
19 May 2025 | 08:30 – 10:00 hs | Warwick Hotel, Geneva
Global public health needs economic justice – now!
19 May 2025 | 08:30–10:00 | Warwick Hotel, Geneva
At the WHA78, WHO member states negotiations are happening in the context of drastic budget cuts that are already having immense consequences on people’s lives around the world. Governments are called upon to increase public health budgets – but they are faced with ever rising debt service payments and illicit financial flows that drain public resources away from vital public services.
To get the needed reforms to the global financial system off the ground, we need the global health community to add their voices to demands for economic justice.
This event, hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) partners, will bring together experts from diverse backgrounds to illustrate the flaws in the global financial architecture, their impact on health financing, and how they can be transformed to support equity, sustainability and access to health for all.
In the panel:
Join us for this important conversation at a pivotal moment in global health and finance reforms.
Read our handout for WHA78 delegates about tackling tax abuse and illicit financial flows, and addressing unsustainable debt, to increase funding for health systems.
Register for this side event here (G2H2 website)