world health summit
PD 27 - Unlocking Digital and AI Technologies...
As we have seen with financial payments and credit, the digital transformation of the health sector can be key to including the poorest and the most vulnerable into inclusive, affordable national health...
WS 13 - Are Countries Ready for the Next Pandemic?
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed suboptimal levels of country response, resulting in huge impact on individuals, communities, societies and economies. The Economist Impact has completed a research project,...
PD 11 - Strengthening Universal Health Coverage
We are only a decade away from meeting the targets outlined in SDG 3 - in particular, Universal Health Coverage. At a global level, UHC index has improved from 45.8 in 1990 to 60.3 in 2019, but the achievement...
KEY 06 - WHO Council on the Economics of Health...
Global Health needs new economic thinking – a proactive Health for All economic agenda, to shape our economies so they truly have wellbeing and inclusion at the center of how we create value, measure...
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...
KEY 05 - The Role of the European Union in Global...
The initiatives to create a European Health Union entail an important political opportunity to strengthen the global health role of the EU. The EU’s internal legal and political capacity for health immediately...
WS 20 - G7: New Presidency - New Initiative?
In the declarations of the “G-formats”, member states have shown a tendency to come up with new initiatives tackling (among others) issues related to global health outside of the UN system, such as the...
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...
WS 19 - Pettenkofer Talks: How to Build a Career...
With Pettenkofer Talks, we would like to point out and make attractive possible career paths and professions to interdisciplinary young professionals in the field of Global Public Health through an interactive,...
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...