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Public Health: Health in Budget 2026 - Spending or Investment?

Azrul Mohd Khalib, CEO, Galen Centre for Health & Social Policy | Professor Dr Datuk Norma Mansor, Director, Social Wellbeing Research Centre, Universiti Malaya

14-Aug-25 16:00

Public Health: Health in Budget 2026 - Spending or Investment?

Budget 2026 will be tabled in October, and if the discourse around healthcare financing and medical costs are anything to go by, all eyes will be on the healthcare allocations. Amid calls to increase percentage of GDP for healthcare spending, we explore the economics of healthcare and ask: how much do we need to invest? Where should the money come from? And how does it save us increased expenditure in years to come?

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Produced by: Tee Shiao Eek

Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek


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Categories:  health policy

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