Politico Live Healthcare Summit 2023 | POLITICO | 23 October 2023 | TBA, Brussels

The pandemic may have receded in Europe but the sense of a health care crisis lingers. Multiple meaty challenges are around: medicines shortages, workforce fatigue, strained budgets, drug affordability, supply chain issues, an ageing population — and that’s on top of looming health threats like antimicrobial resistance, rising infectious diseases and climate change. EU’s ambitious European Health Union embodies solutions to many of these issues and aims to establish a robust crisis response system for new threats on the horizon.

With the 2024 European elections looming, pivotal health files including the pharmaceutical legislation, European Health Data Space and Substances of Human Origin are racing to be wrapped up. As the curtain falls on a game-changing few years in European health policy making, it’s time for a stocktake of where we are now and how to tackle the next challenge: Europe’s health care permacrisis.

POLITICO will bring together a stellar line-up of speakers for a series of interviews and panel discussions moderated by our in-house journalists. The eighth edition of this Summit — which promises to be an intense and informative event — will be held on October 24-25 in Brussels and online. The summit comes at a critical moment for key policymakers, industry experts, medical professionals, patients’ representatives and more to shape the future of healthcare policy in the EU.

2023 Speakers

Mep Susana Solís Pérez
(Renew, Spain), Member of the Subcommittee on Public Health (Sant), European Parliament

Stefaan Van Der Spiegel
Team Leader for Substances of Human Origin, Dg Sante, European Commission

Sarada Das
Secretary General, Standing Committee of European Doctors

Darija Kuruc Poje
Vice-president, European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (Eahp)

Matthias Wismar
Programme Manager, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Who/europe

Christoph Glaetzer
Chief Global Value and Access Officer, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Marco Calaveri
Head of Anti-infectives and Vaccines, European Medicines Agency (Ema)

Moderator: Joanna Roberts
Health Care Editor, Politico

Paul De Raeve
Secretary General, European Federation of Nurses Associations (Efn)

Maria Jesus Lamas Diaz
Executive Director, Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps)

Mep Cyrus Engerer
(S&d, Malta), Member of the Envi Committee, European Parliament

Mep Kathleen Van Brempt
(S&d, Belgium), European Parliament

Frank Vandenbroucke
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister, Social Affairs and Public Health
Belgium

Pierre Delsaux
Director-general, Health Emergency, Preparedness and Response Authority (Hera)
European Commission

Jan Penfrat
Senior Policy Advisor, Edri

Joni Komulainen
Senior Advisor, Ministry of Health Finland

Gilles Vassal
Board Member, Siop Europe

Mep Sara Cerdas
(S&d, Portugal) Member of the Envi Committee and S&d Coordinator of Covi, Special Committee and Sant Subcommittee, European Parliament

Stella Kyriakides
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

Ilona Reischl
Assessor, Austrian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency, Ages Mea

Mep Kateřina Konečná
(Gue, the Czech Republic), Member of Covi Committee and Sant Subcommittee, European Parliament

Mep Tomislav Sokol
(Epp, Croatia), Coordinator and Member in the Envi Committee, European Parliament

Roland Driece
Director for International Affairs, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, the Netherlands

Monica Dias
Head of Supply and Availability of Medicines, European Medicines Agency (Ema)

Stefan Woxström
Vice-president for Europe and Canada, Astrazeneca

Ruud Dobber
Executive Vice President and President, Biopharmaceuticals Business Unit
Astrazeneca

Mep Stelios Kympouropoulos
(Epp, Greece) Member of Covi Special Committee, and Sant Subcommittee, European Parliament - Pending Final Confirmation

Peter O'leary
Executive Director, European Blood Alliance

2023 Partners

• AstraZeneca
• Efpia
• Emergent
• Pfizer
• Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association
• Janssen
• Johnson
• Novavax
• Intuitive