MEDIA ADVISORY: Joint Virtual Seminar on Health Equity and Pandemics – a Moonshot for Sustainable Health, 6 October at 11.00 CEST

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No images? Click here Monday, 4 October 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY Joint Virtual Seminar on Health Equity and Pandemics – a Moonshot for Sustainable Health When: Wednesday, 6 October, 11.00 to 13.30 CEST Subject: World Health Organization (WHO) and the Karolinska Institutet will hold a joint virtual seminar on current and future action needed to redress health inequities, prevent pandemics and achieve sustainable health for all. The seminar is part of a deepened collaboration between WHO and Karolinska to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goal of #HealthForAll.  Read more about the collaboration. Opening remarks: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization Ole Petter Ottersen, President, Karolinska Institutet Keynote speakers: Melinda French Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ola Rosling, Gapminder Foundation  Mariana Mazzucato, University College London and Chair WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All Panel discussion: Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, United Kingdom Rhoda Wanyenze – Professor and Dean, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil The virtual seminar is open to anyone interested and media are welcome.  To connect:  https://ki-se.zoom.us/j/6223475 8753 Media contacts: mediainquiries@who.int   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team         Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Unsubscribe