Innovating for health security (WHA79)
Date
21 May 2026
Time
18:00 - 21:00 CET
Location
Restaurant Vieux Bois
12, Avenue de la Paix
1202 Geneva
The global health landscape is facing converging pressures: resurgent infectious diseases, climate-driven outbreaks, rising AMR, zoonotic spillover, and increasingly interconnected populations.
As highlighted in the recent IFPMA supported health security analysis, protecting societies from these threats requires sustained investment in systems that prevent, detect, and respond to health challenges—not only during crises but continuously.
Innovation plays a central role across this continuum. From cutting-edge epidemiological tools and genomic surveillance to next generation vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and delivery systems, new advances are redefining what is possible for preparedness and response. Yet innovation only delivers impact when systems, regulatory pathways, and collaboration mechanisms and trust allow new solutions to reach people quickly and equitably. This event brings together thought leaders to explore how health innovation can strengthen global resilience, drawing on real-world lessons and forward-looking opportunities.
Address
Restaurant Vieux Bois,
Avenue de la Paix 12,
1202 Genève, Switzerland
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Speakers
Resources
Strengthening global health security: Perspectives from the innovative pharmaceutical industry
IFPMA publication “Strengthening global health security: Perspectives from the innovative pharmaceutical industry”presents the pharmaceutical industry as a central partner in global health security, and capturing the sector’s contributions, key challenges, and concrete policy recommendations.
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Health security for a safer future
This issue brief by Foreign Policy Analytics (FPA), produced with support from IFPMA, examines global health security, highlighting international coordination to strengthen preparedness is vital to protecting lives, economies, and societies from the next major health crisis.
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