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.
What’s the importance of the Summit?
This year’s Summit comes at a particularly opportune moment. The world is recovering from the most severe public health crisis in 100 years, while simultaneously marking the halfway point of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) period. The pandemic has set back the fight against many 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.
This year, each day of the main agenda will be dedicated to one of our three core strategic themes:
For each of these themes, we are seeking to answer three questions:
This year, for the first time, the Summit will be hosted in-person, at the Portuguese Parliament, in Lisbon, Portugal.
An interactive platform will also be available, where the sessions will be live-streamed during the 3 days of the event.
All times in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
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The drug control system has not only failed to achieve its stated goal of preventing the misuse of drugs to ensure the ‘health and welfare of mankind,’ but it h (...)
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Managing Director of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health
Global Commission on Drug Policy
Program Manager UHC2030 Core Team
Specialist; Advocacy, Health Financing Team
Coordinator of Women 4 Global Fund
President of the Portuguese Parliament
Former MP from Ghana
MP from India
MP from United Arab Emirates
Chair, Panel for a Global Public Health Convention
CEO, World Hepatitis Alliance
Director for Global Health Diplomacy at the Joep Lange Institute
MP from Chile
MP from Zimbabwe
External Relations Officer, Parliamentary Engagement, WHO
Executive Director & Co-Founder of Pandemic Action Network
MP from Kenya
MP from Lebanon
Head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Deputy CEO at CEPI
MP from Ukraine
Senior Analyst at Harm Reduction International
Former MP from Argentina
MP from Bangladesh
MP from Morocco
International Advisory Board Chair, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva
Co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee
Former MP from France
MP from Argentina
Director of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination
MP from USA
MP from Malaysia
Program Manager (UHC2030), Health Systems Governance and Financing, WHO
University Professor and Founding O’Neill Chair in Global
Former MP from Honduras
MP from UK
Executive Director Stop TB Partnership
MP from Uruguay
Chairman Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board of GAT - Treatment Activists Group
Former MP from Angola
MP from Ireland
Minister of Health Portugal
MP from Ecuador
Former MP from Georgia
Head of Research and Communications chez International Drug Policy Consortium
MP from Chile
Deputy Executive Director, a.i., Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge
Board Member
MP from Tanzania
CEPI
Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom
Co-Founder of Digital Health Portugal and Health Data Forum Firestarter
MP from Cameroon
MP from Portugal
Asia Program Officer of the Global Drug Policy Program – OSF
Technical Director, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Tanzania
MP from Zimbabwe
MP from Mexico
Human Rights Officer in the Civic Space Unit at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Senior Specialist for Parliamentary Affairs at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria
Hepatitis B advocate, Tanzania
WHO Director-General
Deputy Executive Director, Unitaid
Former MP from Moldova
Founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Dara Institute
MP from Tanzania
Human Rights and Drug Policy Advisor, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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