From May 20-28, the 72nd World Health Assembly will be held in Geneva, Switzerland. The annual event will bring together delegations from all World Health Organization Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the World Health Organization Executive Board. The events guide listed below is meant to serve as a resource to help navigate events before and during the World Health Assembly. This page is a living document and will be periodically updated. Events will be included at the UN Foundation’s discretion. Have questions or an event to add? Contact ghevents@unfoundation.org.
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8:30 -19:30: WHO, Civil Society, and “Non-State Actors”: How to Deal with a Difficult Relationship
9:00-10:45: G2H2 Annual Meeting
11:00-16:00: Civil Society Perspectives on Selected Global Health Topics: 72nd World Health Assembly and Beyond
16:15-17:45: Civil society perspectives on selected global health topics: From analysing and sharing to strategizing and cooperating
9:30 – 13:00: Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge
14:30 – 18:00: Introduction to World Health Assembly 72 – A Briefing for Delegates
16:00 – 18:30: Addressing Barriers to Scaling and Access for Health Innovations in LMICs
17:00-19:00: Mental Health for All Reception
17:30 – 19:30: Accelerating the Development of a Pathbreaking Universal Drug Regimen to End TB
17:30 – 19:30: Women, Children and Adolescents: Ensuring their needs are met through Universal Health Coverage
18:00 – 20:00: How to Halve HIV Deaths
18:30 – 21:00: Heroines of Health Reception and Dinner
07:30 – 09:00: Ebola: Response Readiness for Future Outbreaks
08:00 – 10:00: Putting Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions at the Heart of UHC
08:30 – 10:00: Innovative Solutions to Support Quality and Safety of Health Products
09:15 – 10:30: Global Health Security: Data for Epidemics
12:30 – 14:00: Technical Briefing: Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All: a commitment to accelerating together
12:30 – 14:00: Access to Medicines, Vaccines, and Health Products: A Multi-dimensional Approach for Ensuring Transparency of Markets, Affordable, and Quality Products to Achieve Universal Health Coverage
12:30 – 14:00: Primary Health Care towards Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals
12:30 – 14:00: Safe and Affordable Surgery
14:00 – 16:00: Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines
15:30 – 17:30: Community and Civil Society Engagement for the Global Action Plan on SDG 3
18:00 – 19:30: Universal Health Coverage to Deliver the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health: Rethinking Quality Midwifery Education
18:00 – 19:30: A Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030). Ideas and Propositions to Reach People and Build Healthy Societies
18:00 – 19:30: Experiences on Addressing NCDs Risk Factors and Determinants
18:00 – 20:00: Adolescents: The Missing Population in Universal Health Coverage
18:00 – 20:00: Rethinking Global Health: A Prerequisite for Achieving UHC
18:00 – 21:00: Financing Sustainable Community Health for All: The Importance of Women Leaders
18:00 – 21:00: Financing Sustainable Community Health for All: The Importance of Women Leaders
07:00–10:30: Globalization 4.0: Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare
07:30 – 09:00: Technical Briefing on Emerging Technologies
07:30 – 09:00: Childhood Obesity and the Global Syndemic – A New Narrative for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet
08:00–10:00: No UHC without Dx
08:30 – 11:20: Symposium on Innovative Financing for Global NCDs: Catalyzing and Generating Political Buy-in for NCDs Financing and Advocacy and Diving Deeper into the Implementation Realities
12:00 – 13:30: SRHR: An Essential Element to Achieving UHC and the SDGs
12:00 – 14:00: Precision Medicine: A Roadmap to Readiness
12:00 – 14:00: Every Breath Can Do Damage: The Urgency of Air Pollution Action
12:30 – 14:00: Technical Briefing: Universal Health Coverage
12:30 – 14:00: Patient Safety and Quality of Care in the Face of Emergencies and Extreme Adversity – A Prerequisite to Achieve Universal Health Coverage
12:30 – 14:00: Promoting Vaccine Confidence: Enhancing Global Immunization Efforts to Protect the Health of All Generations
12:30 – 14:00: High-level Launch of the Energy & Health Platform (HEPA)
12:30 – 14:30: Beyond the Headlines: What Will it Take to Address the Growing Cancer Burden?
13:00 – 14:30: High-Level briefing for Alignment on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health and Well-being in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings
15:30 -17:00: UHC Town Hall
15:30 – 17:30: Prevention in an Ageing World
18:00 – 18:50: Action and Accountability on UHC: Building Momentum towards the UN High-level Meeting
18:00 – 19:30: Getting there faster – How we can use R&D, Innovation and Access to accelerate progress on SDG3
18:00 – 19:30: Universal Health Coverage and Migration: Reaching the Most Vulnerable
18:00–19:30: Universal Health Coverage 2030: Creating a Global Digital Health Dynamic to Shape the 21st Century Economy and Society
18:00 – 19:30: Partnerships for Health Systems Strengthening – Prepared for Emergencies
18:00 – 19:30: Nutrition4Health: Nutrition Innovations along with NCDs Prevention for Achieving Universal Health Coverage within the Context of the 2030 Agenda and the UN Nutrition Decade
18:00 – 20:00: The Healthiest City: Science and Practice to Promote Urban Health
18:30 – 20:30: To Succeed by 2023 – Reaching Every Last Child for a Polio-free World The GPEI Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-2023
19:00 – 19:50: Palliative Care and Universal Health Coverage: a Component of Primary Health Care
07:30 – 09:00: Breakfast Side-Event: Ebola, Pandemics, and Biological Weapons
08:00–09:30: Harnessing Global Momentum in Mental Health: Public-Private Collaboration
08:00 – 10:00: How Communities Can Deliver UHC for Women and Adolescents
08:00 – 10:00: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in low- and middle-income countries: Time to deliver context-specific solutions
08:30 – 10:00: Building Country Capacity for Global Health Security
12:00 – 14:00: Leaving no one behind – leading with equity from the community to the hospital
12:30 – 14:15: Technical Briefing: Mental Health: time to scale up
12:30 – 14:30: Innovate + Collaborate + Scale = End Malaria
12:30 – 14:30: Is Democracy Good for Health? A Discussion on the Political Determinants of Health
14:00–15:30: Universal Health Coverage: UHC2030 Private-Sector Constituency Private Meeting
17:00 -18:00: Towards ICPD+25: Strengthening the partnership ecosystem to finance and deliver Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Kenya
18:00 – 20:00: Institutional Support for Social Accountability in Health: The Role of Government in Welcoming the Voice of the People
07:45 – 09:30: Leaving no one behind on the road to UHC: Where are women, children, and adolescents?
12:30 – 14:00: Technical Briefing: Investing in Jobs
12:30 – 14:00: The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity and the New Health Economy
15:00 – 16:30: Transforming primary healthcare in the digital age: the impact and sustainability of clinical decision support tools
17:00 – 19:00: Catalyzing Innovation and Progress through Self-Care Interventions: WHO Normative Guidance Development to Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
18:00 – 20:00: Every Newborn: Closing Gaps in Neonatal Care Around the World
18:30 – 20:00: Investing in Health Workers
9:00 – 11:00: The role of next generation in addressing Noncommunicable Diseases: Delivering effective collaboration and meaningful participation
8:30 – 11:00: Putting Quality Medicines & Diagnostics at the Heart of Quality Care
9:30 – 13:00: Accelerating global cooperation on dengue fever: proposals for a World Dengue Day
12:30 – 14:00: Let’s Get Real: Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Well-being
12:30 – 14:00: Technical Briefing: Green, Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Health Care Facilities
12:30 – 14:00: Technical Briefing: Promoting Local Production of Medicines and Other Health Technologies
14:30 – 16:00: Shrinking Space for SRHR and Civil Society: How Can NGOs Reclaim Their Space?
19:00-19:50: Cross-Sectoral Collaboration and Leadership in the Energy-Health Nexus
12:30 – 14:00: Technical Briefing: Towards Healthier Populations