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January 6, 2022

A multi-sector approach to accelerating the digital health transformation

Online: 1 February 2022, 2-5pm CET

The French EU Council Presidency has placed digital health at the heart of their Presidency priorities for the first half of 2022. Objectives include the promotion of the EU health data space which will facilitate the interoperability of data between health systems, improving the continuity of care and demanding compliance with ethical standards and personal data.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on humanity, but has helped to accelerate the digital health transformation that is much needed to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 in accordance with the European Digital Decade Agenda 2030. The digital health community is one of the most innovative in the health industry, which can drive socio-economic growth within the European Union and produce better health outcomes for patients and health systems.

Ahead of the EU Health Ministerial Summit on 2nd February, The G20 Health and Development Partnership in collaboration with one of its partners Dedalus and endorsed by The French EU Council Presidency is jointly organising a virtual event “Beyond COVID-19: a multi-sector approach to accelerating the digital health transformation” on 1st February.

The virtual summit is the first in the series that will bring together European Health Ministers, policymakers, Members of the European Parliament, Global Health NGOs, European businesses in the digital health and health systems space. Following this virtual summit, a second high-level event will take place in person in Paris on 31st May.

This event is in support of Europe’s Digital Decade 2030 goals and the French Presidency of the European Council’s priorities on digital transformation. It is an official event in collaboration with the French Presidency of the European Council.

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Dr Hayat Sindi

Dr Hayat Sindi

January 5, 2022

G20HDP congratulates our Global Ambassador Dr Hayat Sindi to have been nominated by the “Arab Power List 2021” as one of the most influential individuals shaping the Middle East.

The Arab Power List 2021

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G20HDP Welcomes Today’s Joint G20 Finance-Health Ministers Declaration

January 4, 2022

A letter by our Chairman Alan Donnelly, Convenor of The G20 Health and Development Partnership, to G20 Health and Finance Ministers and G20 Leader’s following the outcomes of the 3rd joint Ministerial Meeting in Rome on 29th October today and ahead of the G20 Leader’s summit this weekend.

 

Your Excellencies,

On behalf of the G20 Health and Development Partnership I want to express our thanks for the leadership of Italy this year, and in ensuring a concrete outcome from the Joint Finance and Health Ministers meeting today.

The most important strategic decision is the creation of the new G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force. The G20 HDP proposed this initiative three years ago, as we believed, even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that there was a direct link between the performance of the economy and the investment in healthcare systems including pandemic preparedness.

The Task Force must not become another talking shop. It must have the same impact on Health that the Financial Stability Board has had on financial resilience.

We welcome the deepening commitment to the WHO, which of course requires sustainable funding at a higher level.

The new architecture must establish, beyond the funding of the ACT-A next year, a new funding mechanism funded and replenished by Governments which can invest and intervene when the Task Force is alerted to a new global health challenge.

The Task Force must also promote a robust multilateral surveillance procedure that both monitors the emerging risks and the scale of the annual national and regional health investments.

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