World Health Summit opened in Berlin

At the opening ceremony, German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) said: “The vitalnecessity for the global community is to come together and unite in confronting ourcommon global health challenges.  EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides stated that, anew EU global healthstrategy is already on the road to implementation. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “Humanity faces so many health challenges now, from war to the climatecrisis; deepening poverty and growing hunger; rapidly depleting natural resources andnatural disasters, and of course, global and regional disease outbreaks.” Mia Mottley, Premier Minister of Barbados, commented in her speech: " If we want to achieve better health outcomes for the world's poor, whichincludes just about half of the population, then we need to develop more effective financing mechanisms that help the Global South build up its public health systems and to create robust and responsive domestic infrastructure.” All speakers called for global cooperation.

The 2023 WHS will put a focus on topics such as climate change and health, pandemic
prevention, digital technologies,  the role of the G7 and G20 in global health, and the 75th anniversary of
the WHO.