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One key to successful healthcare is competent, trained healthcare professionals – but how can this training model improve? A recent Lancet Citizens’ Commission webinar explored this issue, through keynote lectures and a panel discussion.

The keynote lectures, given by Professor Dame Anne M. Johnson, President, Academy of Medical Sciences, UK and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public, University College London and Professor Wanicha Chuenkongkaew, President, Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand and Professor of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, focused on how the UK and Thai approaches create a health system that trains doctors and researchers to identify problems and develop solutions for known and emerging health issues.

Following the keynote, a panel discussion explored how medical and nursing education in India can be reimagined to create a learning health system, including issues of competency development, research, and structural elements of training. The panelists included Professor Dame Anne Johnson, President, Academy of Medical Sciences, UK, Professor Wanicha Chuenkongkaew, President, Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand, Dr. Leila C. Varkey, Senior Advisor Reproductive Health, Centre for Catalyzing Change, and Dr. Bhabatosh Biswas, Former Vice Chancellor, West Bengal University of Health Sciences, Kolkata, with moderator Dr. Devi P. Shetty, Chairperson and Executive Director, Narayana Healthcare, Bengaluru. They shared how comparative practices in India, UK, and Thailand have grown or changed, and explored how a health workforce can be created that responds to the needs of the system. Please view the video above to watch the full talk. 

Keynote Lectures

  • Professor Dame Anne M. Johnson, President, Academy of Medical Sciences, UK and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public, University College London
  • Professor Wanicha Chuenkongkaew, President, Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand and Professor of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok

Panelists

  • Professor Dame Anne Johnson, President, Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
  • Professor Wanicha Chuenkongkaew, President, Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand
  • Dr. Leila C. Varkey, Senior Advisor Reproductive Health, Centre for Catalyzing Change
  • Dr. Bhabatosh Biswas, Former Vice Chancellor, West Bengal University of Health Sciences, Kolkata

Moderator 

  • Dr. Devi P. Shetty, Chairperson and Executive Director, Narayana Healthcare, Bengaluru

The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is an ambitious, cross-sectoral endeavor that aims to lay out a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India. Our new webinar series is intended to serve as a platform for public health discourse in India, and a means for academics, practitioners and the public to engage on substantive and timely issues regarding universal health coverage in India.

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