World Health Summit speakers are leading experts from science, politics, business, and civil society, including:
– Epsy Campbell Barr, Vice President of Costa Rica
– Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health, Germany
– Gerd Müller, Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
– Jane Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health, Uganda
– Diane Gashumba, Minister of Health, Rwanda
– Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Minister of Health, Ghana
– Luiz Henrique Mandetta, Minister of Health, Brazil
– Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
– Annette Dixon, Vice President for Human Development, World Bank
– Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust
– Eckart von Hirschhausen, Physician and Scientist for Future
– Heyo Kroemer, CEO, Charité
– Peter Sands, Executive Director, Global Fund
– Peter Albiez, Vorsitzender der Geschäftsleitung, Pfizer Deutschland
– Sabine Gabrysch, Professor for Climate Change and Health, Charité & PIK
– Randolph Nesse, Founding Director, Center for Evolution and Medicine, ASU
– Bernd Montag, CEO, Siemens Healthineers
– Pavan Sukhdev, President, WWF
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The impact of climate change on health will be an area of focus this year. Other topics in the 2019 program include: improving health systems in Africa and around the world, finding solutions to antibiotic resistance, digital health, and strategies for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Full program: https://www.conference.worldhealthsummit.org/Program/WHS2019
The World Health Summit is held under the patronage of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. Founded at Charité in 2009, the summit takes place annually in Berlin.
The World Health Summit is fully open to the press. Interview requests can be coordinated through the World Health Summit press office.
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World Health Summit
October 27-29, 2019
Kosmos, Karl-Marx-Allee 131a, Berlin
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Press Contact
Katherine Lindemann
Tel.: +49 30 450 572 114
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