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Pacific Health Summit

Overview

"The key challenge for us at this Summit—as laid out implicitly by the electorates, patients, and stakeholders we represent—is to grapple in practical terms with how we best integrate these opportunities into our healthcare systems. We cannot stand on the sidelines… Healthcare needs to move from being our greatest modern cost to becoming our greatest modern asset."

- William Castell, Chairman, The Wellcome Trust; and Former CEO, GE Healthcare

NBR's Center for Health and Aging (CHA) served as the Secretariat for the Pacific Health Summit. This annual, invitation-only event welcomed 250 top leaders from science, industry, and policy each June to discuss how to realize the dream of a healthier future. Every year the Pacific Health Summit focused on a single theme designed to tackle a critical topic in global health including affordability and technologies for health (2012), vaccines (2011), maternal and newborn health (2010), multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (2009), malnutrition (2008), pandemic influenza (2007), and early health (2005 & 2006).

The Pacific Health Summit is a place where leaders established ground-breaking projects and initiatives. For example, at the 2007 Summit the Director-General of the WHO also announced the establishment of a pre-pandemic flu vaccine stockpile. Furthering the important work of the 2007 Summit, in 2009 sanofi aventis pledged 100 million doses of H5N1 flu vaccine to the WHO for developing countries. Numerous other collaborations, including the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (2009), an agreement to distribute innovative medical devices between Laerdal & Powerfree Education and Technology (2010) and a pneumoccoccal vaccine collaboration between Merck & Co. and Serum Institute (2011) were futhered by or began at meetings held at the Summit.

To learn more about the Summit's impact, visit The Pacific Health Summit's website.

Contact

For more information about the Center for Health and Aging (CHA), please contact:

Sandra Ward
Director for Communications and Brand Development
CHA@nbr.org

2012 Pacific Health Summit Report

The 2012 Pacific Health Summit, held in London in June, addressed the theme “Game Changers: Affordability and Technologies for Health.” The report highlights key discussions and outcomes from the Summit, which brought together global leaders from science, industry, and policy to discuss how to realize the dream of a healthier future through affordable health technology innovations.

2012 Pacific Health Summit Challenge

The 2012 Pacific Health Summit Challenge presents the conceptual foundation for the 2012 Pacific Health Summit, held June 12-14. The Challenge is a collection of visionary thought pieces by global health leaders, including Trevor Mundel, Peter Piot, and Mark Walport, and addresses this year’s Summit theme, "Game Changers: Affordability and Technologies for Health."

2011 Pacific Health Summit Report

The 2011 Pacific Health Summit addressed the theme of “Vaccines: Harnessing Opportunity in the 21st Century.” The report highlights key discussions and the impact from the Summit, which brought together global leaders from science, industry, and policy to discuss how to realize the dream of a healthier future through accelerating innovation and global partnerships.

Universal Health Coverage and Immunization: Mutual Reinforcement for a Healthier World

This report highlights key themes and outcomes from an energetic discussion between key leaders in global health on the synergies between the universal health coverage movement and the global push for wider immunization coverage in Asia and around the globe. This conversation originally took place at a workshop of the 2011 Pacific Health Summit on vaccines.

2011 Summit Challenge

The 2011 Summit Challenge presents the conceptual foundation for the 2011 Pacific Health Summit, June 21-23, 2011. The Challenge is a collection of visionary thought pieces by global health leaders, including Tachi Yamada, Mark Walport, and Peter Neupert, and addresses this year’s Summit theme, “Vaccines: Harnessing Opportunity in the 21st Century.”

2010 Summit Report

The 6th annual Pacific Health Summit took place in London in June 2010, bringing together top global leaders to tackle how science, industry, and policy can improve health outcomes for mothers and newborns, with an emphasis on public-private partnerships and the role of industry. Over the course of two days, participants explored ways to strengthen collaborations and leverage the creativity of this gathering of "unlike minds." Read the 2010 Summit report, "Maternal and Newborn Health: The Crux of a Decent Humanity."

2010 Summit Schedule

As the Secretariat for the Pacific Health Summit, the Center for Health and Aging work closely with key partners to develop the agenda and content for the annual Summit. To view the official draft agenda for 2010 and calendar of related events, please visit the official Pacific Health Summit website.

2009 Summit Report

At the fifth annual Summit in June 2009, top leaders tackled how science, industry, and policy can accelerate the uptake of innovation to address the emerging global health threat of multidrug-resistant TB. Read the 2009 Summit report, “Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Overcoming Global Resistance.”

2009 Summit Challenge

The official "2009 Summit Challenge" presents the conceptual foundation for the 2009 Pacific Health Summit, held June 16-18. The Challenge is conveyed through brief essays on this year’s Summit theme, "MDR-TB: Overcoming Global Resistance," written by Michael Birt, Lee Hartwell, David Fleming, Peter Neupert, Mark Walport, and Tachi Yamada.

Summit Sponsors

A multi-year dialogue as ambitious and important as the Pacific Health Summit could not be attempted, much less successful, without the participation and support of forward-thinking organizations and foundations, and selfless, generous individuals. For a list of Summit sponsors, please click on the image below.