World Health Summit 2022

Making the Choice for Health

Patrons of the WHS 2022
Central Topics
WHS 2022 Program
Session Recordings

The World Health Summit is the unique international strategic platform for global health. It brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future by inspiring innovative solutions for better health and wellbeing for all.

Days

400+

Speakers

100+

Nations

6,000+

Participants

Impact of WHS 2022

Global Polio Eradication Initiative's (GPEI) Polio Pledging Moment

The polio pledging moment was held to secure funding for the GPEI's 2022-2026 Strategy to end polio. Global leaders confirmed USD 2.6 billion funding towards the goal.

Health: A Political Choice - Investing in Health for All

"Health: A Political Choice – Investing in Health for All" was launched. This official publication of the Global Governance Project produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) features several high-level contributions calling for sustainable and sufficient financing of health in all policies.

Germany and other Funders Pledge Support to Countering Antibiotic Resistance

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research announced an additional funding to support the work of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP).

UN Progress Report on Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health 2016-2030

The 2022 progress report on the UN Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030) called “Protect the Promise: Equal Access and Opportunity for Every Woman, Child and Adolescent” was presented.
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German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Announces Funding for CEPI

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) announced additional funding for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

Appointment of New World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassadors

Henrietta Lacks’ family was appointed World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassadors for Cervical Cancer Elimination. The appointment recognizes their efforts to champion cervical cancer prevention and to preserve the memory of Henrietta Lacks, who died from cervical cancer in 1951.

"I am grateful to the people of Germany for their strong support of polio eradication efforts. Now it’s up to all of us to get the job done."

Bill Gates

Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

"Covid, climate change, conflicts and the resulting cost-of-living crisis are impacting children on all levels with those most impacted by inequalities and discrimination hit hardest. We’re experiencing a global child-rights crisis."

Inger Ashing

CEO, Save the Children International, United Kingdom

"Taking global health to a new level means we need a new global agreement based on a common vision, a new global health architecture that is coherent and inclusive, and a new global approach that prioritizes promoting health and preventing disease, rather than only treating the sick."

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Coming together is important and we must strengthen global solidarity."

Winnie Byanyima

Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)

"It all starts and finishes with communities. If we do not have strong health systems underpinning everything, we will not be able to deal with tomorrow’s challenges."

Jeremy Farrar

Director, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom

"Forums such as the WHS are and remain indispensable. For they ensure that critical debate can take place which provides space for different perspectives and allows free academic exchange at the highest level, thereby laying the foundation for knowledge-based and rational policymaking."

Olaf Scholz

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Patrons of the WHS 2022

Emmanuel Macron

President of the French Republic

"We have no choice but learn from the current crisis and be better equipped for the next pandemic. This is our responsibility as leaders. In order to do better, we must understand better and rely on scientific work. That is what the WHS is all about!"

Olaf Scholz

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)

"The world must heed the lessons of this pandemic. One of the most important of those is the power of hope: that with science, solidarity and a commitment to equity, we can avoid unnecessary deaths and illness, and create stronger, more equitable and resilient health systems and societies that are able to deal with the crises of the future."

Macky Sall

President of Senegal and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) for 2022

"The summit comes at a time where public health issues are at the heart of the international agenda and while we are not yet done with the COVID-19 pandemic and other threats. As the theme invites us to do: it is about making the choice for health."