World Congress on Public Health - Plenary programme
Opening Ceremony of the 16th World Congress on Public Health
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Moderator: Walter Ricciardi, Chair of the 16th World Congress on Public Health
Keynote speaker: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (by video)
Plenary 1 - What happened to the Enlightment?
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Moderators: Giuseppe Remuzzi, Italy, and Vina Hulamm, United States
Speakers/panellists:
Stefan Buttigieg, Malta
Carole Cadwalladr, UK
Summer May Finlay, Australia
Walter Ricciardi, Italy
Plenary 2 – The Earth: a strategy for survival
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Moderators: Caroline Costongs, Director EuroHealthNet
Speakers/Panellists:
Desmond D'Sa, South Africa
Sir Andy Haines, UK
Stella Kyriakides, EC
Diogo Martins, Portugal
Katherine Trebeck, Austrakua
Carolina Urrutia, Colombia
Plenary 3 - Leading the way to a healthier world
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Moderators: Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, President EUPHA, and Carlo Signorelli, Italy
Speakers/Panellists:
Sandro Galea, Dean Robert A. Knox School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, United States
Anna Odone, Italy
Bronwyn King, Australia
Plenary 4 – The Digital Information Revolution
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Organisers:
Moderators: Isabel de la Mata, European Commission and James Chauvin, Canada
Speakers/Panellists:
Maurício Lima Barreto, Brazil
Malebona Matsoso, South Africa
Martin McKee, United Kingdom
Clayton Hamilton, WHO
Plenary 5 - Health systems fit for the future: promoting better health, economic growth and social cohesion
Thursday 15 October 2020
Moderators: Walter Ricciardi, Italy, and Sheila Tlou, Botswana
Speakers/Panellists:
Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, WHO EURO
Ruediger Krech, WHO
Gita Sen, India
Patricio V. Marquez, Ecuador
Sara Cerdas, MEP, Portugal
Katie Gallagher, EPF
Plenary 6 - Revolutionalizing the public health workforce as agents of change
Friday 16 October 2020
Moderator:
Kasia Czabanowska, The Netherlands and Luís Eugênio de Souza, Brazil
Speakers/panellists:
Laura Magaña, Mexico)
Philip Baba Adongo, Ghana
John Middleton, United Kingdom
Naomar de Almeida-Filho, Brazil
Pete Milos Venticich, Australia
Barbara Bürkin, Switzerland
Plenary 7 - Moving out of the silos
Friday 16 October 2020
Moderators: Michael Moore (Australia) and Roberta Siliquini (Italy)
Speakers/panellists:
Stephen K. Klasko, USA
Walter Flores, Guatemala
Iveta Nagyova, EUPHA
Roopa Dhatt, Women in Global Health
Plenary 8 - Making a difference
Saturday 17 October 2020
Organiser:
Moderators:
Josep Figueras, Observatory and Luis Eugenico de Souza, Brazil
Speakers/panellists:
Richard Horton, UK
Christopher Murray, USA
Naomi Nathan, WHO
Closing Ceremony of the 16th World Congress on Public Health
Saturday 17 October 2020
Moderator: to be announced
Keynote speakers: to be announced
Awards ceremony: Best Poster Prize, Best Abstract Prize, Ferenc Bojan Award