World Health Summit 2024

"The WHO’s work benefits us all. What it needs for this work is sustainable financing that gives it the certainty to plan ahead and the flexibility to react."

Olaf Scholz
Federal Chancellor, Germany

"In a world grappling with distrust, polarization, science deniers, and an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, this year summit’s theme “Building Trust for a Healthier World” is apt, it’s relevant, it’s needed."

Natalia Kanem
Executive Director, UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund

"The best medicine is peace. We cannot talk about health alone. There is no health without peace and there is no peace without health."

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

"When girls are empowered to take control of their reproductive health, they are also empowered to pursue their education, build careers, and become the women they have the potential to be."

Gloria Charles
Youth Activist and Innovator, Tanzania

"Global challenges need global solutions. When we pool our resources—when we bring together expertise across sectors and geographies—we multiply the impact of those resources many times over."

Bill Gates
Chair, Gates Foundation

"People would not usually associate Africa with digital or advanced technologies. But let me say that the region that is fastest in terms of digitalization - is Africa."

Amani Abou-Zeid
Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union

"It’s a responsibility for all of us to invest in a globally robust, resilient health system. Because a climate resilient health system is a pandemic ready health system."

Githinji Gitahi
Group CEO, Amref Health Africa
 

"We need to integrate a mental health response as the initial response in times of crisis."

Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda
Minister of Health, Malawi

"Trust is also built in years and can be lost in an instant. You don’t build trust on a Tuesday when you want it. You build trust by providing good things for people, every Monday, every Tuesday, every Wednesday and not just in a crisis."

Jeremy Farrar
Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)

"The global north and the global south are linked. We have to build a better world for all, not just for one part of the population."

Ethel Maciel
Secretary of Health Surveillance and Environment, Brazil

"We believe we are on the brink of another transformation in the field of global health. One that will redefine what it means to live and thrive, and to build a future where health and climate justice are inseparable."

Naveen Rao
Senior Vice President, Health Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation
 

"To make a link between climate change and health is really important. The thing about climate itself is, it caused so many different issues beyond infectious outbreaks - air pollution, extreme weather events."

Victor J. Dzau
President, National Academy of Medicine (NAM), USA