The vision for a community of country practitioners working side-by-side to strengthen their health systems and make progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) had its humble roots at a World Health Assembly event in May 2009, when representatives from Ghana, India, Thailand, and Vietnam met to discuss their government-led health financing reform efforts. In February 2010, this vision became a reality as policymakers and implementers from six countries—Ghana, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam—came together in Manesar, India, to apply the joint learning approach.Since then, the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) has spearheaded its ethos of country-led and country-driven joint learning and mutual problem solving—bringing together policymakers and practitioners from 34 countries to systematically share their knowledge with each other.
