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World Health Summit 2017 - Speaker Update: Female Expertise
- Central Keynote Lectures
- World Health Summit Night
- Satellite Events
- Winners: "Next Generation of Science Journalists"-Award
Community Bulletin - Federal Minister of Health convenes International Advisory Council
- Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017
- FMUSP Winter School 2017
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Speaker Update: Female Expertise
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The World Health Summit brings together experts from all over the world and profits even more from its even gender balance (participants' information >). At the event, you can look forward to meeting many leading female figures, including:
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Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize laureate / President Emerita, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
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Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of Health, Senegal
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Francesca Colombo, Head of Health Division, OECD, France
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Katie Dain, CEO, NCD Alliance, UK
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Ruth Dreifuss, Co-Chair, United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines, Switzerland
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Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
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Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Botswana
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Health Policy in the G7/G20
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Oct. 16, 2017
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Hosts: - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- M8 Alliance
Chair:
Michael J. Klag
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Speakers:
Dean Jamison
Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Neil Jordan
General Manager, Health Worldwide, Microsoft, USA
Georg Schütte
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
Annette Widmann-Mauz
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
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Innovations in Digital Health
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Oct. 16, 2017
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Hosts: - M8 Alliance
- SAP SE
- University of Coimbra
Chair:
João Gabriel Silva
Dean, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Portugal
Speakers:
Arnaud Bernaert
Head, Global Health and Healthcare Industries, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
Adalberto Campos Fernandes
Minister of Health, Portugal
Steven Hildemann
Global Chief Medical Officer, Head of Global Medical Affairs and Patient Safety, Merck, Germany
Carla Kriwet
CEO, Connected Care & Health Informatics, Royal Philips, USA
Thomas P. Laur
President, SAP Health, USA
Line Matthiessen-Guyader
Acting Director of E-Health Directorate, European Commission, Belgium
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Vaccine Research and Development
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Oct. 17, 2017
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Hosts: - Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- M8 Alliance
- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Chair:
Peter Piot
Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Speakers:
Richard Hatchett
CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, UK
Stefan Kaufmann
Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
Heidi J. Larson
Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project, UK
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All keynote lectures will be held at the Plenary Hall - Rudolf Virchow.
More details on topics and speakers are available in our interactive program planner >
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World Health Summit Night
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The World Health Summit Night as the central networking event hosts the award ceremony of the Startup Track with German Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe.
Date: October 16
Opening: 6:00pm
Beginning: 6:30pm
Location: Plenary Hall - Rudolf Virchow
Venue: Kosmos, Karl-Marx-Allee 131a, 10243 Berlin
Every World Health Summit participant is invited to take part. External guests can buy tickets on-site for €40 each.
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There’s plenty of other action surrounding this year's World Health Summit, including a discussion on Berlin's role in global health, a hackathon to improve urban health in low and middle income countries, German-African symposia, and much more.
Learn more on our Satellite Events 2017 >
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"Next Generation of Science Journalists"-Award
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It’s the fifth time this prestigious award is being granted to five outstanding young science journalists. We received applications from 20 countries. The five winning articles are available here:
Journalists' Award 2017 >
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Federal Minister of Health convenes International Advisory Council
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With the aim of working out stimuli for the solution of global health policy challenges, German Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe has convened an "International Advisory Council on Global Health Policy".
Members and further information >
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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017
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The 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities has just been released by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. M8 Alliance partners once again scored well, with six member institutions in the Top 100:
Ranking 2017 >
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The "Winter School" > organized by M8 Alliance partner University of São Paulo > brought together students from all over the world for special lectures at the university’s Medical Faculty. 144 applications were sent in, 62 were accepted.
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The initiative closely reflects the core idea behind the M8 Alliance mission: bringing together the world’s brightest minds to learn from and cooperate with one another.
Learn more about the M8 Alliance >
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Berlin, Germany
October 15-17, 2017
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