Speakers

The World Health Summit brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future.

Speakers at the World Health Summit 2024 include:

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

Muna Abu Sin

Ambassador on Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)

Germany

Inger Ashing

CEO, Save the Children International

United Kingdom

Jarbas Barbosa

Regional Director for the Americas, World Health Organization (WHO)

Winnie Byanyima

Executive Director, UNAIDS

Meeyoung Cha

Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Germany

Ru-fong Joanne Cheng

Director, Women’s Health Innovations, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

United States of America

Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda

Minister of Health

Malawi

Helen Clark

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

Switzerland

Awa Marie Coll-Seck

President, Forum Galien Africa

Senegal

Patrick Cramer

President, Max-Planck-Society

Germany

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

Victor J. Dzau

President, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

United States of America

Obiageli Ezekwesili

CEO, Human Capital Africa

Nigeria

Rose Gana Fomban Leke

Emeritus Professor of Immunology and Parasitology, University of Yaoundé

Cameroon

Atul Gawande

Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

United States of America

Garth Graham

Managing Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, Google

United States of America

Jane Halton

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

Norway

Richard Horton

Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

United Kingdom

Chikwe Ihekweazu

Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems in the Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)

Jayasree K. Iyer

CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation

The Netherlands

Dean Jamison

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

United States of America

Natalia Kanem

Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Jean Kaseya

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

Ethiopia

Afshan Khan

Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations & Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition Movement

Rajat Khosla

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

Switzerland

Ilona Kickbusch

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

Switzerland

Heyo Kroemer

CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Germany

Hatice Küçük Beton

Executive Director, The G20 & G7 Health and Development Partnership

United Kingdom

Pascal Lamy

Former Director-General of the World Trade Organization & Chair, Climate Overshoot Commission

France

Vanina Laurent-Ledru

Director General, Sanofi Foundation

France

Karl Lauterbach

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

Germany

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Founder and President, One Health Trust

United States of America

Michael Makanga

Executive Director, European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

Netherlands

Susana Malcorra

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

Spain

Jeni Miller

Executive Director, The Global Climate and Health Alliance

María Neira

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

Sania Nishtar

CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Switzerland

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

President and Chief Executive Officer, The ONE Campaign

United States of America

Peter Piot

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

United Kingdom

Naveen Rao

Senior Vice President, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation

United States of America

David Reddy

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

Switzerland

Magda Robalo

Co-Chair, UHC2030 Steering Committee

Switzerland

Peter Sands

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

Switzerland

Svenja Schulze

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

Germany

Michael Sen

CEO, Fresenius

Germany

Olive Shisana

Special Advisor on Social Policy to the President

South Africa

Lia Tadesse

Former Minister of Health of Ethiopia & Executive Director, Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program

United States of America

Juan Pablo Uribe

Global Director for Health, Nutrition & Population and the Global Financing Facility (GFF), The World Bank

United States of America

Justin Vaïsse

Founder and Director-General, Paris Peace Forum

France

Monique Wasunna

Africa Ambassador, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

Kenya

Saima Wazed

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

Durhane Wong-Rieger

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Organization for Rare Disorder (CORD)

Canada

Gavin Yamey

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

United States of America

Jennifer Young

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

United States of America

Marzia Zambon

Executive Director, Europa Donna

Italy