Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly Strategic Roundtable
67 million children missed at least one dose of essential vaccines in the last three years. Our efforts leading to 2025 have the potential to change the negative impacts the pandemic had on life-saving vaccination efforts. Through intensified action, we can prevent surges in vaccine-preventable diseases and address pre-existing gaps in healthcare services exposed by the pandemic.
Many countries are already making remarkable progress towards immunization recovery. This roundtable will examine the factors that drive this success. Special attention will be given to the role of community health workers in achieving global immunization targets. We will hear from health-care workers, ministers and representatives of government, multilateral organizations, and civil society about what each stakeholder needs to do to reach all children and adolescents in support of #HealthForAll.
The session takes place in UN Palais de Nations, Room XVIII on Friday 26 May 2023 between 13:00–14:15 CEST.
Moderator
Renee Ngamau
Panelists
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
Dr Kate O’Brien, Director, Immunization, Vaccines & Biologicals (IVB), WHO
His Excellency Dr Ali Haji Adam Abubakar, Minister of Health, Somalia
Dr Bikas Devkota, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal
Mr Andrei Cazacu, Head of External Assistance, Coordination Service Foreign Assistance Department, Ministry of Health, Moldova
Dr Seth Berkely, CEO, Gavi Alliance
Dr Sheetal Sharma, CORE Group
Mr George Mwinnya, Health worker, Ghana
Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
Dr Yassen Tcholakov, Health worker, Junior Doctors Network as part of the World Medical Association