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:
- Summer May Finlay, Champion of the rights of indigenous people, Australia
- Stefan Buttigieg, Malta
- Others to be announced
Plenary 2 – The Earth: a strategy for survival
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Moderators: Caroline Costongs, Director EuroHealthNet
Speakers/Panellists:
- Desmond D'Sa, Coordinator of the environmental justice organisation South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), South Africa
- Others to be announced
Plenary 3 - Leading the way to a healthier world
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Moderators: Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, President EUPHA, and Claude Betts
Speakers/Panellists:
- Sandro Galea, Dean Robert A. Knox School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, United States
- Others to be announced
Plenary 4 – The Digital Information Revolution
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Organisers:
Moderators: James Chauvin, Canada, and Isabel de la Mata, European Commission
Speakers/Panellists: to be announced
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 to be announced
Speakers/Panellists:
- Patricio V. Marquez, The World Bank
- Usman Khan, Director European Patients' Forum
- Others to be announced
Plenary 6 - Revolutionalizing the public health workforce as agents of change
Friday 16 October 2020
Moderator: Kasia Czabanowska, ASPHER
Speakers/Panellists:
- Laura Magana, President and CEO Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), Mexico
- Philip Baga Adonga, President Association of Schools of Public Health in Africa (ASPHA), Ghana
- Others to be announced
Plenary 7 - Moving out of the silos
Friday 16 October 2020
Moderators: Michael Moore, Australia, and Roberta Siliquini, Italy
Speakers/Panellists:
- Walter Flores
- to be announced
Plenary 8 - Making a difference
Saturday 17 October 2020
Organiser:
Moderators: Laetitia Rispel, South Africa, and Carlo Signorelli, Italy
Speakers/Panellists: to be announced
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