FIND High-Level Forum on Diagnostic Testing

Update: You can watch the recording of the discussion here.

This high-level forum will lead up to the Global Health Summit and 74th World Health Assembly. It will showcase the release of FIND’s future strategy, while discussing the diagnostic lessons learned from COVID-19, how we can be better prepared to prevent future pandemics, and why access to testing is fundamental to achieving the global goal of universal health coverage (UHC).

Keynotes Speeches will be delivered by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, and Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global Fund. 

Jayasree K. Iyer will serve as part of an expert panel to discuss how the diagnostics industry can and must engage as part of a sustainable health system for both pandemic preparedness and to fulfill UHC goals.

Agenda:

OPENING REMARKS 

• Dr Sergio Carmona – Acting CEO & Chief Medical Officer, FIND 

KEYNOTE SPEECHES 

• Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – Director-General, World Health Organization 

• Peter Sands – Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

PANEL DISCUSSION 

• Peter Ngo’la Owiti – Executive Director, Wote Youth Development Projects, Community

• Representative, ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council 

• Jayasree K. Iyer – Executive Director, Access to Medicine Foundation 

• Dr Sara Cerdas – Member of the European Parliament, Portugal 

• Hayat Sindi – Chief Advisor, Islamic Development Bank 

Please click here to register for the event.