World Health Summit: Achieving Health for All through Digital Collaboration

26 October 2020 09:00 – 10:30 CET

Title: Achieving Health for All through Digital Collaboration

Date: Oct. 26, 2020, CET: 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM / UTC: 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM

Digital technologies are revolutionizing healthcare and provide unprecedented opportunities to improve health and wellbeing worldwide, transform economies, and stimulate growth. For the first time in history, we have new tools to solve health system problems and create an equitable global health future.

If we are to realize the benefits of digital transformation in health care, it will take a global collaboration among Governments, Development Partners and Donors, the Private Sector, Civil Societies, Academics, and NGOs.

The purpose of this event is to engage the multi-stakeholder digital community to contribute to the prioritization, adoption and acceleration of digital health technologies and create a strong and sustainable partnership model for digital health as we encourage key stakeholders to invest in the global digital health ecosystem.

Please find the draft agenda here.

Hosts:

World Health Organization (WHO)

Speakers:

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, World Health Organisation

Dr Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation

 

Panel discussion: (Panel members tbc)

 

Prof Dame Sally Davies - UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, United Kingdom

Mr Bernardo Mariano Junior - Director, Digital Health & Innovations, WHO

Ms Aishath Samiya - Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Maldives

Dr Rajiv Shah - President, Rockefeller Foundation

Prof Miriam K. Were – Deputy Chair, The Champions for an AIDS-Free Generation in Africa 

Prof Alicia Ely Yamin - Senior Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and Senior Advisor on Human Rights at Partners in Health

 

Moderated by - Dr Amandeep Singh Gill, Project Director, International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR)