World Economic Forum 2024: Focus on Global Health and Disease Prevention

2024-01-15 21:25:30

This week the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum or WEF is taking place in Davos, Switzerland, which will take place between January 15 and 19, 2024. Some of the world’s most important economic and political leaders meet there, as well as world-class organizations.

On the agenda of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, which this 2024 is called ‘A long-term strategy for climate, nature and energy’, several important executives of the World Health Organization and other personalities, among them: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO; Shyam Bishen, Head, Center for Health and Healthcare; Roy Jacobs, President and CEO, Royal Philips; Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice President, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd; Nisia Trindade Lima, Minister of Health of Brazil; and Michel Demaré, chairman of the board of directors of AstraZeneca Plc, will talk regarding the importance of preventing a global pandemic in the coming years.

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In 2018, the World Health Organization coined the term ‘disease

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On Wednesday, January 17, the debate ‘Preparing for disease the description of the debate “disease

Although in recent days, the term ‘disease an unknown pathogen, which was capable of triggering an ‘international epidemic’.

An article published in the media ‘The Economist’ explains that the World Health Organization uses the expression ‘disease risks that an emerging epidemic does not become a new global pandemic, as happened with Covid-19, in 2020.

In addition, on the World Health Organization website, the list of some diseases, viruses or pathogens that currently exist and if not controlled and studied correctly are capable of causing future outbreaks and global pandemics is mentioned.

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Similarly, the WHO mentions that ‘disease flexible enough to be valid in the face of still unknown epidemics.

List of priority diseases that require more research, according to the WHO

Although the intervention of the representatives of the World Health Organization, at the World Economic Forum, will mainly deal with ‘disease :

Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, has noted that the term is used to highlight the importance: “To respond quickly and effectively to epidemics and pandemics, it is essential to focus on the pathogens and families of priority viruses on which to investigate and obtain countermeasures.

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