The World Health Summit was organized by Charité hospital group, the M8 University Alliance and sponsored by France, Germany, the WHO and the European Commission. The Irish Global Health Network sent our two interns, Abigail Greenwood and Jane O’Flynn, along with Board Member Rosie James to report from the event.
 
With 2,500 attendees and 20 ministers of health, it was certainly memorable. The main themes of this year’s event were climate change & public health, Universal Health Coverage, G7/G20 health policy, digital health and education.Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO gave a hopeful speech about UHC and health security- how they are ‘two sides of the same coin’. 

 Abigail and Rosie also attended the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) 15th anniversary symposium on October 30th on behalf of Access to Medicines Ireland (AMI), one of our Friends of the Forum.
 
Stay tuned for more coverage of the event in the coming weeks, which will be posted on our Key Correspondent’s Blog.