Global hepatitis webinar – Let's break it down!

28 July 2025 13:30 – 15:00 CET
Hybrid from Geneva, Switzerland

World Hepatitis Day 2025 global webinar will provide a critical platform for collaboration with partners and engagement with governments, health professionals and the public to drive advocacy, awareness and action to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health problem.

This global webinar will include high level ministerial remarks, presentations and panel discussions. It will provide spotlights and country progress from communities and partners, as well as effective and innovative public health strategies to scale-up country responses to reach the 2030 hepatitis elimination targets.

The theme for 2025: Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down calls for urgent action to dismantle the financial, social and systemic barriers – including stigma – that stand in the way of hepatitis elimination and liver cancer prevention.

Date and time

Monday 28 July 2024, 13:30 – 15:00 pm (CEST)

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Agenda

Introduction

  • Meg Doherty (Director, Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes, WHO)
  • Olufunmilayo Lesi (Team lead, Global Hepatitis Programme, WHO)

Welcome remarks and opening address

  • Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
  • Professor Mohammed Yakub Janabi, Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • Rotary International
  • Dr R. P. Shanmugam, Chennai Liver Foundation, India 
  • Rachel Halford, President, World Hepatitis Alliance

High level ministerial remarks:
What critical country actions are needed to accelerate the hepatitis response?

Representatives from the ministries of health from: 

  • China
  • Thailand
  • Rwanda

Round the world in 10 minutes (civil society and countries)

Live panel discussion:
Breaking the barriers to hepatitis elimination and liver cancer prevention

  • PATH
  • ANRS Emerging infectious diseases
  • Gavi
  • Rotary International
  • Countries: Brazil and Pakistan

Closing remarks

Rotary International and WHO