Convening the global health community
Upcoming events
Trade for Health: Enhancing resilience, creating innovation, preserving access
Trade is a vital enabler of resilient health systems. This session will examine how the WTO can strengthen trade’s contribution to global health by keeping healthcare goods and enabling services open, predictable and less vulnerable to unnecessary restrictions.
Read more#AlwaysInnovating reception: Solutions for stronger, resilient health systems
This high-level networking event, co-hosted by IFPMA and Foreign Policy, gathers leaders across government, industry, and international organizations to talk about how pharmaceutical innovation supports pandemic preparedness and universal health coverage.
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Addressing the demographic challenge: Long lives as a fiscal opportunity
Join us for a closed-door discussion for a select group of finance ministry officials, IMF and World Bank staff and senior G20 voices, testing what a Global Coalition of Finance Ministers for Ageing would do and what role finance ministries and the IMF and World Bank themselves – should play in leading it.
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Past events
See allImmunizing across the life course: Supporting healthy ageing, NCD management, and system resilience (WHA79)
Co-organized by IFA, GAAPP, and IFPMA, this WHA79 official side event will explore how life-course immunization can strengthen PHC-led models designed to meet the needs of ageing populations and people living with NCDs.
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Innovating for health security (WHA79)
IFPMA hosted this side-event on the sidelines of WHA79 in May, bringing together thought leaders to explore how health innovation can strengthen global resilience, drawing on real-world lessons and forward-looking opportunities.
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Always Innovating: How the next generation of medicines and vaccines can deliver a healthier, stronger future (WHA79)
On the sidelines of WHA79 in May 2026, IFPMA hosted its flagship WHA event at the InterContinental, focused on the role of the pharmaceutical industry as a strategic sector to improve health outcomes, strengthen health systems, drive economic growth, and advance health security.
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