World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2022 – Italy, Rome & Digital

We announce that the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2022, Italy, Rome will take place in Sapienza University of Rome on June 15-17, 2022.

Each year, the Regional Meeting integrates the program of the prestigious World Health Summit which takes place at the end of October in Berlin. The Regional Meeting is held in late spring, and is hosted by a member of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres, Universities and National Academies, that holds the World Health Summit International Presidency for that year. The past eight meetings were in Singapore (2013), Sao Paulo-Brazil (2014), Kyoto-Japan (2015), Geneva-Switzerland (2016), Montreal-Canada (2017) Coimbra-Portugal (2018)), Kish Island-Iran (2019), Kampala-Uganda (2021).

From October 2021 to October 2022 the International Presidency of the World Health Summit will be assigned to Professor Eugenio Gaudio of Sapienza University of Rome which is the only Italian institution member of the M8 Alliance.,
The World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2022, Italy, Rome, will enjoy contributions from 100 experts and the activities will develop over the following main topics:

• Vaccine Development and Policies: Challenges and Strategies
• Health Systems
• Metabolic Syndrome and Chronic Diseases
• New Technologies and personalized Therapies

The Program is structured in 16 expert sessions (four sessions/topic) where 2 chairpersons and 4/5 experts through their contributions will offer the starting point for a debate, to which ample space will be given. The sessions and the structure of the entire event are intended to offer points for discussion and debate that, in addition to scientists, involve stakeholders such as legislators / politicians, innovators, pharmaceutical industries, NGOs.
Plenary sessions are also planned which, in addition to the Opening Ceremony and the Closing Ceremony, include four Keynote Lectures and which will take place in the prestigious Aula Magna at Sapienza Rectorate.
The Regional Meeting 2022, Italy, Rome through an intense scientific program and an ambitious work schedule, completely fits the wake of the objectives of the World Health Summit, which are the improvement of global health and the development of scientific solutions to health challenges. Sapienza University of Rome will be the appropriate venue for scientific discussion and sharing of knowledge and technological advances in the field of human health. The intent is to point the spotlights for two days on global and public health: an even more meaningful debate after the long months of the COVID19 pandemic.