Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly Strategic Roundtable
At the 77th World Health Assembly Member States will be invited to approve WHO’s new strategy for 2025–2028, the 14th General Programme of Work (GPW14). The strategy is a co-creation of all Member States and partners facilitated by the WHO Secretariat that will accelerate progress in health and well-being for everyone, everywhere. By 2028 through the GPW14, WHO will have realized further major health gains: the combined efforts of WHO together with Member States and partners across the wide domain of health will have saved 40 million lives.
To deliver on this strategy, WHO needs to be predictably and sustainably financed. WHO’s new Investment Case, entitled "All for Health, Health for All," will be launched at this event. This publication will demonstrate WHO's unique value proposition, policy commitments, and transformative potential under GPW14, produced with inputs from WHO Member States, stakeholders, and global health partners. Participants will be presented with rich data and examples of WHO’s impact globally and in countries. Speakers will set out WHO’s unique role in global health, consider the opportunities and challenges for global health in the next four years, and share their support for a successful Investment Round as Member States and others rally around a sustainably financed WHO.
The session takes place at the UN Palais des Nations, Room XX on Tuesday 28 May 2024 between 13:00–14:15 CEST.
The strategic roundtables span the overarching theme of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly: All for health, health for all, and WHO Investment Round, allowing participants to reflect on the Organization’s achievements, current and future challenges facing global health.
Moderator
John-Arne Rottingen
Panelists
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, Indonesia
Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Health, Singapore
Juan Pablo Uribe, Global Director for Health Nutrition and Population at the World Bank
Nandita Das, Actor, filmmaker, and social advocate
Stephen Donnelly, Minister of Health, Ireland
Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships (video)
Mark Butler, Minister of Health and Aged Care, Australia
Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Division, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Lord Nick Markham, Minister for the Lords, Department of Health and Social Care, United Kingdom
Suzanne Ahialegbedzi Steensen, Head, Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) Secretariat
*Additional speakers may be announced.