Sivutha is a social health protection specialist at the General Secretariat for the National Social Protection Council in Cambodia. In this role, his primary duty is to push forward the “Moving Toward UHC in Cambodia” reform agenda. With the goal of generating robust, insightful, and contextual policy options for social health protection, he conducts policy research and develops UHC-related policy documents and content to support the reform process.

He also liaises with stakeholders in the field both to harness their resources for UHC reform and to advocate for the reform agenda. Ensuring that poor and vulnerable populations can access sufficient, and affordable, quality health services without financial hardship is a complex process, he finds, and his work on helping to develop the UHC concept, drafting the UHC roadmap, advancing smaller work packages under the roadmap, conducting research activities to shed light on each package, stakeholder advocacy, and numerous other steps are integral to the success of the reform agenda.

Sivutha expects that the Equity Initiative will give him a better understanding of health equity frameworks, values, and actions, which will be valuable to him as he begins drafting a roadmap for achieving UHC in Cambodia.