—to discuss, distill and dissect health policy issues,” Unilab Foundation president Clinton Campos Hess said in a statement.

Unilab pointed out that Filipinos are constantly confronted by issues such as out-of-pocket expenses, uneven distribution of human resources, and limited access (to health services). These are among the topics that the newly established UCHP aims to tackle.

“UCHP does not presume that it can help solve all the issues at hand. It is a modest attempt to bring together like-minded individuals and institutions desirous of nourishing our nation’s health care system. It is premised on government and the private sector working together,” Campos Hess said.

“UCHP seeks to spawn ideas anchored on research and grounded on experience. Such an approach will help forge the appropriate interventions to the exigent health concerns of access, equity, quality, service delivery, universal health care implementation, and the interphase of health with technology.”