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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...
PD 12 - Addressing Non-Communicable Diseases...
The world has spent more than US$ 16.55 trillion on COVID-19 response – 15.9% of the global GDP. This amount can fund all targets and indicators under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 up to 2030....
WS 07 - Novel Vaccine Platforms for Emerging...
COVID-19 has not only reminded us of the devastating threat of pandemics. It has also documented the profound value of vaccines for effective intervention. It took less than 12 months to develop vaccines...
WS 06 - Global Health Governance Post-COVID-19
In September 2019, a team of leading multilateral organizations in health, development and humanitarian responses joined efforts to analyze, align, accelerate and account for more synergized international...
D 04 - National Responses to COVID-19
The pandemic of COVID-19 has not only affected all parts of the world but also impacted more people than any recent outbreak in such a short time. Nation states have responded differently to this threat...
PD 06 - Confronting AMR beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 currently overshadows the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance, but we can be sure antimicrobial resistance will resurface once the dust will settle and it likely will be more challenging...