SELA and the Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) organized the "Seminar on universal health coverage as a mechanism to facilitate regional integration". Universal health coverage and access are pending issues within the regional agenda and a priority of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The main objective of this seminar was to identify the opportunities and challenges of universal health coverage and access as mechanisms to advance regional integration and strengthen the social dimension of integration through the exchange of best practices and the identification of South-South Cooperation (CSS) opportunities in the health sector.