World Health Summit
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The World Health Summit is the gathering of leaders from academia
, science
, politics
and industry
as well as stakeholders of the private sector
and civil society
.
The summit under the patronage of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel
, and the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy
was initiated on the occasion of the 300th year anniversary of the Charité
– Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is now being held annually in Berlin
. The meeting is presided over by Prof. Detlev Ganten, a medical research scientist and Chairman of the Board of the Charité foundation. It is organized by the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Medical Universities together with the National Academies, the EU and WHO
.
in 2009, the conference’s mission is in keeping with the UN Declaration of Human Rights’(1948) acknowledgement of health as a fundamental human right. Since at present more than half of the world’s population is not receiving proper medical care, the organizers of the World Health Summit see their mission in the improvement of healthcare worldwide and the achievement of equitable access to medication and prevention. This mission is seen as threatened by unsolved and newly emerging problems such as: "The demographic shift to an ageing society; climate change and its health consequences that are already being felt; new types of epidemics, such as obesity, mental ill-health, and violence and injury, in developed and developing countries, in addition to the still raging epidemics of HIV
, TB
, and malaria
; the rising costs of health care; and the worldwide economic crisis and its serious threats to the health of populations across the globe."
Thus, the conference initiators intend to address these challenges by bringing together stakeholders from research
, education, clinical care and many other disciplines to jointly develop strategies to tackle these issues. The outcome of this multi-sectoral summit is intended to serve decision-makers and governments as recommendations for future healthcare challenges. .
The third World Health Summit took place from 23–26 October 2011 under the motto “Today’s Science – Tomorrows Agenda”. The meeting was be co-presided over by Prof. Dr. Steve Wesselingh from Monash University
, Melbourne, Australia.
In 2010, the Berlin World Health Summit was held from 10 – 13 October. The conference focused on the key topics: Translation – Transition – Transformation. In keeping with these topics, solutions facilitating the translation of medical knowledge into interventions that benefit patients across the globe, the new health challenges in a world of constant transition and the transformation of health politics and management to respond to these challenges were discussed. The co-president of the meeting was Prof. Stephen K. Smith, principal of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
.[]
Thus, in 2009, the Frankfurt-based organization medico international intitiated an alternative conference as a form of protest against the World Health Summit. Despite all the criticism of the summit, and in particular of its sponsors - the pharma industry - both sides, the critics and the initiators of the World Health Summit, showed a readiness to engage in a constructive discussion. Prof. Ganten invited the participants of the 2009 alternative conference to attend the World Health Summit 2010 and, thus, to enter into a dialogue.
is an academic network of institutions of education and research. It was first officially inaugurated in 2009, on occasion of the first World Health Summit. This international network provides the academic background behind the World Health Summit. According to the "M8 Alliance Profile", the network seeks to improve global health and works with political and economic decision makers and civil society to develop science-based solutions for health challenges worldwide. It was created as a permanent platform for framing future considerations of global medical developments and health challenges.http://
consists of twelve members. After the second World Health Summit in 2010, Sao Paulo University and the National University of Singapore joined the network. The M8 Alliance currently counts the following twelve members from five continents:
Stern online: Interview with Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten: "Medizin muss sozial gedacht sein". 08.10.2010.
Stern online: Interview with Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten: "Gesundheit muss ein persönliches Ziel sein". 18.06.2010. http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/media/press/2010/Sterninterview%20DG%2018062010%20de.pdf]
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
and industry
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
as well as stakeholders of the private sector
Private sector
In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...
and civil society
Civil society
Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...
.
The summit under the patronage of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005.From 2005 to 2009 she led a...
, and the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....
was initiated on the occasion of the 300th year anniversary of the Charité
Charité
The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for both the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After the merger with their fourth campus in 2003, the Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe....
– Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is now being held annually in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. The meeting is presided over by Prof. Detlev Ganten, a medical research scientist and Chairman of the Board of the Charité foundation. It is organized by the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Medical Universities together with the National Academies, the EU and WHO
Who
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.
Mission
According to the World Health Summit’s Mission Statement, published in The LancetThe Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is one of the world's best known, oldest, and most respected general medical journals...
in 2009, the conference’s mission is in keeping with the UN Declaration of Human Rights’(1948) acknowledgement of health as a fundamental human right. Since at present more than half of the world’s population is not receiving proper medical care, the organizers of the World Health Summit see their mission in the improvement of healthcare worldwide and the achievement of equitable access to medication and prevention. This mission is seen as threatened by unsolved and newly emerging problems such as: "The demographic shift to an ageing society; climate change and its health consequences that are already being felt; new types of epidemics, such as obesity, mental ill-health, and violence and injury, in developed and developing countries, in addition to the still raging epidemics of HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
, TB
TB
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, and malaria
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...
; the rising costs of health care; and the worldwide economic crisis and its serious threats to the health of populations across the globe."
Thus, the conference initiators intend to address these challenges by bringing together stakeholders from research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
, education, clinical care and many other disciplines to jointly develop strategies to tackle these issues. The outcome of this multi-sectoral summit is intended to serve decision-makers and governments as recommendations for future healthcare challenges. .
Summit Profile
Each year the World Health Summit is being held under a different motto and focuses on different key topics. The forth World Health Summit will be co-presided over by Prof. Micheal Klag, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and will take place from October 21 - 24.Previous Meetings
The first World Health Summit under the motto “The Evolution of Medicine” took place from 14 – 18 October 2009 at the Charité University, Berlin. 700 participants worked on concrete recommendations for dealing with pandemic planning, effective prevention strategies and climate change-related diseases. Prof. Axel Kahn from the Université Paris Descartes, France, held the co-presidency of the first World Health Summit.[]The third World Health Summit took place from 23–26 October 2011 under the motto “Today’s Science – Tomorrows Agenda”. The meeting was be co-presided over by Prof. Dr. Steve Wesselingh from Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
, Melbourne, Australia.
In 2010, the Berlin World Health Summit was held from 10 – 13 October. The conference focused on the key topics: Translation – Transition – Transformation. In keeping with these topics, solutions facilitating the translation of medical knowledge into interventions that benefit patients across the globe, the new health challenges in a world of constant transition and the transformation of health politics and management to respond to these challenges were discussed. The co-president of the meeting was Prof. Stephen K. Smith, principal of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
.[]
Criticism
The World Health Summit has been criticized by Thomas Gebauer, director of medico international, as an “elitist club of decision makers”, that ignores both the social factor of global health issues and the notion of health as a human right, but rather serves particular interests.Thus, in 2009, the Frankfurt-based organization medico international intitiated an alternative conference as a form of protest against the World Health Summit. Despite all the criticism of the summit, and in particular of its sponsors - the pharma industry - both sides, the critics and the initiators of the World Health Summit, showed a readiness to engage in a constructive discussion. Prof. Ganten invited the participants of the 2009 alternative conference to attend the World Health Summit 2010 and, thus, to enter into a dialogue.
M8 Alliance
The “M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, and Medical Universities”The M8 Alliance
“M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, and Medical Universities” is a network of academic institutions of educational and research excellence. It is the international collaboration that harnesses the academic backbone of the annual World Health Summit which was first officially inaugurated in...
is an academic network of institutions of education and research. It was first officially inaugurated in 2009, on occasion of the first World Health Summit. This international network provides the academic background behind the World Health Summit. According to the "M8 Alliance Profile", the network seeks to improve global health and works with political and economic decision makers and civil society to develop science-based solutions for health challenges worldwide. It was created as a permanent platform for framing future considerations of global medical developments and health challenges.http://
Members of the M8 Alliance
The M8 AllianceThe M8 Alliance
“M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, and Medical Universities” is a network of academic institutions of educational and research excellence. It is the international collaboration that harnesses the academic backbone of the annual World Health Summit which was first officially inaugurated in...
consists of twelve members. After the second World Health Summit in 2010, Sao Paulo University and the National University of Singapore joined the network. The M8 Alliance currently counts the following twelve members from five continents:
- CharitéCharitéThe Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for both the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After the merger with their fourth campus in 2003, the Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe....
– Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany - Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, Baltimore, USA - Kyoto UniversityKyoto University, or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...
Graduate School of Medicine, Japan - Monash UniversityMonash UniversityMonash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
of Melbourne, Australia - NUSNUSNUS may refer to:* Nu Skin Enterprises* Neglected and Underutilized Species, or Neglected and Underutilized Crops* National Union of Students * National Union of Students * National Union of Students...
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore - Peking Union Medical CollegePeking Union Medical CollegePeking Union Medical College is among the most selective medical colleges in the People's Republic of China and is renowned both in its own right and for being connected to one of China's most prestigious institutions of higher learning.-History:...
and Hospital and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China - Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
- SorbonneSorbonneThe Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
Paris Cité, France - University of Sao PauloUniversity of São PauloUniversidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
, Brazil - InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)
- Association of Academic Health Centers International (AAHCI)
External links
- Program 2011: http://www.sitzungsplan.de/whs2011/
- List of speakers 2011: http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/program/speakers/speakers-2011/
- List of Supporting Institutions 2011: http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/partners/supporting-institutions/
- Video Interviews, World Health Summit 2010: http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/media/video-gallery/2010/whs-2010/#c4115
- Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Botschaften von Globaler Relevanz. 22.10.2010. http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/media/press/Press_Downloads/D%C3%84B_Panel%20Discussion_Heft%2042_2010.pdf
- Der Tagesspiegel: Beratung auf Augenhöhe. 17.10.2010.http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/beratung-auf-augenhoehe/1959642.html
- Deutsche Welle – DW-World.de: Grenzüberschreitendes Krankheitsbild Diabetes. 14.10.2010http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6093210,00.html
- Zeit Online: Wie der Klimawandel die Weltgesundheit beeinflusst. 13.10.2010. http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2010-10/weltgesundheitsgipfel-klimawandel
- Deutsche Welle TV Europe: Tomorrow Today. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/episode/0,,6029997,00.html
- taz: Kranke Systeme. 10.10.2010https://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/kranke-systeme/
- Stern online: Auf dem Weg in eine chronisch kranke Zukunft. 10.10.2010. http://www.stern.de/gesundheit/world-health-summit-auf-dem-weg-in-eine-chronisch-kranke-zukunft-1611936.html
- http://The%20Lancet:%20Academic%20medicine%20must%20take%20its%20global%20role:%20the%20M8%20Allianceof%20Academic%20Health%20Centers%20and%20Medical%20Universities%20(Comment).%209.10.2010.%20http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/media/press/Press_Downloads/The%20Lancet_M8_Oct9.pdfThe Lancet: Academic medicine must take its global role: the M8 Allianceof Academic Health Centers and Medical Universities (Comment). 9.10.2010. http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/media/press/Press_Downloads/The%20Lancet_M8_Oct9.pdf]
Stern online: Interview with Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten: "Medizin muss sozial gedacht sein". 08.10.2010.
- http://www.stern.de/gesundheit/ex-charite-chef-im-interview-medizin-muss-sozial-gedacht-werden-1611951.html
Stern online: Interview with Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten: "Gesundheit muss ein persönliches Ziel sein". 18.06.2010. http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/media/press/2010/Sterninterview%20DG%2018062010%20de.pdf]