Berlin Welcomes 2020’s World Health Summit with New Hybrid Concept

Due to COVID-19, the World Health Summit 2020 is a hybrid conference with digital and onsite participation: All 50 keynotes, panel discussions and workshops are broadcast live and are available online. Main topic of this years event will be „Pandemic Preparedness in the Age of COVID-19“. The COVID 19 pandemic has once again shown that we need everyone to get involved in a massive effort to keep the world safe. Researchers are working at high speed to understand new viruses, develop treatments and vaccines to curb pandemics and prevent future outbreaks. 

During the pandemic, the capital region Berlin-Brandenburg in particular showed a high degree of solidarity with one another, but also echoes its international reputation as a life science region in the fight against corona.  

While research and development activities for the diagnosis and treatment of SARS-CoV-2, as well as targeted strategic partnerships for care in the region are making progress, the topic of "pandemic preparedness" is increasingly coming into focus. With COVID-19 new forms of collaboration have emerged for scientists around the world to share results much faster than during any previous outbreaks. With leadership by the World Health Organization (WHO), science has to take a collective and non-discriminative responsibility to support such a global governance. Other topics of this year´s World Health Summit include „Translational Research“, Digital Health & AI for Pandemic Preparedness“ and „Climate Change and Health.  

The World Health Summit is one of the world's most important strategic forums for global health and brings together leading international scientists, politicians and representatives from industry and civil society. It was founded in 2009 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Charité and is held under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization WHO. 

 

Due to COVID-19, the World Health Summit 2020 is a hybrid conference with digital and onsite participation: All 50 keynotes, panel discussions and workshops are broadcast live and are available online. Main topic of this years event will be „Pandemic Preparedness in the Age of COVID-19“. The COVID 19 pandemic has once again shown that we need everyone to get involved in a massive effort to keep the world safe. Researchers are working at high speed to understand new viruses, develop treatments and vaccines to curb pandemics and prevent future outbreaks. 

During the pandemic, the capital region Berlin-Brandenburg in particular showed a high degree of solidarity with one another, but also echoes its international reputation as a life science region in the fight against corona.  

While research and development activities for the diagnosis and treatment of SARS-CoV-2, as well as targeted strategic partnerships for care in the region are making progress, the topic of "pandemic preparedness" is increasingly coming into focus. With COVID-19 new forms of collaboration have emerged for scientists around the world to share results much faster than during any previous outbreaks. With leadership by the World Health Organization (WHO), science has to take a collective and non-discriminative responsibility to support such a global governance. Other topics of this year´s World Health Summit include „Translational Research“, Digital Health & AI for Pandemic Preparedness“ and „Climate Change and Health.  

The World Health Summit is one of the world's most important strategic forums for global health and brings together leading international scientists, politicians and representatives from industry and civil society. It was founded in 2009 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Charité and is held under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization WHO.