Conferences and symposiums Health Equity and Pandemics – a Moonshot for Sustainable Health

06-10-2021 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Add to iCal

Online (CEST) Online from Campus Solna, Sweden. https://ki-se.zoom.us/j/6223475 8753

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Are you interested in knowing more about what it will take to prevent pandemics and reach sustainable health for all, globally? What can we learn from the pandemic and climate experiences to propel humanity towards sustainable health for people as well as the planet?

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Karolinska Institutet (KI) proudly invite to the first annual joint Rosling seminar.

Wednesday Oct 6

11:00

Welcome

Prof. Ole Petter Ottersen, President Karolinska Institutet

What Hans Taught Me about Global Public Health – and beating COVID-19

Ms. Melinda French Gates

State of the SDG:s, Gapminder update

Mr. Ola Rosling, President Gapminder

Conversation

Overall theme: What can we learn from the pandemic and climate experiences to propel humanity towards sustainable health for people as well as planet?

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General WHO & Prof. Ole Petter Ottersen, led by Prof. Stefan Swartling Peterson.

Governing health innovation for the common good: a mission oriented approach

Prof. Mariana Mazzucato, University College London (UCL)

Break

Panel discussion

Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist WHO Mariana Mazzucato,Professor in the Economics of Innovation, Public Value at University College London (UCL) Rhoda Wanyenze – Professor and Dean of Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil

13:30

Conclusions and end of seminar

Prof. Ole Petter Ottersen, President Karolinska Institutet

The seminar is moderated by Prof. Stefan Swartling Peterson, Karolinska Institutet and will be held on Zoom:

The link to the seminar will be open from 10.50 am. Please join in time.

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No registration to the seminar is needed.

For questions, please contact us international-relations-office@ki.se . The seminar will be recorded and can later be seen on www.ki.se/who

Moonshot – used to refer to a plan or aim to do something that seems almost impossible, or relating to such plans or aims (def Cambridge Dictionary)

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