UNITE Global Summit 2022

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This year’s Summit comes at a particularly opportune moment. The world is recovering from the most severe public health crisis in 100 years and simultaneously marking the halfway point of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) period.

The pandemic has set back the fight against many infectious diseases by years. New partnerships, new ways of thinking, and new funding will be needed to get back on track and achieve the promise of the SDGs. The UNITE Global Summit will catalyze that renewed effort.

The main agenda of the UNITE Global Summit will dedicate sessions each day to one of our three core strategic themes:

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way that billions of people around the world work, live, and go about their daily lives. It has resulted in millions of deaths and left a deep impact on the health and wellbeing of hundreds of millions more. It has unlocked innovation on an unprecedented scale and speed, and highlighted systemic weaknesses in the way that novel medicines are distributed.

One of the innovations brought by COVID-19 was the provision of real-time data on cases and deaths from most countries in the world. Experts shared genomic data at incredible speed, warning of the emergence of new variants weeks or even months before they spread around the world. Health systems facilitated the trialling of old therapeutics for a new threat, mainstreaming the use of drugs like Dexamethasone and saving hundreds of lives. These are just a handful of the innovations that could revolutionize the way health is delivered around the world, without even considering the wider range of advances brought through the digitization of health systems.

Every major health crisis of the last hundred years has hit the most marginalized the hardest. Whether that is vulnerable groups in high-income countries, or entire populations in low-and middle-income countries that cannot get access to life-saving medicines, it is the poorest who struggle most. Yet, for over fifty years, the human right to health has been universally recognized by the world's governments - even if we are not delivering on IT.

5, 6 & 7 December 2022

The UNITE Global Summit is the world’s leading Forum for forging partnerships between parliamentarians and leaders from the global health community. Over three days, experts from civil society, affected communities, international organizations and academia will come together with leading parliamentarians from across the world, to discuss the most pressing issues in Global Health and set the agenda for the year to come.

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