Description

The Inclusive, Sustainable, Prosperous and Resilient Health Systems in Asia and Pacific or the INSPIRE Health Forum 2025 is the flagship event of the Health Practice Team, which will be held at ADB Headquarters from 7-11 July 2025.

INSPIRE will highlight how ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) are enhancing governance, health financing, health infrastructure and systems, human resources for health, pandemic preparedness and response, health regulations, and climate and health actions including addressing communicable and infectious diseases. It will showcase innovations for ensuring gender equality in health, managing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health concern, deploying digital health tools, and responding to aging and other health system issues.

INSPIRE is ADB’s flagship event to spark innovation and drive the transformation of health systems in Asia and the Pacific. The forum will present ADB’s solutions working groups approach in health systems strengthening and universal health coverage (UHC), climate and health, and pandemic preparedness and response. It will underscore the collaboration between ADB health team with education, social protection, agriculture, energy, transport, private sector and other ADB teams. It will emphasize partnerships and coalitions with development partners and the private sector.

Objectives

INSPIRE Health Forum 2025 aspires to have the following impacts in the region: (i) present best practices of DMCs in achieving UHC, pandemic response, addressing climate and health, and improving health outcomes; (ii) share lessons in designing and implementing health system reforms particularly in health infrastructure, human resources for health, health regulations, health financing and digital health; (iii) showcase ADB’s financing and technical support in health systems strengthening, UHC, pandemic response, and addressing climate and health in DMCs; (iv) enable increased development and deployment of innovative health initiatives and solutions; and (v) facilitate increased private sector participation in the health sector.

Target participants

Officials of ministries of health and finance, local governments, and national health insurance programs, health and non-health experts, policymakers, development practitioners, industry leaders and private health providers, health innovators, and other health stakeholders.

Resource speakers

Experts on climate and health, universal health coverage, pandemic response, and capacity building from governments, international development organizations, academe and research institutions, philanthropies, and the private sector.