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BERLIN, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- Press accreditation open for the world's leading global health conference

The World Health Summit and the World Health Organization (WHO) as co-organizer

jointly invite to the world's leading global health conference. The World

Health Summit 2022 from October 16-18 in Berlin will bring together the most

prominent names in global health from all sectors in all regions of the world:

heads of state and government ministers, scientists, and representatives from

the private sector as well as civil society.

Journalists can apply for on-site participation until Wednesday, October 12

here ( https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2022/media-center/accreditation ).

WHS 2022 aims to set the course for a healthier, more equitable future. Central

topics include climate change and health, pandemic preparedness, digital

transformation, and sustainable health systems.

See program (

https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2022/program-speakers/program.html )

Speakers 2022 include:

   -- Olaf Scholz, Federal Chancellor, Germany

   -- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization

      (WHO)

   -- Emmanuel Macron, President, France

   -- Macky Sall, President, Senegal & Chairperson, African Union

   -- Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, Germany

   -- Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development,

      Germany

   -- Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Minister of Education and Research,

      Germany

   -- Steffi Lemke, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation,

      Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Germany

   -- Wilhelmina S. Jallah, Minister of Health, Liberia

   -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President, Liberia & Co-Chair of the

      Advisory Board of "Our Common Agenda," United Nations

   -- Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank Group

   -- Christos Christou, International President, Doctors Without Borders

   -- Heyo K. Kroemer, CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

   -- Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust

More speakers (

https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2022/program-speakers/speakers.html )

WHS 2022 is the first joint World Health Summit together with WHO. Patrons are

German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Press information:

https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whs-2022/media-center.html

The entire World Health Summit is open to the press, but places for journalists

on-site are limited. Digital participation requires no accreditation, links

will be available shortly before WHS 2022 at www.worldhealthsummit.org

World Health Summit

October 16-18, 2022

Hotel Berlin Central District

Stauffenbergstraße 26

Berlin, Germany & Digital

www.worldhealthsummit.org

#WHS2022

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Press contact

Alida Tiekötter

communications@worldhealthsummit.org

+49 30 450 572102

SOURCE: World Health Summit