Annual Health Forum was established in 2005 in the Management Development & Planning Unit, Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition as a Project under the Sri Lanka Health Sector Development Project, funded by the World Bank This Secretariat presently functions under the Directorate of Dr. S.M. Samarage, Deputy Director General / Planning, Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition and Mr. Yasapala Nanayakkara, Project Director, Sri Lanka Health Sector Development Project. The key functions identified by the project are to conduct Annual Health Forum & Provincial Health Summits. In relation to these, several Steering Committee Meetings & Stakeholder Meetings have to be conducted as pre & post forum/summits activities for the continuation of dialogue with stakeholders. The Secretariat developed it’s website following the first Annual Health Forum held in February 2007 under the Health Ministry website. Publishing a Newsletter is one of the follow-up activities initiated by the Annual Health Forum Secretariat Annual Health Forum Secretariat Management Development & Planning Unit, Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition, Colombo-10, Sri Lanka.