The Network: Towards Unity For Health (TUFH) Presents: INTEGRATING MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH Social Accountability - Virtual Expert Symposium April 2, 2019 www.thenetworktufh.org Moderator: Jan De Maeseneer: Prof. em. Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University Panelist: Stephen Odiwuor: Kenya National Team President and SNO Member Vishnupriya Vijayalekshmi: President of SNO Panel Questions: 1. Traditionally health systems are concerned with individual needs. Can you think about a system, starting from population health goals and framing individual care in the context of population health? 2. In curative medicine, looking at life goals  of patients (goal-oriented care), curative interventions of providers are building the trust where Population Health interventions can capitalize on. It is easier to contribute to the cause of Population Health at community level than in hospital care. What could be done from a hospital’s perspective? 3. Community oriented primary care (COPC) consists in a strategy to blend public health approaches with primary care. Could it be that COPC is one of the most suitable strategies to integrate medicine and population health? Can you give examples? 4. Nowadays Population Health requires a global perspective, looking at needs of migrants, refugees, looking at the need for capacity building in the Global South and addressing the issues of climate change. How could the Network for Unity Towards Health bring those three approaches together?

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