How Ending Malaria Transforms the World?

When:
April 25, 2018 @ 16:00 – April 25, 2018 @ 18:30
Where:
Place des Nations
Place des Nations
in Geneva 1202
Contact:
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WORLD MALARIA DAY:
How Ending Malaria Transforms the World?

Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 16:00 Place de Nations, 17:00 - 18:30
Auditorium Ivan Pictet | Maison de la paix, Geneva

After a consistent decline over decades, the rate of malaria infections is on the rise again, threatening the hard-fought progress globally. Ending malaria is critical to achieving not only SDG target 3.3, but also other goals, including SDGs 1 Zero Hunger, 2 Less Poverty, 5 Gender Equality and 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth.

The political will to continue investing in public health needs to be sustained. This panel discussion, held to mark the 10th World Malaria Day, will explore the challenges and ways forward in reaching the 2030 SDG Goal of ending the epidemic.

 

Programme:

16:00 Ceremony Place de Nations Geneva

17:00-17:15 Welcome remarks, Maison de la Paix

  • Michaela Told, Deputy and Executive Director, Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute
  • Christian Lengeler, President, the Swiss Malaria Group
  • Thomas Gass, Ambassador and Vice-Director, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

17:15-17:30 Keynote address

  • Awa Coll-Seck, Minister of State, Senegal; Board Member, RBM Partnership to End Malaria

17:30-18:25 Panel discussion

  • Kesete Admasu, CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria; former Minister of Health of Ethiopia
  • Marina Carobbio Guscetti, Vice-President of the Swiss National Council
  • Awa Coll-Seck, Minister of State, Senegal; Board Member, RBM Partnership to End Malaria
  • Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, Ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  • Thomas Gass, Ambassador and Vice-Director Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
  • Minghui Ren, Assistant Director General for Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization

Moderator:
Christian Lengeler, President, Swiss Malaria Group

18:25-18:30 Closing

  • Christian Lengeler, President, Swiss Malaria Group

The event is preceded by a World Malaria Day Ceremony at Place des Nations from 16:00 to 16:30 and is followed by a reception at the Maison de la paix at 18:30.

You can download the programme here.

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