WHS Ceremony 2013

More than 1,000 international participants worked together from October 20 – 22 in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.

Irrespective of sectorial origins, it was mutually agreed that only timely joint action can overcome obstacles towards improving health worldwide.

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The World Health Summit 2013 brought a well of keynote lectures, workshops, and symposia, accompanied by satellite events, private meetings, and much more.

You can easily re-visit these through our multimedia-update, including the WHS Movie:

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Daniel Bahr, Minister of Health, Germany, arriving at the WHS 2013

Most speakers, participating in the WHS 2013, kindly agreed to make their presentations available as downloads.

Please find individual zip-folders, containing presentations per day, in the <link login.html _blank external-link-new-window external link in new>WHS Community >>>

The WHS Community is available to fully registered WHS participants. This networking tool offers contact details and CV of speakers and attendants. Please follow the link to find details on <link news latest-news whs-community.html _blank external-link-new-window external link in new>login-data, terms of usage, etc. >>>

WHS Regional Meeting – Latin America, São Paulo

Date: April 6 – 8, 2014
Location: University of São Paulo Medical School – FMUSP

The WHS Regional Meeting – Latin America, to be held in São Paulo and organized by the University of São Paulo Medical School, will focus on Latin America´s health challenges. Ministers of Health from all over Latin America will be invited to share their firsthand experience of policy and health system reform.

Much like the annual meeting in Berlin and the inaugural WHS Regional Meeting – Asia, held in Singapore in April 2013, São Paulo will be a chance for NGOs, representatives of civil society and international aid organizations, playing major roles in public health and health care provision in Latin America, to meet and consult on the continent’s most pressing health issues.

The program will be organized along five tracks:

Jose Auler, presenting the "Outlook to São Paulo" at the WHS 2013

1. Healthy Life Expectancy
2. Urban Health / Health in Megacities
3. Increased Research Capacity to Incorporate Technologies
4. Management of Health Systems to Ensure Universal Coverage
5. Health Education

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