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  

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 Miriam Were, Public health advocate and member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences (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: 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

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)
• Richard Walker, Director of Institutional Relations, People in Need (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