Speakers
The World Health Summit brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future. A full list of WHS 2023 speakers is available in our online program.
Speakers at the World Health Summit 2023 include:
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
Omar Abdi
Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Firass Abiad
Minister of Public Health
Lariba Zuweira Abudu
Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection
Ader Macar Aciek
Under-Secretary-General, Ministry of Health
Ayoade Alakija
Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator), World Health Organization (WHO)
Kevin Ali
CEO, Organon
Pascale Allotey
Director, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research SRH, World Health Organization (WHO)
Andrea Ammon
Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Patrick Amoth
Acting Director-General for Health, Ministry of Health
Inger Ashing
CEO, Save the Children International
Jarbas Barbosa
Regional Director for the Americas, World Health Organization (WHO)
Priya Basu
Executive Head, Pandemic Fund Secretariat, The World Bank
Hatice Beton
Executive Director, The G20 & G7 Health and Development Partnership
Catharina Boehme
Assistant Director-General External Relations and Governance, World Health Organization (WHO)
Qasem Buhaibeh
Minister of Public Health & Population
Christina Chilimba
Founder and Executive Director, All for Youth
Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda
Minister of Health
Awa Marie Coll-Seck
Minister of State to the President
Francesca Colombo
Head of Health Division, Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD)
Thomas B. Cueni
Director General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
Gabriela Cuevas Barrón
Co-Chair of the Steering Committee, UHC2030
Katie Dain
CEO, NCD Alliance
Alan Dangour
Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
Neil Datta
Executive Director, European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights
Roopa Dhatt
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Women in Global Health (WGH)
Pierre N'Gou Dimba
Minister of Health
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli
Global Head of Global Public Health R&D, Johnson & Johnson
Christian Drosten
Director, Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Victor J. Dzau
President, National Academy of Medicine
Omnia El Omrani
Youth Envoy to the President, 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27)
Christopher Elias
President, Global Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Osahon Enabulele
President, World Medical Association (WMA)
Ngozi Erondu-Manyonganise
Co-Chair, O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health
Rose Gana Fomban Leke
Director, Biotechnology Centre, Université de Yaoundé
Atul Gawande
Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Githinji Gitahi
Global CEO, AMREF Health Africa
Marelize Gorgens
Lead, Digital Health Flagship Program, The World Bank
Garth Graham
Head, YouTube Health
Pascalle Grotenhuis
Vice-Minister for International Cooperation
Anuradha Gupta
President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute
Nivedita Gupta
Head of Virology, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Shanelle Hall
Founder, The Yellow House
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Physician, Science Journalist and Founder, Healthy Planet - Healthy People Foundation
Ivor Horn
Chief Health Equity Officer & Director, Google
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems in the Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)
Amrillo Shodievich Inoyatov
Minister of Health
Jayasree K. Iyer
CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation
Wilhemina S. Jallah
Minister of Health
Kristy Kade
CEO, White Ribbon Alliance
Samuel-Roger Kamba
Minister of Health
Natalia Kanem
Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Jean Kaseya
Director-General, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Stefan Kaufmann
Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Vanessa Kerry
Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
Zakia Khattabi
Minister of Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal
Ilona Kickbusch
Founding Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Hans Kluge
Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization (WHO)
Frederik Kristensen
Deputy CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
Heyo Kroemer
CEO, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Stella Kyriakides
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Alain Labrique
Director, Department of Digital Health and Innovation, Science Division, World Health Organization (WHO)
Karl Lauterbach
Federal Minister of Health, Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
Steffi Lemke
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)
Michael Makanga
Executive Director, European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
Sunao Manabe
Executive Chairperson and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo
Precious Matsoso
Co-Chair, Pandemic Treaty Intergovernmental Negotiating Body
Isabel Mestres
Chief Executive Officer, City Cancer Challenge Foundation
Bernd Montag
CEO, Siemens Healthineers AG
Suerie Moon
Co-Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Jorge Moreira da Silva
Under-Secretary-General, United Nations and Executive Director, UNOPS
María Neira
Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
Sania Nishtar
CEO, Heartfile
John Nkengasong
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy
Eleanor Nwadinobi
President, Medical Women’s International Association
Kevin Outterson
Founder & Executive Director, CARB-X
Loyce Pace
Assistant Secretary for Global Public Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Joy Phumaphi
Co-Chair, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)
Sierk Poetting
Chief Operating Officer, BioNTech
Bharati Pravin Pawar
Minister of State of Health & Family Welfare
Naveen Rao
Senior Vice President, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation
Aurélien Rousseau
Minister of Health and Prevention
Catherine Russell
Executive Director, UNICEF
Michael Ryan
Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)
Smitha Sadasivan
Civil Society Representative for the Global South on the UHC2030 Steering Committee
Suvanand Sahu
Deputy Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership
Bjørg Sandkjær
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao
Managing Director Resource Mobilization, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovative Finance, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Lars Schaade
President, Robert Koch Institute
Orazio Schillaci
Minister of Health
Calvin W. Schmidt
Sr. Vice President and World Wide Leader, Government Affairs and Policy, Johnson & Johnson
Svenja Schulze
Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Christine Stegling
Deputy Executive Director, Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch, UNAIDS
Elhadj As Sy
Chair of the Board, Kofi Annan Foundation
Keizo Takemi
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Theresa Tam
Chief Public Health Officer
Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu
Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
Juan Pablo Uribe
Global Director for Health, Nutrition & Population and the Global Financing Facility, The World Bank
Justin Vaïsse
Director General, Paris Peace Forum
Monique Vledder
Head, Global Health, Nutrition and Population Department, The World Bank
Christian Walzer
Executive Director Health, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Rhoda Wanyenze
Dean, Makerere University School of Public Health
Lothar H. Wieler
Chair, Digital Global Public Health, Hasso Plattner Institute
Miranda Wolpert
Director of Mental Health, Wellcome Trust
Dorothy Yeboah-Manu
Director, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana