World Health Summit 2024 | World Health Summit | 12 October 2024 | Online

The summit is the unique international strategic forum for global health. Held annually in Berlin, it brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future by inspiring innovative solutions for better health and well-being for all.

2024 Speakers

Olaf Scholz
Federal Chancellor, Germany

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Bill Gates
Chair, Gates Foundation, United States of America

Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar
Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health and Population, Egypt

Palitha Abeykoon
Board Member, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)

Amani Abou-Zeid
Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union

Muna Abu Sin
Ambassador on Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), Germany

Cary Adams
CEO, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Switzerland

Pascale Allotey
Director, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research SRH, World Health Organization (WHO)

Carlos Alvarado Quesada
Commissioner, Climate Overshoot Commission and Former President of Costa Rica

Anne-Claire Amprou
Ambassador for Global Health, French Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs, France

David Atchoarena
Executive Director, WHO Academy

Joëlle Barral
Senior Director of Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind, France

José Manuel Barroso
Chair of the Board, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Switzerland

Hellen Anurika Beyioku-Alase
Executive Director, Deaf Women Aloud Initiative, Nigeria

Catharina Boehme
Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Governance, World Health Organization (WHO)

Thomas Breuer
Chief Global Health Officer, GSK, United Kingdom

Meeyoung Cha
Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Germany

Gloria Charles
Youth Activist and Innovator, Tanzania

Ru-fong Joanne Cheng
Director, Women’s Health Innovations, Gates Foundation, United States of America

Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda
Minister of Health, Malawi

Shirmai Chung
Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission

Helen Clark
Chair of the Board, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Switzerland

Mandy Cohen
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States of America

Awa Marie Coll-Seck
President, Forum Galien Africa, Senegal

Patrick Cramer
President, Max-Planck-Society, Germany

Alan Dangour
Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom

Dame Sally Davies
UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), United Kingdom

Karen DeSalvo
Chief Health Officer, Google, United States of America

Christian Drosten
Director, Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Beth Dunford
Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, African Development Bank Group

Victor J. Dzau
President, National Academy of Medicine (NAM), United States of America

Christopher Elias
Member, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB); President, Global Development, Gates Foundation, United States of America

Obiageli Ezekwesili
CEO, Human Capital Africa, Nigeria

Jeremy Farrar
Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)

Atul Gawande
Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States of America

Haben Girma
Disability Rights Advocate & First Deafblind Graduate of Harvard Law School

Githinji Gitahi
Global CEO, Amref Health Africa, Kenya

Marelize Gorgens
Lead for Digital Health, The World Bank, United States of America

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Co-Chair, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB); Former President of Croatia

Garth Graham
Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, YouTube/Google, United States of America

Jane Halton
Chair of the Board, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Norway

Ahmad Helmi
Human Rights Advocate & Co-Founder, Ta’afi Initiative, Syria

Zeinab Hijazi
Global Mental Health Lead, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet, United Kingdom

Chikwe Ihekweazu
Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Rowland Illing
Chief Medical Officer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jayasree K. Iyer
CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation

Dean Jamison
Co-Chair, Lancet Commission on Investing in Health; Professor Emeritus, Global Health, University of Washington

Beate Kampmann
Director, Charité Center for Global Health (CCGH)

Natalia Kanem
Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Jean Kaseya
Director-General, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)

Afshan Khan
Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations; Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition Movement

Rajat Khosla
Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

Ilona Kickbusch
Founding Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Hans Kluge
Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO)

Heyo Kroemer
CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Thelma Krug
Former Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Hatice Küçük Beton
Executive Director, The G20 & G7 Health and Development Partnership

Alain Labrique
Director, Department of Digital Health and Innovation, World Health Organization (WHO)

Heidi J. Larson
Chair, The Vaccine Confidence Project; The Global Listening Project

Vanina Laurent-Ledru
Director General, Sanofi Foundation

Karl Lauterbach
Federal Minister of Health, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)

Ramanan Laxminarayan
Founder and President, One Health Trust

Gabriel Leung
Executive Director, Hong Kong Jockey Club

Sir Mark Lowcock
Board Member, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)

Shingai Machingaidze
Co-Chair, International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS)

Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel
Secretary of Health Surveillance and Environment, Ministry of Health

Wahid Majrooh
Founder and Executive Director, Afghanistan Center for Health and Peace Studies; Former Minister of Public Health, Afghanistan

Michael Makanga
Executive Director, Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking

Susana Malcorra
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Worship of Argentina; President, GWL Voices

Sunao Manabe
Executive Chairperson and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo

Jenista Mhagama
Minister of Health, Tanzania

Jeni Miller
Executive Director, The Global Climate and Health Alliance

Bernd Montag
CEO, Siemens Healthineers AG

Suerie Moon
Co-Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Tjedu Moyo
Youth Representative, Global Financing Facility Investors Group

Heizal Nagginda
Founder, Climate Operation

María Neira
Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)

Kee Yuan Ngiam
Group Chief Technology Officer, National University Health System (NUHS)

Olivia Ngou
Executive Director, Impact Santé Afrique

Sania Nishtar
CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
President and CEO, The ONE Campaign

Thomas Östros
Vice-President, European Investment Bank (EIB)

Deepali Patel
Director of International Policy, AMR Action Fund

Priti Patnaik
Founding Editor, Geneva Health Files

Joy Phumaphi
Co-Chair, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB); Former Minister of Health of Botswana

Peter Piot
Handa Professor of Global Health, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

John Quinn
Chief Information Officer, National Health Service (NHS) England

Naveen Rao
Senior Vice President, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation

David Reddy
Director-General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)

Pamela Rendi-Wagner
Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Magda Robalo
Co-Chair, UHC2030 Steering Committee

Mike Ryan
Deputy Director General, World Health Organization (WHO); Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme

John-Arne Røttingen
CEO, Wellcome Trust

Antoine Saint-Denis
Director for European and International Affairs, Ministry of Health and Solidarity

Jérôme Salomon
Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)

Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao
Chief Resource Mobilisation & Growth Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Svenja Schulze
Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Rhonda Sealey-Thomas
Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Michael Sen
CEO, Fresenius

Olive Shisana
Special Advisor on Social Policy to the President

Liam Smeeth
Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Christine Stegling
Deputy Executive Director, Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch, UNAIDS

Elhadj As Sy
Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation

Lia Tadesse
Former Minister of Health of Ethiopia; Executive Director, Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program

Andrew Ullmann
Member of Parliament; Chair, Subcommittee on Global Health

Justin Vaïsse
Founder and Director-General, Paris Peace Forum

Maria Van Kerkhove
Director, Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO)

Monique Wasunna
Africa Ambassador, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

Saima Wazed
Regional Director for South-East Asia, World Health Organization (WHO)

Lothar H. Wieler
Chair, Digital Global Public Health, Hasso Plattner Institute

Durhane Wong-Rieger
President and CEO, Canadian Organization for Rare Disorder (CORD)

Gavin Yamey
Director & Hymowitz Professor of Global Health, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke University

Jennifer Young
Vice President, Global Policy & Public Affairs – Specialty Care, Pfizer

Marzia Zambon
Executive Director, Europa Donna

2024 Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Charite
• Abbott
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Federal Ministry of Health
• CEPI
• European Comission
• Johnson & Johnson
• Pfizer
• Siemens Healthineers
• UNFPA
• Youtube Health

MAJOR PARTNERS:
• Bayer
• Daiichi-Sankyo
• Federal Ministry of Health
• IFPMA
• MSD
• Organon
• Sanofi
• Helmsley
• Trusted Health Ecosystems
• Unicef

GENERAL PARTNERS:
• Berlin
• Berlin Institute of Health
• Else Kroner Fresenius Stiftung
• Eni
• Gilead
• Leibniz Association
• Bosch Health Campus
• Roche
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• VFA
• Wellcome
• Wildlife Conservation Society

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• Berlin Partner
• Boehringer Ingelheim
• Econmomist Impact
• Glohra
• Max Delbruck Center
• Medtronic
• The Global Fund