Dr Muhammad Ali Pate, Global Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank as well as Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents, reflects on the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the work that the global institution has been doing to promote the implementation of universal healthcare globally, the initiatives they are working on to address both the primary COVID-19 crisis as well as the secondary health crises emerging, particularly in developing countries; and the importance of cooperation and collaboration between all public and private stakeholders at this critical juncture in time.
Improving health financing resilience will be critical for achieving universal healthcare, particularly if countries are hit by second or third waves of COVID-19
