About the Conference

ORIGIN OF CONFERENCES

In response to requests from Caribbean governments to ‘do more’ in health’, Heads of Caribbean Social Security Organizations meeting in Belize City in 2005 sought to establish a Caribbean forum for discussing approaches, challenges and lessons learnt in addressing health financing matters.

As such, these Conferences have been organized to share knowledge, test ideas, learn from those who have responsibility for planning or administering health financing initiatives.

Recognizing that knowledge in health/health financing do not reside with a particular professional group, the Conferences have actively expanded participation by involving experts/officials with first-hand experience from international organizations, Ministries of Health, health insurers, third party administrators and health services networks, research agencies and IT companies.

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

The ten (10) previous Conferences were hosted by and held in:-

Year	Location	Hosts
2006	Turks & Caicos Is.	National Insurance Board (NIB)
2007	Aruba	General Health Insurance (AZV)
2008	Trinidad & Tobago	National Insurance Board (NIB) & Ministry of Health (MOH)
2009	St Maarten	Department of Public Health (DPH)
2010	Belize	Social Security Board (SSB)
2011	Bermuda	Bermuda Health Council (BHEC) & Health Insurance Department (HID)
2012	Curacao	Social Insurance Bank (SVB)
2013	Jamaica	National Health Fund (NHF)
2014	Trinidad &Tobago	HEU, Centre for Health Economics (HEU)
2015	Turks &Caicos Is	National Health Insurance Board (NHIB)

The Debriefing Note (2015) summarises the main presentations, issues and suggestions from the 10^th Conference in Turks and Caicos Islands.

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THE 11^TH CONFERENCE

This year’s Conference is hosted by the Health Insurance Office (ZVK) of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (BES Islands) as part of its fifth anniversary celebrations.

As in past Conferences with different themes, this year we will be focusing on ‘Health Financing—Spending Wisely and Value for Money Imperatives’. As can be seen from the Program/Agenda, we have a well-planned mix of :--

feature papers, panel discussions and expert commentaries;
Caribbean and non-Caribbean speakers;
new and experienced presenters;
and, of course, the full benefits of open sharing of insights, experiences and suggestions from all participants.

See invitation letter: 11th Caribbean Conference Invitation Letter

The CCNHFI Booklet: 11th CCNHFI Booklet