Programme for the EESC Session – European Public Diplomacy Days

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

• 09:30 – 09:45 Opening: Isabelle Le Galo Flores, Secretary-General, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) 

• 09:45 – 10:45 Keynote speeches 

  Moderator: Tanja Buzek, Vice-President of the EESC’s External Relations Section

   09:45 – 10:05 Professor Glenda Sluga, European University Institute, Florence 

  10:05 – 10:25 Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva

  10:25 – 10:45 Dr Rispah Walumbe, Head of Strategy and Policy, Amref Health Africa

• 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: Gaja Šavelė, EESC Member  

  - Florina Telea, Head of Unit, International Multilateral Relations, DG SANTE, European Commission

  - Mariano Votta, Director of the Active Citizenship Network and Head of European Policy at Cittadinanzattiva, Italy

  - Rhoda Boateng, Coordinator for Climate Change & Occupational Health and Safety, ITUC-Africa

  - Douglas Carpenter, EU Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo

  - Milena Angelova, EESC Member 

Q&A Session

• 11:30 – 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: Luca Jahier, EESC Member  

  - Sergio Cecchini, Humanitarian Representative to the European Union and NATO, Médecins sans Frontières 

  - Julia Pogrebna, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Programming, New Dawn, Ukraine

  - Nagwa Hasanin, Senior Adviser in Health, UNICEF 

Q&A Session

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

  Moderator: István Komoróczki, EESC member 

  - Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Vice-President, Gapminder Foundation, Sweden

  - Mette Petersen, Director of the Red Cross EU Office

  - Professor Dr Ray Walley, Professor of General Practice, Treasurer, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)

  - Daphne Heijdelberg, Senior Associate Climate Action & Migration Health, International Organization for Migration (IOM) 

Q&A Session 

• 12:45 – 13:00 Concluding remarks

  Tanja Buzek, Vice-President of the EESC’s External Relations Section

Language regime: Participants can speak and listen in English and in French.