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As a secretariat for the MHSR Steering Committee (MHSR-SC), NHF have organized 2 MHSR-SC
meetings which were held on 17 August 2017 and 21 December 2017. MHSR-SC is a committee
composed of Ministers and senior officials from various agencies including the Ministry of Health and
chairs by the Minister of Health which provides an oversight for the MHSR study.

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MHSR Steering Committee Meeting on 21 December 2017

Source: National Health Financing (NHF), Planning Division, MoH

COLLABORATIVE PRACTITIONERS ACTIVITIES WITH THE JOINT LEARNING NETWORK
NHF section leads the Joint Learning Network (JLN) Country-Core Group (CCG) for Malaysia and
handles the local arrangement and coordination of JLN activities since 2010. The JLN CCG is chaired
by the Director of Planning Division with NHF as the secretariat. In the meantime, Steering Group
representative for Malaysia, who is our Senior Deputy Director of Planning Division, continues her
term as JLN Convenor.

The JLN is an innovative, country-driven network of practitioners and policymakers from around the
world who co-develop global knowledge products that help bridge the gap between theory and practice
to extend healthcare coverage to more than 3 billion people. JLN facilitates collaborative learning around
five (5) technical areas namely population coverage, primary health care (PHC), provider payment,
information technology, and quality of care.
In 2017, CCG Malaysia met three (3) times and during these meetings, knowledge sharing and updates
of recent activities by various officers were done. NHF officers too were involved in other international
JLN activities including:
i. JLN PHC seminar on Private Sector Engagement in Primary Health Care to Achieve Universal
Health Coverage (UHC) in Yogjakarta, Indonesia (27 February to 1 March 2017). The objective of
this activity is to provide knowledge on public-private partnership and the engagement challenges
experienced by the host country. Participants were from various countries namely Ghana, India,
Indonesia, Kenya, Mongolia and Morocco.

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