World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2024 - Australia, Melbourne

The World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2024 hosted by Monash University focused on the future health of people across the Asia Pacific, exploring how science, innovation and policy can unite to address our region’s most critical health challenges.

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Publications

WHS Regional Meeting 2024 - A Look Back5 MB

Host

Monash University is a founding member of the WHS Academic Alliance (formerly known as M8 Alliance) and Australia’s largest University - with 86,000 students, 17,000 staff, and more than 440,000 alumni. Monash has six Australian campuses, international teaching locations in Malaysia, Indonesia, China, India, and Italy and more than 100 partner universities across the globe.
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Central Topics

Thriving Communities and Health:
Living well and living well together
Climate Change and Health:
Responding to the climate emergency
Geopolitics and Health:
Achieving equity within and across borders

Session recordings
Program details

Theme

The 2024 Regional Meeting focused on shaping the future of health across Asia and the Pacific. Over three days, leaders from diverse sectors, disciplines and cultures shared knowledge, catalyzed new partnerships, inspired new research opportunities, and explored policies that can deliver measurable and meaningful impacts on health outcomes. Participants were challenged to consider the questions: What would it take to achieve and sustain better health and wellbeing for people in the Asia-Pacific over the next 5-10 years? What are the strengths to build on? And what are the systems that need to change or evolve?
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