Programme

EESC Session:  "Civil society, health and peace – together for global solidarity"

09:30 – 09:40 | EESC Secretary-General 

09:40 – 09:55 | Keynote speech

• Professor Glenda Sluga, European University Institute, Florence (tbc)

09:55 – 10:10 | Keynote speech: Professor Ilona Kickbusch (tbc)

10:10 – 10:45 | High-level panel 

Moderator: [Name tbc] 

• Dr Miriam Were (tbc)
• Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) (tbc)

10:45–11:30 | Panel 1: Civil society as a partner in health diplomacy: How can we ensure health resilience and fight health disinformation 

Moderator: [Name tbc] 

• European Commission, DG SANTE  (tbc)
• Nathalie Moll, Director General, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) (tbc)
• ITUC-Africa – on health and safety at work as a basis for national resilient health systems  (tbc)
• EU Ambassador DR Congo Nicolás Berlanga-Martinez (tbc)
• Dr. Christopher Nehring, Adenauer Stiftung – on the fight against health disinformation (tbc)

11:15 – 12:00 | Panel 2: Preventing the instrumentalisation of health in armed conflicts? Promoting health as a driver of peace? What civil society can do 

Moderator: [Name tbc] 

• Médecins sans Frontières or Croix Rouge  (tbc)
• New Dawn organization (tbc)
• UNICEF  (tbc)
• Richard Walker, Institutional Relations Director, People in Need (tbc)

12:00 – 12:45 | Panel 3: No health without equity: Civil society as a bridge between poverty reduction and health improvement

• Authors of the WHO World report on social determinants of health equity (tbc)
• Dr Sania Nishtar, Chief Executive Officer, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance (tbc)
• Philippe Duneton, Executive Director, Unitaid (tbc)
• Rana AlZoubi, Chair of the General Assembly of SOS Children's Villages (tbc)

12:45 – 13:00 | Concluding remarks