3 Days – 40 Sessions – 200 Speakers – 1,600 Participants – 80 Nations
Dear Dr. Berdzuli,
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the World Health Summit 2017.
At this key event, more than 1,600 Global Health protagonists, scientists, politicians and decision-makers from over 80 countries and every field in the healthcare spectrum gather to define and prepare for the challenges ahead.
Central topics this year will include Health Policy in the G7/G20, Vaccine Research and Development, Big Data for Health Governance, Global Health Security, and Healthy and Resilient Cities. We will also focus on Africa and the health aspects of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Held under the high patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the World Health Summit is the world’s foremost strategic forum for Public and Global Health.
We look forward to your attendance at:
- World Health Summit 2017, October 15-17, 2017 (Sunday-Tuesday), Kosmos, Karl-Marx-Allee 131a, 10243 Berlin, Germany
- WHS Ceremonial Opening and Reception, Sunday, October 15, 2017, 5:00pm, Plenary Hall Rudolf Virchow, Kosmos
- WHS Night, Monday, October 16, 2017, 6:30pm, Kosmos
To register, please go to www.registration-whs.com
Among the confirmed speakers are:
- Hermann Gröhe (Federal Minister of Health, Germany)
- Awa Marie Coll-Seck (Minister of Health, Senegal)
- Gerd Müller (Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany)
- Elizabeth Blackburn (Nobel Prize laureate (2009) / President, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
- Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti (WHO Regional Director for Africa, Botswana)
- Joanne Liu (International President, Doctors without Borders/MSF, Switzerland)
- Werner Baumann (CEO, Bayer AG, Germany)
- Wolfgang Ischinger (Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany)
- Peter Maurer (President, International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland)
- Carissa Etienne (Director, Pan American Health Organization, USA)
- Michel Sidibé (Executive Director, UNAIDS, Switzerland)
- Christoph Franz (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Roche, Switzerland)
- Ilona Kickbusch (Director, Global Health Program, Graduate Institute, Switzerland)
- Arnaud Bernaert (Head, Global Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum, Switzerland)
- Laurie Garrett (Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, USA)
- Axel Pries (Dean, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)
- Francesca Colombo (Head of Health Division, OECD, France)
- Katie Dain (Executive Director, NCD Alliance, UK)
- Susanna Krüger (CEO, Save the Children, Germany)
- Richard Hatchett (CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Norway)
- Ahmad Tarakji (President, Syrian American Medical Society, Syria)
We look forward to seeing you at the World Health Summit 2017!
With kind regards, |
