Organization
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin together with the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and National Academy Leopoldina, as well as the 60 most important National Academies, the WHO and the EU.
Participants
1.200. Click here to see participants profile.
Profile
The World Health Summit is the annual conference of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Medical Universities together with the National Academies. It is one of the world’s foremost gatherings of leaders from academia, politics, industry and civil society to develop joint strategies and take action to address key challenges in medical research, global health and health care delivery with the aim of shaping the political, academic and social agendas. After a highly successful inaugural conference in 2009, on the occasion of the 300th year anniversary of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the World Health Summit is now being held annually.
Vision
Health is a Human Right (UN Declaration 1948)
Health and personal wellbeing are our societies’ most important values. However, compared to the immense rate of progress in the medical sciences, we are lagging far behind in the global delivery of public health and health care. At present more than half of the world’s population is not receiving proper medical care. At the same time, demographic change in all parts of the world results in a rapidly rising burden of chronic diseases. We must clearly define our responsibilities and investments for the development of medicine to increase knowledge transfer from bench to bedside. We can make a difference. It is our responsibility to ensure today’s science become tomorrow’s agenda. Not only fine-tuned coordination of initiatives of academia with governments, the civil society and the private sector but also stable private-public partnerships, investments in health can accomplish our key objectives to improve health in our world.
Purpose
By initiating the World Health Summit as one of the foremost international gatherings of its kind in healthcare, the M8 Alliance envisages the establishment of a sustainable high-level forum. Research, education and clinical care need to develop answers to health challenges in an increasingly complex environment of globalization and international interdependency. Bringing together all stakeholders involved in health research and health care presents an unprecedented opportunity for constructive interactive partnerships. There is an urgent need for a cross-sectoral approach and multidisciplinary research to unleash the power and creativity of academic medicine and to involve societies, governments and industries. By close collaboration in analyzing today’s science and by extensively sharing international experience and debate, we will be able to structure tomorrow’s agenda.
Previous Meetings
World Health Summit 2011: October 23rd – 26th, 2011
World Health Summit 2010: October 10th – 13th, 2010
World Health Summit 2009: October 14th – 18th, 2009
