The Book of Participants
As the World Health Summit attracts participants from more than 90 countries, it provides an ideal framework for networking. Following the successful introduction of the Book of Participants in 2011, this powerful networking tool is being implemented again in 2012.
Many fully registered participants have already supplied their CV, a picture and contact details – the ideal preparation for you to network at the Summit. Be one of the first in the know who will attend the World Health Summit and take the chance to organize a meeting.
The Book of Participants is accessible only to registered participants through our website www.worldhealthsummit.org (via the login area on the navigation bar’s right side) and updated on a regular basis. You can consult it onsite of the World Health Summit as well, using one of the two available Internet terminals.
To register, just follow the instructions during Full Registration and provide your data, which will be handled with the utmost discretion.
After the Summit, the Book of Participants will remain online for a limited time to best serve your wish to network and stay in contact with interesting and likeminded people.
Don’t miss this wonderful tool to increase your circle of friends, acquaintances and contacts!
Registration for the Book of Participants remains open until Friday, October 19th, 2012 - 09:00.
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World Health Summit 2012: 2nd Announcement available
"Arthur Schopenhauer captured a deeply felt human need when he wrote that 'health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing,'" Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, says in her Welcome Message.
Her personal message to the World Health Summit 2012 is one of many updates you will find in the 2nd Announcement.
Providing detailled information about the tracks, topics, satellite meetings, speakers, logistics and much more, the 2nd Announcement is available here >>>
Some of the various high profile speakers at the WHS 2012 (c) AIHRC, BMG, WHO, Singapore Government, WLF, Definiens AG, JHSPH
Confirmed Keynote and High Profile Speaker
Following in the footsteps of recent World Health Summits, we are again bringing acclaimed and interesting participants to the table for 2012. The list of high-profile participants, speakers and guests continues to grow as our program, with the motto “Research for Health and Sustainable Development”, continues to evolve.
We are pleased to announce the following Keynote and High Profile Speakers:
Josef Ackermann (Oct. 23rd)
Chairman Zurich Insurance
(further information / CV)
Peter Agre (Oct. 21st)
Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2003
(further information / CV)
Daniel Bahr (Oct. 21st)
Minister of Health, Germany
(further information / CV)
Gerd Binnig (Oct. 24th)
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1986
(further information / CV)
Eric Cornut (Oct. 22nd)
Head of Europe, Novartis
(further information / CV)
Gan Kim Yong (Oct. 23rd)
Minister of Health, Singapore
(further information / CV)
Laurie Garrett (Oct. 22nd)
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
(further information / CV)
Jean-François Girard (Oct. 22nd)
Dean, Paris Sorbonne Cité
(further information / CV)
Richard Horton (Oct. 22nd)
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
(further information / CV)
Zsuzsanna Jakab (Oct. 23rd)
Regional Director, WHO Regional Office Europe
(further information / CV)
Ilona Kickbusch (Oct. 23rd)
Director, Global Health Programme, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Chair, Global Health Europe, Switzerland
(further information / CV)
Michael Klag (Oct. 21st)
Co-President of the World Health Summit, Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
(further information / CV)
Judith Mackay (Oct. 22nd)
Senior Advisor, World Lung Foundation, Hong Kong
(further information / CV)
Sir Michael Marmot (Oct. 21st)
University College of London
(further information / CV)
Philip D. Murphy (Oct. 21st)
US Ambassador to Germany
(further information / CV)
Peter Piot (Oct. 22nd)
Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
(further information / CV)
Sima Samar (Oct. 21st)
Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
(further information / CV)
Severin Schwan (Oct. 22nd)
CEO, Roche Group, Switzerland
(further information / CV)
John G. N. Seakgosing (Oct. 23rd)
Minister of Health, Botswana
John E Ware (Oct. 24th)
Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School
(further information / CV)
Volker G. Wetekam (Oct. 24th)
President and CEO, GE Healthcare Germany
(further information / CV)
Further details regarding the constantly developing program can be found at “The Summit – Program 2012”. |
Major program update, July 2012
Twenty years after the original summit, the world will reconvene in Brazil for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Health and research are the basis for development, these issues however do not figure prominently in the agenda for Rio. The M8 Alliance recognizes that research for health must play an essential part in the development agenda.
The World Health Summit 2012 – under the theme “Research for Health and Sustainable Development” – will focus on issues and possible solutions for non-communicable diseases and conditions of global concern. The modern unhealthy lifestyle is a main cause of the new epidemics, like obesity, diabetes and mental illness. Sustainable solutions for healthcare systems to meet these challenges as well as a greater awareness of the global economic risks and human suffering related to the epidemiologic transition are urgently required.
The World Health Summit will approach these topics with five different tracks, present in each day's program structure >>> |
“Centre Paris-Berlin for Public Health” opens January 22nd, 2013
In March 2012, Prof. Jean-François Girard, President of PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, and Prof. Detlev Ganten, President of World Health Summit, announced a next step to improve Global Health: the founding of a “Centre Paris-Berlin for Public Health”. The French-German cooperation will focus on mutually addressing shared questions of public health, combining the high standards of knowledge at hand in Paris and Berlin.
On May 23rd and 24th, Prof. Annette Grüters-Kieslich, Dean of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Prof. Jean-François Girard, President of PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, further developed these plans and decided upon Jan. 22nd 2013 as the date for opening the new “Centre Paris-Berlin for Public Health”. The date was chosen to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which marked a new foundation for positive relations between France and Germany.
Prof. Detlev Ganten, President of World Health Summit, unequivocally welcomes the still intensifying cooperation between the two countries to improve the healthcare situation. “Public Health has tremendous problems to solve; yet France and Germany have outstanding medical and academic skills at their disposal. Bringing together experts from both countries to face mutual challenges is an important step in the right direction.”
Thus, the “Centre Paris-Berlin for Public Health” will intensify international cooperation in the spirit of the World Health Summit, which is held annually under the high patronage of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and François Hollande, President of the French Republic. It brings together stakeholders from academia, politics, the private sector, and civil society.
The 2012 Summit will be held from Oct. 21st – 24th. Registration opens Friday, June 14th. |
Disappointing Lack of Health and Research
(June 19th, 2012) 20 years after the “United Nations Conference on Environment and Development”, the United Nations will organize the “Conference on Sustainable Development” (Rio+20) from June 20th – 22nd. The slogan for 2012 will be “The Future We Want”. Although agreeing upon the necessity to gather and discuss, the health and research sector thoroughly denounce the lack of health as an important aspect on the agenda.
THE LANCET asks: “But is the future we want really one without health? […] Since a healthy environment is a prerequisite for healthy people and vice versa, the Rio+20 conference must not only re-examine, but also put at its centre, the link between health, the environment, and sustainable development.”
The World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasizes exactly this link of health and development, concentrated into a few striking bullet-points:
• Universal health coverage can support sustainable development: a healthier population contributes more effectively to economies and societies.
• Health in the green economy: some green economy measures, such transport networks for walking and cycling, can yield very large health "co-benefits", e.g. for physical activity. Other measures may pose risks for health that need to be managed. For instance, employees may face new risks, such as exposure to toxins used in emerging technologies.
• Health-based measures of sustainable development: Tracking and monitoring of health-based indicators/measures – such as the proportion of people exposed to high rates of urban air pollution, or workers' exposures to air pollutants/toxins – can help us evaluate progress towards sustainable development that brings optimal human welfare.
Furthermore, “The WHO report finds that many forms of asthma and allergies, as well as heart disease and strokes related to increasingly intense heat waves and cold spells, could be addressed by climate-friendlier housing measures,” as to be red on the official Rio+20 page.
High ranking politicians are joining the chorus of addressing the lack of integrating health into the Rio+20 agenda. For example in an open letter via THE GUARDIAN:
“As members of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health, we call on the negotiators at the Rio+20 conference to ensure that reproductive health and voluntary family planning have a central role in any comprehensive strategy for sustainable development. Rio+20 – known as the Earth Summit – promises to chart a course for global sustainable development that will lift people out of poverty, while preserving our environment for future generations. […]”
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil
• Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; president, Mary Robinson Foundation
• Climate Justice
• Joy Phumaphi, former Minister of Health, Botswana; former Vice-president of Human Development, World Bank
• Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway; former Director General, World Health Organization
• Dr. Fred Sai, former President, International Planned Parenthood Federation; former Director of Population, World Bank
• Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka, former Deputy President of South Africa
• Jenny Shipley, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Vice President, Club of Madrid
The World Health Summit hears and shares the questions of these friends, supporters and colleagues. Accordingly, we aim to bring together stakeholders, decision-makers, researchers, and many more to discuss the topics so bitterly ignored in the Rio+20 agenda.
You can support us and support global health by joining the discussion: Be at the World Health Summit, October 21st – 24th 2012, in Berlin, Germany.
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65th World Health Assembly Adopts 21 Resolutions and Three Decisions
For the 65th time, members of the 194 WHO Member States gathered in Geneva for the World Health Assembly. After six days of discussions, the nearly 3.,000 delegates adopted 21 resolutions and three decisions concerning some of the principal challenges and opportunities for public health.
The resolutions and decisions include:
- Early marriages and young pregnancies
- Humanitarian emergencies
- International Health Regulations
- Mass gatherings
- Millennium Development Goals
Furthermore, the World Health Assembly focused on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The delegates approved the “development of a global monitoring framework for the prevention and control of NCDs” and put emphasis on the “building of partnerships at national and global levels”, as well as the “need for a comprehensive, coordinated response to addressing mental disorders from health and social sectors at the country level”. (Details on resolutions and decisions can be found online at who.int)
As the World Health Organisation will continue to address these topics, so will the World Health Summit. From October 21st – 24th 2012, representatives of all health-related fields will discuss under the motto “Research for Health and Sustainable Development” various aspects of noncommunicable diseases – one of the big future challenges as Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, points out:
“As challenges, let me mention noncommunicable diseases and ageing, maternal and child health, under- and over- nutrition, the eradication of polio and health demands during humanitarian emergencies,” said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. “As opportunities, let me mention immunization, and the decade of vaccines, and the new multisectoral strategies made possible when we take a social determinants approach.”
Meet Michael J. Klag, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Protecting health, saving lives, millions at a time
Michael J. Klag, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) is the President of this year´s World Health Summit in Berlin, leading the M8 Alliance towards a sustainable future.
JHSPH is dedicated to the education of research scientists and public health professionals.
This is inseparably linked to the discovery and application of new knowledge, and particularly to the improvement of health and prevention of disease and disability around the world.
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Michael J. Klag, President of the World Health Summit 2012
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Take a Look at the Helmholtz Association - Partner of the World Health Summit
Researching the Foundations of Human Life
The Helmholtz Association, partner of the World Health Summit from its very beginning, is a community of 18 top-level scientific-technical and biological-medical research centers in Germany.
These centers pursue long-term research goals on behalf of the state and society. The Association strives to gain insights and knowledge in order to preserve and improve the foundations of human life. The Helmholtz Association works on the grand challenges faced by society, science and industry and perform first-class research in strategic programs in these core fields: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Aeronautics, Space and Transport. |
Jürgen Mlynek, President, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Günter Wess, CEO and President, Helmholtz Zentrum München
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Congratulations: Detlev Ganten is now “Officier de la Légion d'Honneur”
Celebrating the German-French “Jumelage”
On May 9th, 2012 the founding President of the World Health Summit, Professor Detlev Ganten received the rank of an Officer of the French National Legion of Honor. It is one of the highest honors of the French Republic.
The French Ambassador to Germany, Mr Gourdault-Montagne, highlighted his tremendous engagement in science and medicine and his passionate way of uniting French and German academic institutions.
One outstanding result of this was the foundation of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Medical Universities, which is now hosting the World Health Summit under the high patronage of the Chancellor of Germany and the President of the French Republic. |
Detlev Ganten, President of the World Health Summit 2012 and Maurice Goudault-Montagne, French Embassador to Germany
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Important event: World Health Assembly in Geneva
Margaret Chan Opens the 65th World Health Assembly in Geneva
During the sixty-fifth session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva (May 21st–26th, 2012) a number of public health issues are beeing discussed: Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, global burden of mental disorders, actions against counterfeit medical products or issues in reproductive and maternal health.
The discussions in Geneva have a good basis: We highlighted all these topics at the World Health Summit in Berlin (Read more).
Margaret Chan will stay director-general of the WHO: The Health Assembly appointed her for a second five-year-term. |
Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General
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Fruitful discussions and important decisions
The members of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities met in Baltimore, USA in early April.
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M8 Alliance welcomes the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Peter Piot as the director of one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, was very pleased to accept the membership in Baltimore during the M8 Alliance meeting. Read more >>
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Peter Piot - Director & Professor of Global Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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M8 Alliance – Scientific Symposium |
WHS Regional Meeting in Singapore 2013 |
Where do the new drugs come from?
During the M8 Alliance meeting we had a scientific symposium, co-organized by the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. Representatives from the health economy, pharmaceutical industry, other stakeholders from the private sector and the M8 Alliance discussed about issues like the changing ecosystem of drug. Read more >>
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Phil Phan - Professor and Interim Dean Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business
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Outlook to Asia
More than half of the world´s population lives in Asia. The challenges especially for healthcare and health-systems are obvious: Megacities, environmental hazards or fast growing and ageing societies.
The first Regional Meeting of the World Health Summit will accordingly be held in Singapore, April 9th/10th 2013 hosted by the Ministry of Health and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Read more >>
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John Wong - Vice Provost (Academic Medicine), National University of Singapore
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Nobel Prize Laureates confirm participation
Aaron Ciechanover Photo: D. Porges
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Aaron Ciechanover, biologist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2004, from the Center for Vascular and Cancer Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Autobiography >>
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Peter Agre
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Peter Agre, molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Autobiography >>
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Partnership with WHO Europe
We are very happy to announce that a close collaboration between WHO´s Regional Office for Europe and the World Health Summit has been agreed upon. Read more >>
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From left: Leen Meulenbergs (WHO/Europe), Detlev Ganten (World Health Summit), Zsuzsanna Jakab (WHO Europe) and Mazda Adli (World Health Summit). Photo: WHO/Sasa Delic
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New Voices in Global Health
Call for Abstracts - The Abstract Submission system is NOW OPEN! Click here to submit your abstract!
The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres, Medical Academies and Universities is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for presentation at its upcoming 4th World Health Summit. Read more >>
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