Welcome to National Health Equity Policy Lab 2026

Opening Plenary & Visionary Keynotes

Opening Keynote Address: The Macro Blueprint—Unveiling the "One Conversation, One Plan, One Budget" structural architecture under the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative.

Policy Lab Context Setter: Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako (Minister of State for Health)
Focus: Driving localized implementation frameworks and targets established during the 65th National Council on Health.

Fire-Side Policy Dialogue (The Legislative Engine)

Format: Structured Interview & One-on-One Cross-Examination—Moving directly from legal text to concrete budgetary action.

• Safeguarding the 15% Abuja Declaration fiscal benchmark.
• Allocating targeted capital loops to revitalize 17,000 primary health centers nationwide.
• Enacting adaptive legislative retention strategies to actively combat the healthcare "Japa" brain drain crisis.

High-Level Panel: Enforcing & Financing UHC 2030

Moderator / Civil Society Anchor: Dr. Adachi Ekeh (Director of Strategy and New Business, Nigeria Health Watch) — Keeping discussion tightly locked on public accountability parameters and evidence-driven data metrics.

• Panelist 1 (The Regulator) - Dr. Kelechi Ohiri (NHIA): Enforcing mandatory insurance policies and scaling coverage models to pull in 30 million informal-sector and vulnerable citizens.
• Panelist 2 (The Private Sector Hub) - Mrs. Njide Ndili (Healthcare Federation of Nigeria - HFN): Optimizing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), commercial medical supply chains, and constructing reliable delivery loops for emergency care.
• Panelist 3 (The Macroeconomist) - Dr. Tayo Aduloju (CEO, Nigerian Economic Summit Group - NESG): Accelerating local domestic resource mobilization, stabilizing long-term funding, and embedding health equity as a measurable driver of national GDP.

Operational Masterclass: Unlocking the Domestic Value Chain

Technical Session Lead: Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC).

A deep-dive case study tracking the practical execution of the recent Presidential Executive Order. Exploring the immediate structural layout adjustments from removing tariffs and VAT variables on active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to minimize out-of-pocket drug expenses for the average citizen.

Concluding Workshop: Health Equity SaaS & Regional Technology Approach

Interactive Demo & Wrap-up Panel: Moving safely from abstract system policy down to scalable electronic enforcement systems (featuring regional systems such as iDoctorAccess / Regional Health Tech Networks).

Demonstrating how resilient cloud computing architecture, virtual telemedicine consultation hubs, and decentralized laboratory information pipelines can feed clean metadata back to central policy labs—ensuring underserved rural populations remain continuously visible and operationally protected.