Special Meeting 2024: Bridging the Health Gap

Since 1990, global efforts have successfully halved child mortality. Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, however, has been insufficient, with climate change and preventable diseases jeopardizing decades of advancement and millions of lives.


How can we strengthen the global health architecture to eradicate disease and make essential health innovations accessible to all?


This is the full audio from a session at the Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development in Riyadh on 28 April, 2024. Watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/events/special-meeting-on-global-collaboration-growth-and-energy-for-development-2024/sessions/redefining-the-global-health-agenda/
Speakers:

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)


Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister, Pakistan


Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC News


​Fahad bin Abdurrahman Al-Jalajel​, Minister of Health, Saudi Arabia


Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


Anita Zaidi, President, Gender Equality, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


Abdullah Al Rabeeah, Supervisor General, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre


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