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PD 28 - Vaccine Policy for Health Equity
The accelerated development and deployment of novel vaccines against COVID-19 made it possible to offer vaccination against this pandemic for virtually everybody in high income countries one year after...
D 13 - Investing in Women and Resilient Health...
Sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health (SRMNAH) is an essential component of the Sustainable Development Goals. Improving SRMNAH requires increased commitment to, and investment...
D 12 - Health Inequalities & Youth: The COVID-19...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated pre-existing health inequalities across the world. The pandemic has pushed health systems to their core causing an unequal distribution of deaths...
PD 24 - Challenges for Children Today: Climate,...
Are we doing enough to ensure health and well-being for the world's children, the future of our global population? Clearly not, says an international Commission of child health experts, who, in February...
WS 17 - Epidemic Preparedness beyond COVID-19
Pandemics did not take much public attention in Europe and other industrialized nations during the last decades and before the COVID-19 outbreak. Also preparedness and response systems have not been adequately...
PD 21 - Planetary Health Determines Human Health
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and the COVID-19 pandemic share a common cause: the human disruption of our planet's natural systems. As a result of the destructive way we treat our environment, we...
PD 23 - Future Directions for Global Health Security
Global Health Security has come back into focus in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are discussions under way to explore new and broader concepts of health security: clearly the approach must...
WS 16 - Launch and Discussion of the Report of...
In this session the GPMB co-chairs will launch the 2021 Report of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, presenting its key findings and calls for action. In its 2019 report, "A World at Risk", the...
PD 20 - UHC: A Commitment to Essential Surgical,...
Although increasingly recognized as an indivisible, indispensable part of Universal Health Coverage, limited progress has been made in recent years to advance surgical, obstetric and anesthesia care around...
KEY 03 - Vaccine Equity
“No one is safe until all are safe” – a dominant political statement since the roll-out of the first COVID-19 vaccines. How far have we come in terms of global equal access for all to lifesaving COVID-19...