Description
This side event will explore how equitable access to medical countermeasures (MCMs) can be strengthened across the full emergency cycle - from preparedness to response.
Discussions will explore how national, regional and global systems can better align to ensure that life-saving health products reach all populations. Participants will examine how existing and future investments in the MCM ecosystem can be structured and governed to deliver both equity and efficiency.
The event takes place at a critical juncture in the evolution of the global health emergency architecture. Pending the entry into force of the Pandemic Agreement, countries have endorsed the WHO interim Medical Countermeasures Network (i-MCM-net) as a pragmatic bridge to advance implementation. The i-MCM-net is intended to support coordination across the global MCM architecture, and align ongoing initiatives.
Against this backdrop, this side event will focus on the work required to operationalize the MCM ecosystem, covering the full range of MCMs - from diagnostics and vaccines to therapeutics, personal protective equipment, oxygen, and other priority health products.
SPEAKERS
Keynote Address | Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director-General, European Commission Directorate-General for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (DG HERA)
- Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Secretary General, International Health Policy Program Foundation and Advisor for Global Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
- Matthias Seiche, Head of the Division Health Policy and Financing, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
- Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa, CEO, FIND – Diagnostics for All
- Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Acting Director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, World Health Organization
- Aurélia Nguyen, Deputy CEO, CEPI – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
Moderator | Suerie Moon, Co-Director, Global Health Centre and Professor of Practice, International Relations, Geneva Graduate Institute
Additional speakers will be announced soon.
CO-HOSTED by
The Global Health Centre's International Geneva Global Health Platform, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Management, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (DG HERA) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
