German Chancellor Scholz, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros, Charité Virologist Drosten at World Health Summit 2022
Registration open for the first WHS together with WHO
Investment for Health and Well-Being, Climate Change and Planetary Health, Architecture for Pandemic Preparedness, Digital Transformation for Health, Food Systems and Health, Health Systems Resilience and Equity, and Global Health for Peace - these are the central topics at the World Health Summit 2022, the first World Health Summit organized together with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Registration for on-site participation is now open: https://www.conference.worldhealthsummit.org
World Health Summit 2022
October 16-18
Hotel Berlin Central District, Stauffenbergstraße 26, Berlin, Germany & Digital
WHS 2022 will bring together all relevant global health leaders and stakeholders from all sectors in all regions of the world and will focus on “Making the Choice for Health” by reflecting on the most pressing topics. With more than 400 speakers and 6,000 participants, WHS 2022 aims to set the course for a healthier future. One of the high patrons is German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who will give a speech at the WHS 2022 opening ceremony on October 16.
Speakers 2022 (among others):
• Olaf Scholz, Federal Chancellor, Germany
• 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
• Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of State to the President, Senegal
• Christos Christou, International President, Doctors Without Borders
• Heyo K. Kroemer, CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Christian Drosten, Director, Institute of Virology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Ayoade Alakija, Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, World Health Organization (WHO)
• Seth Berkley, CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
• Marco Lambertini, Director General, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International
• Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank
• Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Co-chair, Advisory Board of ‘Our Common Agenda’, United Nations
• Eckart von Hirschhausen, Physician and Comedian
• Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director-General for Emergency Health Intelligence, World Health Organization (WHO)
More on program and speakers: https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2022/program-speakers.html
With the WHS 2022, the World Health Summit and the World Health Organization are joining forces to foster global health and well-being of all. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) said: “Through our enhanced collaboration and the launch of the 2022 Summit, we aim to accelerate progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and make the world a safer place for all.” Axel R. Pries, World Health Summit President emphasized: “We must build our future on improved worldwide health: equitable health everywhere with a healthy planet as the basis. The joint World Health Summit 2022 together with WHO will be the forum to foster these goals.”
WHS 2022 is part of a long-term close collaboration, as WHO has been a strong strategic partner of the World Health Summit since its very beginning.
Press information: https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2022/media-center.html
Accreditation for on-site participation will open in summer.
World Health Summit 2022
October 16-18
Hotel Berlin Central District
Stauffenbergstraße 26
10785 Berlin, Germany & Digital
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