The 2024 Skoll World Forum provides an opportunity to connect with global leaders and innovators and collaborate on social and environmental change. Even as the world’s problems accelerate faster than the solutions, there are exciting windows of opportunity to leverage our collective strength and advance progress.
“This year’s World Health Assembly represents a pivotal moment to advance policy reforms to deliver a more fit-for-purpose, equitable research and development (R&D) ecosystem,” stated the Global Health Technologies Coalition. To accelerate global health innovation and deliver health for all, they recommend WHO member states “take collective action now to establish more inclusive, globally distributed R&D systems and approaches.” Other Alliance members also attending WHA76 include Baraka Impact Finance, Cross-Border Impact Ventures, Gilead Sciences, Global Health Council, Google, Living Goods, Meta, PATH, Pathfinder International, Pfizer, PSI, ReSurge International, and Viamo.
Join Alliance member PATH on May 23, 8:30am – 10:30am CEST, along with Transform Health, Digital Connected Care Coalition (DCCC), Geneva Digital Health Hub, OECD, UHC2030, and YET4H for an in-person discussion during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva on prioritizing investment in digital health transformation to accelerate Universal Health Coverage (UHC) progress.
Join Alliance members Global Health Council, Living Goods, and Pathfinder International, along with the Frontline Health Workers Coalition on May 23, 5:00pm – 7:00pm CEST during WHA76 in Geneva, Switzerland for a working session focused on optimizing support to the health workforce. This session will convene ministerial staff, multilateral leaders, civil society organizations, and health workers to identify tangible policy changes needed to support the health workforce and the tools and financing mechanisms that would be most useful to countries.
Join Alliance Member ReSurge International on May 23, 6:00pm – 9:00pm CEST for a hybrid in-person and virtual event during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland discussing the urgent need for a global financing mechanism to enable and accelerate implementation of frontline impact for surgical care systems. The event will also serve as the official launch of the Global Surgery Foundation’s catalytic fund, designed to support frontline implementation activities for the scale up of surgical care system capacities.
Join Alliance member Pathfinder International, along with What to Expect Project and Last Mile Health during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland for a roundtable discussion focused on digital health as a tool for better health emergency preparedness. Experts in digital health will delve into how digital health solutions offer opportunities for improving the health of our most vulnerable populations and identify measures for ensuring equitable use of digital health technologies.
Join Alliance member PATH for an in-person event hosted by DEVEX in partnership with the International Society of Nephrology during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. During this event, speakers will shine a spotlight on what is needed to accelerate action and investment for kidney disease in low- and middle-income countries.
Join Alliance member PSI for an event hosted by the United for Self-Care Coalition during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. This session will bring together diverse stakeholders to discuss our most significant challenges to sustainable health systems and ways to advance progress towards Universal Health Coverage for all – with the successful integration of self-care approaches.
Join Alliance Member MSD for Mothers for an in-person and virtual event co-hosted with DEVEX and the Country Connector on Private Sector in Health during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This event will explore how more collaborative engagement with local private sector providers can advance equitable access to quality maternal health care for mothers in low- and middle-income countries.
Join Alliance member Global Health Council for a fun networking event during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This networking event will provide opportunities to meet fellow health advocates and decision-makers to make new connections and advance our collective work.
“This year’s World Health Assembly represents a pivotal moment to advance policy reforms to deliver a more fit-for-purpose, equitable research and development (R&D) ecosystem,” stated the Global Health Technologies Coalition. To accelerate global health innovation and deliver health for all, they recommend WHO member states “take collective action now to establish more inclusive, globally distributed R&D systems and approaches.”