3 Days – 40 Sessions – 250 Speakers (including Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences' Dean Professor Christina Mitchell)
From October 09-11, 2016, more than 1,500 experts from about 90 countries will be meeting up to develop novel solutions to the world’s most pressing health challenges.
This year’s central topics are:
• Migration and Refugee Health
• Technological Innovation for Health
• Women, Empowerment and Health
• Translational Research
• Infectious Diseases
• Sustainable Development Goals
Among the speakers (in alphabetical order):
• Hélène Boisjoly (Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada)
• Erwin Böttinger (CEO, Berlin Institute of Health, Germany)
• Christian Bréchot (President, Institut Pasteur, France)
• Emmanuelle Charpentier (Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany)
• Philippe Douste-Blazy (Chairman of the Executive Board, UNITAID, France)
• Hermann Gröhe (Federal Minister of Health, Germany)
• Wolfgang Ischinger (Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Germany)
• Hon. Suresh Kumar (Executive Vice President External Affairs, Sanofi, France)
• Christina Mitchell (Dean, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
• Marisol Touraine (Minister of Social Affairs and Health, France)
Registration for the World Health Summit will open in early May 2016. A special Early Bird Ticket will be available until July 31.
The World Health Summit (WHS) brings together stakeholders and decision makers from every field in the healthcare spectrum, providing the perfect forum for exchange with experts from academia, politics, industry, and civil society. The world’s foremost strategic forum for global health is organized by the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies.
Program overview and further information here.
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