World Health Summit
We Put Global Health on the World's Agenda
"The vital necessity for the global community to come together and unite in confronting our common global health challenges. Global health is a shared responsibility that can only be effectively addressed when we join forces and work together."
Karl Lauterbach
Federal Minister of Health, Germany
"The World Health Summit reflects the interdependence between human health and environmental health. There is growing awareness worldwide of this connection."
Steffi Lemke
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Germany
"Today and every day, WHO will keep working with countries and communities all over the world in pursuit of our founding vision, the highest possible standard of health for all people."
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
"The main purpose of the pandemic fund needs to be to bridge the equity gap so that the most vulnerable get access at the same time as everyone else in the world."
Jayasree K. Iyer
CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation
"We want to go far, fast, and together. That’s really the theme of this conference."
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems in the Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)
"Delivering the future to women comes at a crucial point in time. The ongoing crises are making it much harder to invest in women’s health because countries have constrained budgets and competing health priorities."
Svenja Schulze
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
"We feel hopeful because of the energy we see with young people, because of innovation, because of what people are doing and because of the power that rests in the communities. Even here, wherever we come from, we are a community and we hold power."
Githinji Gitahi
Global CEO, Amref Health Africa
"Prioritizing the needs of women and girls is as essential as any other type of medicine that is going to heal a troubled world. A world that needs peace and women to lead that."
Natalia Kanem
Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
"It’s all very well to sign up to targets - and another thing altogether to actually deliver on those targets. And that’s what we must now really focus on."
Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
"We need to make sure that the things we are doing for the community are led by the community and evaluated by the community."
Wilhelmina S. Jallah
Minister of Health, Liberia
"We should be asking questions relevant to the communities that are most affected. That means working with communities to understand the impacts of climate change on health and understand the relevant threats."
Alan Dangour
Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
"Young people cannot be ignored. We cannot be ignored. If you talk about education, gender, health, you cannot go forward without the youth’s voice in those spaces."
Christina Chilimba
Founder and Executive Director, All for Youth