Programme

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

09:30 – 09:40 | Opening

  • Isabelle Le Galo Flores, European and Economic Social Committee (EESC) Secretary-General

09:40 – 09:55 | Keynote speech

  • Professor Glenda Sluga, European University Institute, Florence  

09:55 – 10:10 | Keynote speech

  • Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva  

10:10 – 10:45 | High-level panel 

Moderator: Stefano Palmieri, President of the EESC’s External Relations Section  

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

  • Dr Githinji Gitahi, Group Chief Executive Officer, Amref Health Africa (tbc) 

  • Mr Adam Jarubas, Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Public Health (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: Milena Angelova, EESC Member 

  • European Commission, DG SANTE
  • Nathalie Moll, Director General, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
  • Rhoda Boateng, Coordinator for Climate Change & Occupational Health and Safety, ITUC-Africa 
  • Douglas Carpenter, EU Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Dr Christopher Nehring, Adenauer Stiftung (tbc)

Q&A Session

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: Luca Jahier, EESC Member

  • Médecins sans Frontières
  • Julia Pogrebna, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Programming, New Dawn 
  • UNICEF (tbc)

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

  • Dr Sania Nishtar, Chief Executive Officer, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance (tbc)
  • Philippe Duneton, Executive Director, Unitaid (tbc)

  • A representative of SOS Children's Villages (tbc) 

  • A representative of Red Cross EU Office (tbc)

Q&A Session

12:45 – 13:00 | Concluding remarks

 

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