Organised by the Global Health Centre at the Geneva Health Forum as part of the World Health Summit Geneva meetings.
After the agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals, countries will need to adopt a holistic and ambitious approach towards their implementation, if there is to be real progress for health. The most obvious challenge is identifying and committing adequate financial resources. Yet, beyond resources, three other important issues will need to be addressed: global knowledge sharing; adequate monitoring and ensuring accountability; and facilitating innovation. This symposium aims to discuss how think tanks and academic institutions can be critical catalysts in addressing these challenges. It will explore, among others, the following issues; how think tanks can help generate, translate, and disseminate knowledge; how to ensure that knowledge is treated as a global public good; what responsibility do think tanks have in accelerating the SDG implementation process with a focus on the political and policy dimensions; and how think tanks can stimulate innovation in global and national healthcare systems by evaluating new models and technologies and by promoting ideas and solutions that will help address the innovation gap for SDGs.
The event is moderated by PROF ILONA KICKBUSCH, Director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute.
The panelists are:
PROF YASUSHI KATSUMA, Dean, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University; Global Health and Human Security Program, Japan Center for International Exchange
PROF FRANCIS OMASWA, Executive Director, African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation, Uganda
DR SHARMILA MHATRE, Program Leader, Maternal and Child Health, International Development Research Centre
DR FRANK PEGA, Consultant, Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health; Family, Women's and Children's Health, World Health Organization
DR JOHANNA HANEFELD, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Systems; Head, Anthropology, Politics and Policy Group, Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine