World Health Summit 2024: "Building Trust for a Healthier World"
WHS 2024 program with over 60 sessions is online, registration open
Berlin, July 4, 2024
Health in times of climate change, digitalization, artificial intelligence, trust in scienceand financing of global health are the focus of this year's World Health Summit inBerlin. From October 13 to 15, 2024, leading international representatives frompolitics, science, private sector, and civil society will discuss the most important issues
under the motto "Building Trust for a Healthier World". Over 350 speakers and 3,000
participants from all over the world are expected to attend.
The detailed program with more than 60 different sessions is now online:
www.conference.worldhealthsummit.org/Program/WHS2024
In addition to keynotes, panel discussions and workshops, the Global Health Lab series
is a new addition to the WHS 2024 program: These in-depth debates with stakeholders
from all sectors focus on the interactive participation of all attendees and an intensive
exchange.
Registration for WHS 2024 on-site participation is possible here:
www.conference.worldhealthsummit.org/
The entire program will also be available live online for free for people around theworld who may not be able to attend in person.
WHS 2024 speakers include:•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• Inger Ashing, CEO, Save the Children International• Christian Drosten, Director, Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin
Berlin• Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, Minister of Health, Malawi• Peter Piot, Handa Professor of Global Health, The London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine• Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)• Jean Kaseya, Director-General, Africa Centres for Disease Control andPrevention (Africa CDC)
• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President and Chief Executive Officer, The ONECampaign• Sania Nishtar, CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance• Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer, Google
More speakers

WHS 2024 central topics include:• From Pledges to Progress: Financing Global Health Solutions• Antimicrobial Resistance: Roadmap to Future Resilience• Empowering Futures: Strategies for Women's and Children's Health• The Climate-Health Nexus: Pathways to Action for Equity• Fostering Youth Leadership: Strengthening Voices for Impact• Artificial Intelligence: A New Era in Digital Health
Program details
Background
The World Health Summit is the international platform for global health. It brings
together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society fromaround the world to set the agenda for a healthier future and well-being for all. The
World Health Summit strengthens exchange, stimulates innovative solutions to healthchallenges, fosters global health as a key political issue, and promotes the global
health debate in the spirit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The World Health Summit as a conference and strategic forum takes place every year
in October in Berlin with around 3,000 participants on-site and more than 10,000
online and was founded in 2009 at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
The World Health Summit 2024 stands under the patronage of German Chancellor Olaf
Scholz and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The President of the World Health Summit is Prof. Axel R.
Pries, the International Presidents 2024 are Prof. Sophia Zoungas and Prof. Christina
Mitchell, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Accreditation for media representatives opens approximately six weeks before theWorld Health Summit. No registration is required for online participation. The entire
main program of the World Health Summit is open to the press.
Press information:www.worldhealthsummit.org/media.html
Information on WHS 2024:
www.worldhealthsummit.org/summit.html
World Health Summit 2024
October 13-15
JW Marriott Hotel Berlin
Stauffenbergstraße 26, 10785 Berlin & Digital
www.worldhealthsummit.org#WHS2024
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Press contact
Christina Keppeler
communications@worldhealthsummit.org