Health equity is a key element of the sustainable development agenda and essential for countries to move towards universal health coverage. Over the past decade, demographic, health, and socio-economic changes, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have widened disparities between different groups, with the most marginalized groups, such as people with disabilities, facing the worst health disparities. I have experienced it.
In this important session, global health stakeholders will take concrete actions to make health systems more inclusive of people with disabilities and promote health equity to achieve health for all. I’ll consider it.
The objectives of this session are:
Deepen your understanding of why disability inclusion is essential to advancing health equity by 2030 and beyond. We will share concrete solutions that ministries of health can apply to close the health equity gaps experienced by people with disabilities. A movement towards inclusive health that mobilizes greater commitment from the global health community.
Speakers include:
Dr. Jerome Salomon (Assistant Director General, Universal Health Coverage, Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization) Mr. Ismail Rumatira (Deputy Director General, Ministry of Health, Tanzania) Dr. R. Vensha Sitohan (Productivity and Elderly Health) (Director) Indonesian Ministry of Health) Ms. Maria Jose Plaza (former Ecuadorian parliament member) Ms. Haben Girma (disability rights advocate, the first deaf-blind graduate of Harvard Law School in the United States) Ms. Helen Anulika Beioku Araze (Executive Director of the Deaf Women’s Voice Initiative, Nigeria) Jarrod Klein (Deputy Executive Director, International Union of Persons with Disabilities, Switzerland) Rachel Feldkamp (Health Messenger, Special Olympics, Suriname)
This hybrid event will be held on October 13, 2024 from 14:00 to 15:30 CET.
International Sign Language will be provided and subtitles will be available through the live stream.
