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About

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:

  • • pandemic prevention preparedness & response
  • • the future of health systems
  • • health as a human right

For each of these themes, we are seeking to answer three questions:

  • • What progress have we made so far during the SDGs period?
  • • What have we learned that can help us make even more progress by 2030?
  • • What is the role of parliamentarians in helping drive that progress?

Venue

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.

Program

All times in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
the future of health systems
health as a humen right
8:30 – 9:30 GMT
Roadmap to 2030 - Multilateralism as a driver to global health and development
Opening Session

While the world is currently debating a new global health architecture, we need to emphasize the importance of the legislative power at national, regional, and (...)

9:45 – 11:15 GMT
Preparing for the next pandemic by developing vaccines in 100 days
Session hosted by Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Investing in research, development and manufacturing for pandemic preparedness, both from domestic and foreign aid budgets, in an all of government strategy, is (...)

11:30 – 13:00 GMT
Effective Participation for Effective Responses: meaningful engagement in Pandemic Treaty Negotiations
Session hosted by Harm Reduction International

By focusing on participation in pandemic response and in treaty-making on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response at a pivotal time in the Pandemic Treat (...)

14:30 – 16:00 GMT
Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Architecture: New Developments & What is Next
Session hosted by the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention

On June 30th, 2022, the World Bank Board of Directors with support from the G20 approved the establishment of a Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Pandemic P (...)

16:15 – 16:45 GMT
Ending AIDS, ending inequalities and inequities: the role of parliamentarians.
Fireside Session hosted by UNAIDS

The global AIDS response has demonstrated that where parliaments and parliamentarians are effectively engaged, they can provide critical leadership in realizing (...)

17:00 – 17:30 GMT
UNITE – WHO Collaboration - A short introduction to the MoU and the 3 United Nations High-Level Meetings on Health
Session hosted by the World Health Organization

UNITE and WHO signed an MoU on 18 0ctober 2022 in the context of the World Health Summit. This agreement is particularly timely given that three High-Level Meet (...)

17:30 – 18:30 GMT
A regional dialogue on infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness
Session hosted by UNITE

Health is global, but the response is local. At the end of the first day of its Global Summit focusing on infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness, UNITE w (...)

9:00 – 10:30 GMT
The Global Fund Post 7th Replenishment - The Role of Members of Parliament and Domestic Health Financing
Session hosted by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Parliamentarians from all political parties have a critical role to play as advocates to defeat HIV, TB and malaria, to build stronger health systems able to re (...)

11:00 – 12:30 GMT
A more sustainable future with Digital Health and Innovation as a priority
Session hosted by UNITE

The world aspires to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 but is not on track. Nearly half the world’s population lacked access to affordable health (...)

12:30 – 12:45 GMT
Keynote Speech President of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
Session hosted by UNITE

14:00 – 15:30 GMT
Looking to the future: Moving from dual elimination of HIV and syphilis to triple elimination with hepatitis B and the role of parliamentarians
Session hosted by World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), Hepatitis Australia, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Hepatitis B Foundation, Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination (CGHE), and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

No child should start their life with the risk of acquiring a preventable infection. The elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepati (...)

15:45 – 17:00 GMT
A regional dialogue on the Tuberculosis (TB) response
Session hosted by UNITE

Health is global, but the response is local. At the end of the second day of its Global Summit focusing on the future of health systems, UNITE will host an inte (...)

9:00 – 10:30 GMT
Realizing the right to health for all through universal health coverage
Session hosted by UHC2030

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a new light on the deep interlinkages between universal health coverage (UHC) and health security. Where health systems have bee (...)

11:00 – 12:00 GMT
Achieving the global health targets through equitable access to health innovation
Session hosted by Unitaid

Covid-19 has hindered recent progresses made towards the response of the three diseases. The pandemic took a heavy toll on health systems around the globe and r (...)

14:00 – 15:30 GMT
Drug Policy and Global Health – Towards Policy Coherence for the Sustainable Development Goals
Session hosted by UNITE

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 (...)

15:45 – 16:45 GMT
A regional dialogue on universal health coverage
Session hosted by UNITE

Health is global, but the response is local. At the end of the third day of its Global Summit focusing on health as a human right, UNITE will host an interactiv (...)

17:00 – 18:00 GMT
From pandemic to prosperity - Health in all policies
Closing Session

In 2006,during the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the concept of Health in All Policies (HiAP) was created with the aim of (...)

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Host

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Victoria Grandsoult

Managing Director of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health

Speakers & Participants

Adeeba Kamarulzaman
Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Global Commission on Drug Policy

Akihito Watabe
Akihito Watabe

Program Manager UHC2030 Core Team

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Alexander Winch

Specialist; Advocacy, Health Financing Team

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Ángela León Cáceres

Coordinator of Women 4 Global Fund

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Augusto Santos Silva

President of the Portuguese Parliament

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Akua Sena Dansua

Former MP from Ghana

Hon. Amar Patnaik
Hon. Amar Patnaik

MP from India

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Ayesha Mohammed Al-Mulla

MP from United Arab Emirates

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Barbara M. Stocking

Chair, Panel for a Global Public Health Convention

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Cary James

CEO, World Hepatitis Alliance

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Christoph Benn

Director for Global Health Diplomacy at the Joep Lange Institute

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Daniel Lilayu

MP from Chile

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Daniel Molokela Tsiye

MP from Zimbabwe

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Elisa Scolaro

External Relations Officer, Parliamentary Engagement, WHO

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Eloise Todd

Executive Director & Co-Founder of Pandemic Action Network

Esther Passaris
Hon. Esther Passaris

MP from Kenya

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Fadi F. Alame

MP from Lebanon

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Francesca Colombo

Head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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Frederik Kristensen

Deputy CEO at CEPI

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Galyna Mykhailiuk

MP from Ukraine

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Giada Girelli

Senior Analyst at Harm Reduction International

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Gisela Scaglia

Former MP from Argentina

Hon. Prof. Dr. Habibe Millat, MP
Hon. Prof. Dr. Habibe Millat, MP

MP from Bangladesh

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Ibtissame Azzaoui

MP from Morocco

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Ilona Kickbusch

International Advisory Board Chair, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

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Gabriela Cuevas Barron

Co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee

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Jean François Mbaye

Former MP from France

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Jimena López

MP from Argentina

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John Ward

Director of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination

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José Gustavo Rivera

MP from USA

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Kelvin Yii Lee Wuen

MP from Malaysia

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Laetitia Bosio

Program Manager (UHC2030), Health Systems Governance and Financing, WHO

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Lawrence O. Gostin

University Professor and Founding O’Neill Chair in Global

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Lenin Laínez

Former MP from Honduras

Liam Byrne
Liam Byrne

MP from UK

Lucica Ditiu
Lucica Ditiu

Executive Director Stop TB Partnership

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Luis Enrique Gallo

MP from Uruguay

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Luís Goes Pinheiro

Chairman Board of Directors

Luis Mendão
Luis Mendão

Chairman of the Board of GAT - Treatment Activists Group

Luis Sambo
Luis Sambo

Former MP from Angola

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Lynn Ruane

MP from Ireland

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Manuel Pizarro

Minister of Health Portugal

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María José Plaza

MP from Ecuador

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Mariam Jashi

Former MP from Georgia

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Marie Nougier

Head of Research and Communications chez International Drug Policy Consortium

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Marta Salinas

MP from Chile

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Matthew M. Kavanagh

Deputy Executive Director, a.i., Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge

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Maurine Murenga

Board Member

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Neema Lugangira

MP from Tanzania

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Neren Rau

CEPI

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Nick Herbert

Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom

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Paul Nunesdea

Co-Founder of Digital Health Portugal and Health Data Forum Firestarter

Peter Njume Ambang
Peter Njume Ambang

MP from Cameroon

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Ricardo Baptista Leite

MP from Portugal

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Ricky Gunawan

Asia Program Officer of the Global Drug Policy Program – OSF

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Roland Van de Vem

Technical Director, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Tanzania

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Ruth Labode

MP from Zimbabwe

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Saraí Nuñez Cerón

MP from Mexico

Saranbaatar Bayarmagnai
Saranbaatar Bayarmagnai

Human Rights Officer in the Civic Space Unit at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Scott Boule

Senior Specialist for Parliamentary Affairs at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria

Shaibu Issa
Shaibu Issa

Hepatitis B advocate, Tanzania

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

WHO Director-General

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Tenu Avafia

Deputy Executive Director, Unitaid

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Valentina Buliga

Former MP from Moldova

Vera Cordeiro
Vera Cordeiro

Founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Dara Institute

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Zainab Katimba

MP from Tanzania

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Zaved Mahmood

Human Rights and Drug Policy Advisor, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

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