World Health Summit
The World Health Summit (sometimes: World Health Summit ) is an international conference that every October since 2009 in Berlin takes place. It has developed into one of the world's leading global health conferences. It took place for the first time on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Charité . 2,500 experts from around 100 countries from science, business, politics and civil society will discuss the most important questions of global health care and make recommendations. The academic backbone of the event is the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies. From the beginning, the World Health Summit has been under the patronage of the German Chancellor and the French President. Since 2013, the President of the European Commission has also assumed the annual patronage and since 2019 the Director General of the World Health Organization has also been the patron of the World Health Summit.
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The goal of the World Health Summit is to improve global health through open dialogue and collaboration. This should be done with academic independence and lead to science assuming more responsibility in this regard. For this purpose, international experts from science, politics, business and civil society come to Berlin every year. Together they work on solutions to the most pressing health challenges.
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The founding president of the World Health Summit is molecular and evolutionary medicine and pharmacologist Detlev Ganten . He is honorary chairman of the foundation board of the Charité Foundation, was chairman of the board of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin from 2004 to 2008 and from 1991 to 2004 founding director and board member of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch . The presidency is shared annually with a co-president from the M8 Alliance network.
International Co-President of the World Health Summit 2020 from October 25th to 27th in Berlin is Charles Ibingira from Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda.
Previous co-presidents were:
- Axel Kahn; Université Paris Descartes (France); 2009
- Stephen K. Smith; Imperial College London (Great Britain); 2010
- Steve Wesselingh; Monash University (Australia); 2011
- Michael Klag; Johns Hopkins University (USA); 2012
- John Eu Li Wong; National University of Singapore (Singapore); 2013
- José Otávio Costa Auler Jr .; University of São Paulo Medical School (Brazil); 2014
- Shunichi Fukuhara; Kyoto University (Japan); 2015
- Antoine Flahault; University of Geneva (Switzerland); 2016
- Hélène Boisjoly; University of Montreal (Canada); 2017
- Fernando Regateiro, Coimbra University Hospitals (Portugal); 2018
- João Gabriel Silva, Coimbra University (Portugal); 2018
- Ali Jafarian, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran); 2019
background
The motto of the first World Health Summit (October 14-19, 2009) was "The Evolution of Medicine" and was attended by around 700 participants.
From 10th to 13th In October 2010 the second World Health Summit took place under the title "Translation - Transition - Transformation".
In 2011 the motto of the third World Health Summit (October 23-26, 2011) was "Today's Science - Tomorrow's Agenda", reflecting the immense speed of scientific progress and the growing health challenges.
In the following year, the motto of the World Health Summit (October 20-24, 2012) was “Research for Health and Sustainable Development”, which highlighted the need for resilient and permanent solutions to global challenges such as climate change, noncommunicable diseases and health systems Creating the future.
The fifth World Health Summit (October 20-22, 2013) took place for the first time without an overarching motto. Instead, four central themes were introduced: "Research and Innovation"; "Education and Leadership"; "Evidence to Policy"; "Global Health for Development". The event also took place for the first time at the Foreign Office in Berlin. In addition to the 1200 participants on site, another 1200 followed the event live on the homepage worldwide.
The sixth World Health Summit (October 19-22, 2014) also took place at the Foreign Office in Berlin. Central topics were "Climate Change and Health", "Universal Health Coverage", "Physical Activity for Health & Healthy Aging", as well as the current Ebola epidemic this year. More than 1200 participants from over 90 countries attended the event, another 2000 from all over the world followed the event live on the website.
The seventh World Health Summit took place from October 11th to 13th, 2015 at the Foreign Office in Berlin. 260 international speakers were among the 1,500 participants. Central topics were the health care of refugees, antibiotic-resistant germs, big data, as well as the health consequences of climate change. For the first time, the WHS Startup Track was organized, where young companies could present themselves. MPharma from Ghana was chosen as the winner.
The eighth World Health Summit took place from October 9 to 11, 2016 at the Foreign Office in Berlin. 260 international speakers were among the more than 1,600 participants. Central topics were the health care of refugees, the role of big data and technological innovation in health care, the fight against infectious diseases and the consequences of Ebola and Zika, as well as the empowerment of women in global health care. The WHS Startup Track, won by iFeel Healthy from Israel, was organized again.
The ninth World Health Summit took place from October 15 to 17, 2017. The venue was the Kosmos in Berlin-Friedrichshain. 2,000 participants were there, there were 47 sessions, central topics were the health policy of the G7 / G20, digitization and big data as well as Africa and the sustainability goals of the United Nations. French President Emmanuel Macron took over the patronage of François Hollande.
The tenth World Health Summit from October 14 to 16, 2018 also took place in Kosmos on Karl-Marx-Allee. 2,400 participants from 100 nations heard lectures by 300 speakers, including a. Jens Spahn and Elizabeth Blackburn , on a wide range of global health topics. ISS Commander Alexander Gerst greeted those present in a video message during the opening ceremony.
From October 27 to 29, the World Health Summit 2019 took place in the cosmos with 2,500 participants and 300 speakers from 100 nations. The central themes this year were “Climate Change and Health”, “Transforming Human Capital: Investing in Health and Education”, “Universal Health Coverage: Expanding Rights and Access”, “Health is a Political Choice: The Future of Health Policy in the G7 / G20 and other Political Venues ”,“ SDG 3: The Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-Being for All ”,“ Focus Africa: Building Capacities and Strong Institutions ”and“ Digital Health: Shaping Society and the Modern Economy ".
The World Health Summit 2020 from October 25th to 27th will take place again in the Kosmos in Berlin, but due to the coronavirus pandemic on a smaller scale and digitally.
World Health Summit Regional Meetings
Planning meetings traditionally take place in April in the institution of the International President of the respective year. From these meetings separate World Health Summit Regional Meetings developed. The first took place from April 8-10, 2013 under the title “Health for Sustainable Development in Asia” in Singapore.
This was followed by the World Health Summit Regional Meeting - Latin America in São Paulo, Brazil (April 6-8, 2014). Central topics were "Healthy Life Expectancy", "Urban Health / Health in Megacities", "Increased Research Capacity to Incorporate Technologies", "Management of Health Systems to Ensure Universal Coverage" and "Health Education".
The third World Health Summit Regional Meeting took place from April 13-14, 2015 in Kyoto, Japan and dealt with three central topics: "Challenges in a Rapidly Aging Society"; "Preparedness for & Resilience after Disasters"; "Fostering New Leadership".
From April 19-21, 2016, the World Health Summit Geneva Meeting took place, which was a cooperation between the Geneva Health Forum and the World Health Summit. "Global Health: Sustainable and Affordable Innovation in Healthcare" was chosen as the motto.
The World Health SummitRegional Meeting North America, Montreal, took place in Canada from May 8 - 9, 2017. It was organized by the University of Montreal and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and dealt with four central topics: "New Frontiers in Medical Treatment", "Health and Healthcare Delivery for Specific Groups", "Environmental, Social and Cultural Determinants of Health" and " Medical Education for Optimal Healthcare ".
The World Health Summit Regional Meeting Portugal, Coimbra took place from April 19-20, 2018. Central topics: "Managing Infections Diseases in Developing Countries", "Global Policies for Health Coverage in Low-Income Countries", "Opportunities and Challenges in Translating Innovation to Healthcare" and "Biomedical Education to a Changing World".
From April 29th to 30th, 2019, the World Health Summit Regional Meeting took place on Kish Island, Iran, with the motto “United together for global health”. More than 700 participants from 47 different countries took part.
That for the 27.-28. April 2020 World Health Summit Regional Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The M8 Alliance
Behind the World Health Summit is the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies, a steadily growing association of 28 scientific institutions from 19 countries. The M8 Alliance was founded on the model of the political G8 under the leadership of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin on the occasion of the first World Health Summit in 2009 and initially had 10 members. The M8 Alliance has since formed the scientific foundation of the World Health Summit.
After the second World Health Summit in 2010, the University of São Paulo and the National University of Singapore joined the network. The University of Montreal and the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal followed in 2012. Makerere University from Uganda was accepted as the first African representative in 2013. The University of Geneva became the 17th member in 2014, followed in 2015 by the World Federation of Academic Institutions for Global Health (WFAIGH) and in autumn 2015 by the National Taiwan University, Coimbra Health (Portugal) and the Sapienza University of Rome. The Tehran University of Medical Sciences was accepted in 2016, followed by Istanbul University (Turkey) in 2017. In 2019, the Karolinska Institute (Sweden), the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA) and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) were added.
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Johns Hopkins University (Bloomberg School of Public Health), Baltimore, USA
- Kyoto University (Graduate School of Medicine), Japan
- Imperial College, London, UK
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Monash University based in Melbourne, Australia
- University of Montreal, Canada
- Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Canada
- Istanbul University, Turkey
- Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
- University of São Paulo, Brazil
- National University of Singapore (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine), Singapore
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
- Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
- Coimbra Health, Portugal
- National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)
- World Federation of Academic Institutions for Global Health (WFAIGH)
- Association of Academic Health Centers International (AAHCI)
- Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
- Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Russia
- Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
- Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release: "World Health Summit - last day: Tasks for politics". World Health Summit, October 17, 2017; accessed October 24, 2017 .
- ^ World Health Summit: Visions and Goals
- ↑ Press release 2010: Academic Medicine Must Take Responsibility for Global Health ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ World Health Summit: Leadership and Council ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ WHS 2009
- ^ WHS 2010
- ^ WHS 2011
- ^ WHS 2012
- ↑ WHS Report 2012
- ^ WHS 2014: Media Report
- ↑ WHS 2015: press release
- ↑ World Health Summit: Press Releases 2016. (No longer available online.) In: www.worldhealthsummit.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016 ; accessed on October 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Press release: World Health Summit - last day: Tasks for politics. World Health Summit, October 17, 2017; accessed October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release: French President Emmanuel Macron is patron of the World Health Summit. World Health Summit, October 9, 2017; accessed October 24, 2017 .
- ^ WHS Regional Meeting 2013
- ^ WHS Regional Meeting 2014
- ^ WHS Regional Meeting 2015
- ^ WHS Geneva Meeting 2016 ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ World Health Summit: Regional Meeting. In: www.worldhealthsummit.org. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Regional Meeting. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
- ^ M8 Alliance
- ↑ Members. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .