In September 2024, the United Nations General Assembly will convene in New York to confront complex global challenges during its 79th session (UNGA 79). The high-level agenda of this year’s UNGA 79 includes the Summit of the Future, which will bring together world leaders and advocates to highlight the importance of multigenerational global cooperation in building a better world for our current and future generations, and for the second time, a High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), addressing the threats that AMR poses to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In parallel, Climate Week will bring together over 600 events and activities across NYC, with Nature, Food Systems and Health as a key theme.
The Bay Area Global Health Alliance will be in NYC, along with Alliance members, Accenture, Americares, Antara International, Chevron, Connective Impact, Cross-Border Impact Ventures, Friends of the Global Fight, Gilead Sciences, Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF), Global Health Corps, Google, HealthAI, IDEO.org, Living Goods, Merck for Mothers, Medicines360, Meta, Nexleaf, PATH, Pathfinder, Pfizer, Population Services International (PSI), RAIsonance Inc., Reach Digital Health, Resonance, ReSurge International, Roche, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Seed Global Health, Simprints, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Viamo, Watsi, WHO TTF, Zenysis, and others.
On the sidelines of UNGA 79 and Climate Week, the Alliance will be hosting a Networking Meet Up for Members on Wednesday, September 25 at 4-6:30 PM ET, near Madison Square Park. Register here. Space is limited and members in good standing will be prioritized.
The Alliance is compiling a dynamic list of events, as well as Alliance members who will be in attendance. If you are a member hosting or participating in an event, or you will be in NYC in September and would like to be added and have access to the list, please contact Alyana, alyana@bayareaglobalhealth.org.
Alliance Member Events
Sunday, September 22, 2024
- Living Goods: UNGA Welcome Reception: Strengthening Global Health | 4-5:30 PM ET
- Connective Impact: Member Meet Up | 5:30-7:30 PM ET | Connective Impact Members Only
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Americares / Johnson & Johnson: Heatwaves and Health: community-based health resilience in a warming world | 12-1 PM ET
- IDEO.org: A Gender Transformative Approach to Climate Resilience | 2-3:15 PM ET
- Friends of the Global Fight: Concordia | Driving Impact at scale in Health Systems via Catalytic Funding Partnerships Concordia Roundtable; Moderated by Mark Lagon | 3:30-4:30 PM ET | Register for Concordia
- Merck: Concordia | Practicalities of Partnership Building | 3:30-4:45 PM ET | West Stage | Register for Concordia
- Meta / UNESCO / Hugging Face: Open Source AI & Improving Global Language Access | 5:30-7 PM ET
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- Merck / Devex: The 2030 agenda: Sustainably accelerating maternal health outcomes | 8-10 AM ET
- Stanford / ECHAlliance / Society for Women’s Health Research: Women’s Unique Health Needs and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a call to action; includes Michele Barry as a speaker | 9 AM-12:30 PM ET
- Seed Global Health: Concordia | Partnering to Build a Health Workforce for the Future: A Fireside Chat with Melissa Brotz and Dr. Vanessa Kerry | 10-10:15 AM ET | East Stage | Register for Concordia
- Merck / Devex: Investing in health: Innovative financing models for advancing cancer care in LMICs | 10:30 AM-12 PM ET
- Pathfinder / Living Goods / Seed Global Health: Building health workforce resilience: Preparing for tomorrow’s climate and health crises | 12-2:30 PM ET
- Stanford / ECHAlliance / Society for Women’s Health Research: Women’s Health Luncheon and Roundtables; includes Michele Barry as a speaker | 12:30-2:30 PM ET | Invite-only, request in link
- MasterCard / Foreign Policy: Her Power @ UNGA79 | 4:30-6:30 PM ET
- Accenture / Bay Area Global Health Alliance with co-hosts NetHope, SID, UNA-NCA: Advancing the SDGs with GenAI | 5:30-7:30 PM ET | Invite-only
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Global Health Corps: UNGA People First Panel | 8-9:30 AM ET
- Pfizer: Concordia | 2024 Concordia Leadership Award: Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc. | 9:50-10:05 AM ET | East Stage | Register for Concordia
- Nexleaf / Cornell Tech: Building the Commons for Medical Equipment Data to Serve Health Systems | 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET | Invite-only, closed-door; A closed-door working meeting to engage tech nonprofits, academic leaders, technologists, multilateral organizations, countries, and foundations on existing work, emerging opportunities, and collaborative brainstorming for catalytic action. Contact Alyana@bayareaglobalhealth.org if you are interested in attending, and we will contact Nexleaf.
- Gilead Sciences / Devex: Turning the tide on HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The RADIAN initiative by Gilead and the Elton John AIDS Foundation | 12:10 PM ET
- UNICEF USA: Concordia | Climate Resilience in Polio Eradication: Integrating Environmental and Gender Strategies to End a Deadly Disease | 12:10-12:30 PM ET | West Stage | Register for Concordia
- Seed Global Health / Foreign Policy: FP Health Forum @ UNGA79 | 1-7:30 PM ET
- Bay Area Global Health Alliance: Member Meet Up | 4:00-6:30 PM ET | Members register here
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- WHO TTF / WHO Foundation: Digital Innovation in Global Health: Pathways for Private Sector Engagement | 9-10:30 AM ET | Invite-only
- Pathfinder / Living Goods / FHWC: Executive Roundtable: Managing the convergence of crises, preparing current and future health leaders to meet the pressing needs of climate, conflict and disease | 12-2 PM ET | Invite-only
- Global Health Council: Missing Link for Sustainable Futures: Gender-Responsive Climate Policies | 3-5 PM ET
Alliance Non-Member Events
- Climate Week | Sept 22-26
- Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) | Sept 23-24
- Concordia Annual Summit | Sept 23-25 | Sheraton Times Square New York
- DevEx | Sept 24-26
- Science Summit | Sept 10-27
Sunday, September 22, 2024
- Panorama Global: Leadership Forum: Navigating Complexities, Inspiring Action | 1-5 PM ET
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- Foreign Policy / The Novartis Foundation: AI for Health Cities | 12:30-2 PM ET
- PAN / the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response / RANA: Pandemics, Climate, Health, Conflict: Preventing Future Shocks | 8-9:45 AM ET
- ECHAlliance / Society for Women’s Health Research: Women’s Unique Health Needs and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a call to action | 9 AM-12:30 PM ET
- ECHAlliance: Leveraging AI for Global Healthcare Delivery | 3-4:30 PM ET
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Foreign Policy: FP Tech Forum @ UNGA79 | Sept 25 | 8:30-10:30 AM ET
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- Foreign Policy: FP Energy Forum @ UNGA79 | Sept 26 | 8:30-11:30 AM ET
- Foreign Policy: Food+ Forum | Sept 26 | 12:30-3:30 PM ET
- CISDI: Boosting SRMNCAHN Outcomes Through Local Cross-Sectoral Partnerships | Sept 26 | 12:15-2:30 PM ET
- Yale / New York Academy of Medicine: Health Systems Implementing Climate Action | 8 AM-5:30 PM ET
We hope to see you in September!