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The World Health Assembly (WHA) is an annual gathering of Ministers of Health, health leaders and delegations from all 193 United Nations Member States. In addition to official WHA plenary and committee meetings, there are also many events held on the sidelines of WHA.

World Health Assembly

Dr&nbsp;Laura Scholes (Australian Catholic University), Dr&nbsp;Nerida Spina (Queensland University of Technology), and Professor Barbara Comber (University of South Australia) will share their research titled &lsquo;<a href="https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3685">Disrupting the &lsquo;boys don&rsquo;t read&rsquo; discourse&rsquo;: Primary school boys who love reading fiction</a>&rsquo;.
Their research disrupts dominant discourses around boys reading and reports on a study examining boys reading interests and preferences.&nbsp; International literacy Centre Director Professor&nbsp;<a href="https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=PJGMO52">Gemma Moss</a>&nbsp;will act as discussant.

Registration Required

Institute of Education, University College of London

English

Disrupting the ‘boys don’t read’ discourse: primary school boys who love fiction

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Institute of Human Nutrition (IHN) Seminar Series, hosted by Sabrina Diano, Ph.D., Director, IHN, presents its seventh installment taking place on Thursday, May 26th, at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. This virtual presentation will feature Susan Fried, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Translational Adipose Biology and Obesity in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who will be speaking on the following topic: "Mechanisms linking lower body fat distribution to metabolic health" We hope that you will be able to join us!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location: Zoom (Link) Meeting ID: 927 8618 7293 One tap mobile +16465588656,,92786187293# US (New York) +13126266799,,92786187293# US (Chicago)&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: cw3264@cumc.columbia.edu&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition

Food Access &amp; Security

Global Health Research &amp; Development

Health Systems &amp; Universal Health Coverage

IHN Seminar Series

IHN Seminar Series - Linda Fried, PhD

Oil spills arise from several different sources ranging from small to large operational and non-operational spills and can occur on land or water which have serious impacts on the environment, economy and human health if not managed properly. Regulations and techniques have continued to be developed at both national and international levels to improve oil spill prevention and mitigation, and provide structure to oil spill response, especially in areas with environmentally sensitive components. However, implementation of these international and national legislations as well as availability and access to technologies to ensure preparedness and response to oil spill in emergencies have continued to be challenging, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UN Environment Programme and partners present this webinar series which focuses on strengthening national oil spill preparedness and response especially in environmentally sensitive areas. Each topic in this series will be a 90-minute webinar targeted at policymakers, regulators, civil society, academia, industry and the general public. They will include live Q &amp; A sessions with environmental experts involved in the oil and gas industry.
1.&nbsp; Webinar on implementing International conventions to strengthen national oil spill contingency planning and risk reduction on Feb 24, 2022
2.&nbsp; Webinar on environmentally sensitivity mapping for oil spill preparedness and response on 24 May, 2022
3. Webinar on Oil spill response methods and strategies in environmentally sensitive areas on 22 September, 2022
Participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the webinar and short assessment!

UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Ocean Conservation

Land Conservation

Global Webinar Series: Strengthening National Oil Spill Preparedness and Response in Environmentally Sensitive Areas

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Corrosion is a dangerous and extremely costly problem with serious, wide-ranging implications. Some of the effects of corrosion include a <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">serious deterioration of natural and historic monuments, increasing the risk of catastrophic equipment failures.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recent examples include the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which occurred due to corrosion and was considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Corrosion was also a leading factor behind the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, in 2018, which cost the lives of 43 people. Without effective solutions, corrosion issues remain an unsustainable threat to the planet and lead to the consumption of natural resources at large scale. There is a timely and critical need to find new solutions to tackle the vast problem of corrosion.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speakers and detailed programme of the session will be confirmed soon.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This event is a part of <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Festival of Debate 2022<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which runs from 19 April - 31 May. For full listings please visit <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://festivalofdebate.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://festivalofdebate.com</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you tweet about the event, please use the Grantham Centre handle @granthamcsf. For more upcoming free Grantham Centre sustainability events, please visit <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/festival-of-debate-2022/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our website</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.

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The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures

Sustainable Cities &amp; Communities

Corrosion: The $2.5 Trillion Dollar Problem

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE SUMMIT WILL CONVENE WORLD LEADERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH IN THE HEART OF GLOBAL HEALTH DIPLOMACY, JUST AHEAD OF THE 75TH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now in its 7th edition, the World Heart Summit will take place on 21-22 May 2022, just two days ahead of the World Health Assembly, under the timely and universal theme of Cardiovascular Health for Everyone.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delegates to this exclusive, invitation-only event will engage with policymakers, diplomats, researchers, private sector partners and health advocates, forging ties with leaders and innovators in the global cardiovascular community with the goal of strengthening the global response to cardiovascular disease to help people live longer, healthier lives.
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In-Person

World Heart Federation

WORLD HEART SUMMIT 2022

The World Health Organization will organize the 3rd edition in Geneva of the &ldquo;Walk the Talk: Health For All Challenge&rdquo; on Sunday 22 May, on the morning of the World Health Assembly.
This in-person event will invite participants to run or walk over two routes: 3 km and 4.2 km. People of all ages and abilities will start at Place des Nations from 8.30am.
People around the world are invited to take part in the event by tracking their performances through a dedicated app. By registering, participants will receive a login to take part-in anywhere in the world. More information is coming soon.
For more information, contact walkthetalk@who.int

World Health Organization (WHO)

French

Global Walk the Talk

The event is going to focus on global food security and deliberate upon solutions to counter the widespread malnutrition across the globe.

Hybrid

International Rescue Committee and World Vision International

Tackling the Crisis of Acute Malnutrition: Improving Treatment Coverage

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a crisis occurs, pregnant women, children and newborns face the most adverse effects. Any disruption to essential and routine health and nutrition services, like family planning, immunisation and maternal health care disproportionately impacts the health outcomes of women and children, especially those most impacted by poverty, inequalities and discrimination.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that sustaining essential health services during emergencies is crucial and must be prioritised to mitigate negative health impacts and to avoid preventable maternal, child and infant deaths. The WHO Pulse Surveys, tracking the continuity of essential health services throughout the pandemic, found 92% of respondent countries were still experiencing disruptions to at least one essential health service by the end of 2021.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the peak of the pandemic in 2020, widespread disruptions in access to antenatal care, immunisation and family planning were caused by the diversion of health staff to the frontlines of COVID-19 response, closure of community-based outreach services and supply chain interruptions leading to poor infection, prevention and control. Widespread and ever-changing lockdown mandates also discouraged demand for these services due to the fear of catching the virus. Since 2020, there have been fewer well-child visits, fewer deliveries with skilled birth attendants at a health facility and estimates from WHO and UNICEF show that routine immunisation coverage has dropped significantly over the past two years.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In May, global health leaders, donors, decision makers and partner governments will come together at the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, in a world still suffering from the tremendous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Firmly on the agenda is public health emergencies prevention, preparedness and response, as the WHO and its Member States work to strengthen our collective ability to support countries against future health threats. At a time when economies are faltering and resources for health are scarce, it is critical that global health institutions, financing mechanisms and national governments work in a more aligned manner to pool resources and build strong primary health care systems that can stand up to the challenges of future pandemics.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us, as we facilitate a discussion with maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) partners to explore how to better support the continuity of essential health services in emergencies. We will reflect on lessons learned from the pandemic and highlight key interventions and policies needed to place the health needs of women and children at the heart of discussions around health emergency preparedness and response.

Save The Children

Maternal, Newborn &amp; Child Health

Protecting essential health services in emergencies

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we rapidly approach the 2025 target date for the <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241513487"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHO Global action plan on dementia,</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we are bringing together key stakeholders from across the world to: look at progress, identify barriers, highlight paths forward and to see how the global dementia community can galvanise and accelerate towards achieving the key targets, especially around the development, deployment and monitoring of national dementia plans.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us for what will be a highly engaging and interactive session, with your chance to ask questions, share advice and experience, and tackle the big questions around dementia as a public health priority, particularly in the context of awareness, diagnosis, treatment, care support and research.
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<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.alzint.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alzheimer's Disease International </a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(ADI) CEO Paola Barbarino will present headlines from our new report From Plan to Impact V and host an expert panel looking at government and dementia community progress in the key action areas of the global plan. In particular, we will review national dementia plan updates, with a chance to see and ask how your country is performing.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The global pandemic has disrupted health, care and policy responses to dementia. As the 2025 deadline for the Global action plan approaches, we want to discuss solutions and recommendations, share advice and best practice, and above all, find ways to ensure that every country and government is able to deliver against their 2017 commitment for a strategic national dementia response.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alternative ways to join<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We will also be hosting this event as an online Zoom session. If you are unable to join us in person in Geneva, please join us online for this vital update. You can find more information and register <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wha-side-event-from-plan-to-impact-report-launch-virtual-tickets-319521917657"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.

Alzheimer's Disease International

WHA Side Event: From Plan to Impact report launch 

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ministers of Health from several countries yet to introduce the PCV, and others in various stages of national scale-up, will come together to share their views on the challenges and opportunities for PCV scale-up in the context of the achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 on Good Health and Well-Being.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ministers will be joined by experts from some of the leading global health, development agencies and donors who will discuss the costs and benefits of PCV introduction and explore solutions to barriers to introduction and scale-up.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For countries losing large numbers of children to pneumonia each year, reaching high coverage with the PCV is an effective child survival strategy with the capacity to prevent more than 2 million child deaths by 2030 and accelerate the achievement of the SDG on child survival.This will be the first time since the Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia in January 2020 that Ministers of Health have come together to reflect on their commitment to reduce child pneumonia deaths, including by increasing coverage of the PCV.This is an in-person only event.

Every Breath Counts

Protecting all children with the PCV: A Powerful Lifesaving Tool

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Devex will host a&nbsp;one-day, hybrid event (yes, we&rsquo;ll have an in-person event) in Geneva, Switzerland on May 25, 2022, accompanied by an online broadcast&nbsp;to bring you exclusive interviews, expert analysis, and insider coverage of the week&rsquo;s most important conversations.
The past two years have proven that the world needs to be more prepared for the next pandemic, even as the response to COVID-19 has bolstered preparedness through the birth of new initiatives, interest in the creation of new institutions, and debate on how to change what has long been the status quo. This year governments will convene at the 75th World Health Assembly to discuss details surrounding new pandemic preparedness instruments, while the matter of ending the current pandemic remains high on the agenda.
The exclusive, in person portion of the event will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland. The virtual program will include the livestream of the in-person portion and two additional hours of programming. We&rsquo;ll give you a front row seat to the major decision points at the 75th World Health Assembly and an opportunity to&nbsp;learn how current and future initiatives can protect the world from global health threats.
Guests joining us in person are also invited to attend a cocktail hour following the main programming, with opportunities to connect with other leaders in global health from around the globe.
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Devex

DEVEX @ WHA 75

This informal side-event to the World Health Assembly aims to explore how national healthcare systems can be strengthened to better support PLWRD and help achieve existing international commitments. Participants will discuss how networking experts, centers of expertise, and patient organizations can help foster national and global &ldquo;health systems strengthening&rdquo;.
The event will present proposals for strengthening healthcare systems for PLWRD, with an in-depth look at the creation of a Global Rare Diseases Network. The event will start by sharing an operational description of rare diseases, followed by presenting and discussing five proposals on global networking to strengthen health systems. Finally, a panel of experts will detail, from different perspectives, the added-value of networking care globally, to establish a bottom-up approach in strengthening healthcare systems for rare diseases.

Rare Diseases International

Networking Experts, Centres of Expertise and Patient Organizations to Strengthen Health Systems for Rare Diseases 

As Federal Reserve chair from 2006 to 2014, Ben Bernanke helped steer the economy through the turmoil of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession. Now a distinguished fellow in residence at the Hutchins Center at Brookings, Bernanke explains the evolution of monetary policy over the past 70 years and speculates on its future in a new book, &ldquo;<a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324020462">21st&nbsp;Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19.&rdquo;</a>
On May 23, Bernanke will talk about how and why the Fed&rsquo;s monetary policy has changed and the challenges that it faces today and may face in the future. After his comments, David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center, will interview him.

The Brookings Institution

Ben Bernanke: The Fed from the great inflation to COVID-19

After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is flagging support for many of the public health interventions designed to help control the virus. The Biden Administration has struggled to secure additional funding for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests. Most states and municipalities have rolled back their mask mandates, as well as testing and case reporting initiatives.
How do we navigate this coming phase of the pandemic? Who bears the cost of decisions to remove mask mandates and vaccine requirements? What is the role of the individual and what is the responsibility of public health and medical leadership in the coming years? What are we accepting when we call this period &ldquo;the new/next normal&rdquo;?

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Considering the Needs of the Vulnerable in the Next Stage of the Pandemic

We invite you to SAVE THE DATE for a Global Surgery Foundation side-event at the margins of the 75th World Health Assembly entitled
Strengthening Health Systems through&nbsp;upscaling Surgical Care Overcoming the final hurdle:&nbsp;Sustainable Financing
The event will bring together high-level leaders from member states, United Nations, academia, civil society, and industry in a discussion panel with a subsequent networking forum.

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