The overall objective of the health cluster in Rakhine and Kachin is to reduce avoidable mortality, morbidity and disability among affected people through improving equitable access to preventive and curative health care. To this end, the health cluster focuses on five areas:
(1) provision of equitable access to preventative, primary and secondary health care and health promotion
(2) disease surveillance and rapid response to outbreaks;
(3) provision of routine immunization;
(4) provision of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services; and
(5) increased coordination and collaboration between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and partner agencies.

The health cluster works with 18 health partners in Rakhine and 11 partners in Kachin including UN agencies, ICRC and IFRC, local and international NGOs as well as with the nutrition and WASH clusters. The cluster facilitates the interactions with the government authorities at both the state and national levels and organizes regular meetings in Yangon, Sittwe, Myitkyina and Nay Pyi Taw to bring up issues requiring governments support or approval.