World Health Summit started in Berlin

2023-10-15 11:55:44

Experts from all over the world meet at the most important forum on global health

Berlin (ots) – The World Health Summit 2023, the world’s leading meeting for global health, began on Sunday morning in Berlin. The three-day conference will focus on climate change and health, pandemic prevention, digital technologies for global healthcare, the priorities of the G7/G20 in global health and 75 years of WHO. From October 15th to 17th, leading international representatives from politics, science, business and civil society will discuss the most important questions under the motto “A Defining Year for Global Health Action”. Well over 300 are expected Speakers from all over the world, including around 20 ministers.

In order to enable those interested who cannot travel to participate, the entire program is freely available live online.

The official opening event will take place in the evening at 6:00 p.m. On stage are, among others, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, Ayoade Alakija, a doctor from Nigeria and special representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), the youth ambassador of the President of the UN climate conference COP27, Omnia El Omrani, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who will be connected live, as well as Christina Chilimba, Founder of a youth organization in Malawi. The Prime Minister of Barbados, as well as the French and Japanese Health Ministers, among others, took part in video contributions.

More about Opening event

Livestream of the opening event: www.worldhealthsummit.org

Details on the possible use of images and sound can be found below.

WHS 2023 speakers include:

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, Germany
Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Steffi Lemke, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Germany
Inger Ashing, CEO, Save the Children International
Kevin Ali, CEO, Organon
Christian Drosten, Director, Institute of Virology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Omnia El Omrani, Youth Envoy to the President, 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27)
Sunao Manabe, Executive Chairperson and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo

More speakers and Program details

The entire World Health Summit 2023 is open to the press. Information for media representatives and an overview of special press-relevant events at WHS 2023 can be found in the Press Kit: www.worldhealthsummit.org/media/presskit.html

The live stream links for online participation can be found in the respective session program and during the WHS 2023 directlywww.worldhealthsummit.org. Image and sound can be used by arrangement. Source: World Health Summit

The recordings of all sessions are then available here: www.youtube.com/worldhealthsummit

The World Health Summit is the world’s leading international conference on global health. The WHS 2023 is once again under the patronage of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The goals of the WHS are to develop innovative solutions to improve global health, promote exchange, implement global health as a central political issue, and advance the global health debate in the spirit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). President of the World Health Summit is Prof. Dr. Axel R. Pries, International Annual President 2023 is Prof. Dr. Adnan Hyder, George Washington University, USA.

World Health Summit 2023
15.-17. October
JW Marriott Hotel Berlin
Stauffenbergstraße 26
10785 Berlin, Germany & Digital www.worldhealthsummit.org

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