April 19th and 20th, 2018

Os edifícios históricos da Universidade foram classificados como Património Mundial pela UNESCO

em 2013

Berlim, outubro de 2009

M8 Alliance

The M8 Alliance is the collaborative network of world-wide academic medical centers,

universities and academies, composed of 25 members from 18 countries, whose main mission is

the improvement of global health (medicine, research and care). All members are committed to

the evolution of global health, working with policy makers and economists to develop

scientifically proven solutions to the health challenges of the world.

www.worldhealthsummit.org

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M8 Alliance

Members

Os edifícios históricos da Universidade foram classificados como Património Mundial pela UNESCO

em 2013

Portugal – Coimbra Health is admitted as a

member of M8 Alliance

Berlin, October 2015

The Portuguese application for the organization of the

World Health Summit Regional Meeting is approved.

Berlin, October 2016

Portugal represented by Coimbra Health, the consortium formed by the University of

Coimbra (UC) and the Coimbra Hospital and University Center (CHUC) took over the

presidency of the M8 Alliance in October 17, 2017.

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The M8 Alliance Declaration World Health Summit 2017

‘HEALTH IS A POLITICAL CHOICE’

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Commitment to Strong and Reliable Governance

Commitment to Ensure Global Health Security

Commitment to Healthy and Resilient Cities

Commitment to Responsible Approaches to Big Data

Commitment to Research, Innovation and Development

Commitment to Innovation and Health Systems Strengthening

in Africa

MAIN & REGIONAL MEETINGS

World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2018, Coimbra – Portugal will be devoted to

Global Health in African countries.

Portugal maintains close links, not only made up of centuries of history, but also

affective, cultural, linguistic, political, economic and diplomatic with the countries that

now constitute the CPLP - Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (Angola,

Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea Equatorial, Mozambique, São Tomé e

Príncipe and East Timor), and will take this unique opportunity of the World Health

Summit Regional Meeting to draw the world's attention to the terrible problems most

of these countries face in the context of public health.

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Angola

Brazil

Cabo Verde

Guinea Bissau

Equatorial Guinea

Mozambique

São Tomé and Príncipe

East Timor

Portugal

Expectations

2 Days

4 Keynote Sessions

20 Workshops

≈ 120 Speakers

≈ 600 Participants

Academia

Policy Makers

Private Sector

Civil Society Networking Events

Parallel Initiatives:

• Start-Up Track

• Young Physicians Leaders

• New Voices in Global Health

• EIT- Health Innovation Days

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4 Keynote Sessions

20 Workshops

Networking Events

KEYNOTE Managing Infections

diseases Governance for Health equity

Translating innovation into

healthcare

Biomedical Education

THURSDAY | APRIL 19

8:00 Welcome registration

9:00

Communicable Diseases and Non Communicable diseases

Circadian Biology and Personalized Medicine

Setting the basis for health care in armed conflict

context

Violence: a Global Health Problem - how to prepare

health professionals?

10:30 Coffee break

11:00

Is HIV Still a pandemic threat? Reducing Mother and

Child Mortality Accessibility to healthtech

and value creation Global Policies to Implement SDGs

12:30 Lunch |New Voices for Global Health

13:30 Opening Session

15:00 Coffee break

15:30

Infectious Diseases and Climate Change

Shaping urban environments for more equitable and healthier

places

Digital Medicine How to change the

curricula to include global health

17:30 The role of diplomacy in global health politics – Health Ministers of CPLP

19:00 Reception

KEYNOTE Managing Infections

diseases Governance for Health equity

Translating innovation into

healthcare

Biomedical Education

FRIDAY | APRIL 20

8:00 Welcome registration

9:00

Reverting the dissemination of malaria in low-income

countries Migrants and Health Innovation in Aging

Impact of ioT Technologies

in medical education

10:30 Coffee break

11:00

WHO Regional Office for Africa | United Nations Population Fund

12:30 Lunch break |Startup track

14:00 Clinical trials in African

countries

Access to medical care: inequalities in a global

world

Translational and sustainable Innovation

Training and empowerment of health

professionals in developing countries

15:30 Coffee break

16:30 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Antonio Guterres ONU

17:00 Closing Ceremony

18:30 Cocktail

Opening Ceremony

Closing Ceremony

DETLEV GANTEN

President, World Health Summit | Germany

JOÃO GABRIEL SILVA

Rector, University of Coimbra | Portugal

FERNANDO REGATEIRO

CEO, Hospital and University Center of Coimbra | Portugal

(* to be confirmed)

ANTÓNIO GUTERRES *

Secretary-General, United Nations

CARLOS MOEDAS

European Commissioner for Research, Science and

Innovation

ANTÓNIO COSTA

Portuguese Prime Minister | Portugal

ADALBERTO CAMPOS FERNANDES

Minister of Health | Portugal

MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA

President of the Portuguese Republic | Portugal

4 Keynote Sessions

(* to be confirmed)

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION *

| USA

MATSHIDISO MOETI REBECCA *

WHO Regional Director for Africa | Congo

HEALTH MINISTERS FROM CPLP

The role of diplomacy in global health politics

MONICA FERRO

Chief of the Geneva Office of United Nations

Population Fund | Switzerland

• Communicable Diseases and non-communicable diseases

• Lessons learned from HIV pandemic to reach the goals 90-90-90

• Climate changes and Infectious Diseases

• Reverting the dissemination of malaria and neglected tropical diseases

• Clinical trials in African countries

Preliminary Program

Managing Infections

diseases in low and middle

income countries

Managing Infections diseases

in low and middle income countries

(* to be confirmed)

MAGDA ROBALO Director |Communicable Diseases Cluster (CDS) Office WHO Regional Office for Africa | CONGO

FERNANDO DE ALMEIDA President | INSA – The National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge |PORTUGAL

FELIX ROSENBERG Director |Fórum Itaboraí Fiocruz |BRAZIL

KAMAL MANSINHO Diretor |Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Service Egas Moniz Hospital (West Lisbon Hospital Centre) |PORTUGAL

ALUISIO SEGURADO Professor and Researcher, University of S. Paulo, BRAZIL

ADELE BENZAKEN * Director |Department of STI, AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, Ministry of Health| BRAZIL

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION *

FILOMENO FORTES Professor and Researcher, University Agostinho Neto | ANGOLA

JOÃO PINTO Professor and Researcher, Portuguese Institute of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (IHMT) |PORTUGAL

PEDRO ALONSO Director |WHO Global Malaria Programme |SWITZERLAND

JAN VAN DAMMES The Global Fund for Malaria |SWITZERLAND

PETER PIOT * Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |UK |M8 Alliance

JAIME NINA Professor and Researcher, Portuguese Institute of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (IHMT) | PORTUGAL

EUSÉBIO MACETE Director | CISM – The Manhiça Health Research Centre | MOZAMBIQUE

MOISÉS FRANCISCO * Director | CISA – The Health Research Centre of Angola | ANGOLA

List of Speakers

• Reducing Mother and Child Mortality

• Shaping urban environments for more equitable and healthier places

• Access to medical care: inequalities in a global world

• Global Policies to Implement SDGs

• Migrants and Health

Preliminary Program

Governance for Health

equity in low and middle

income countries

(* to be confirmed)

FRANSCISCO SONGANE Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health | WHO Former Minister of Health of Mozambique | SWITZERLAND

NUNO MOTA PINTO Alternate Executive Director for Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Timor-Leste |World Bank | USA

PAULA SANTANA Professor and Researcher, University of Coimbra | PORTUGAL

CARLOS DORA * Coordinator of the Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health Department| WHO | SWITZERLAND

JO IVEY BOUFFORD President, International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) USA

PAULO FREITAS * Chairman of the Board, Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr PORTUGAL

STEFFEN NIELSEN Director of the Programme Cities Changing Diabetes Novo Nordisk, DENANMARK

LUCIANO SASO Vice-Rector for European University Networks | Sapienza University of Rome | ITALY | M8 Alliance

SANTINO SEVERONI * Coordinator of Public Health and Migration Programme WHO Regional Office for Europe | ITALY BOAVENTURA SOUSA SANTOS * Professor and Researcher, University of Coimbra | PORTUGAL

ILONA KICKBUSH Director, Global Health Centre | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies | SWITZERLAND | M8 Alliance

NÍSIA TRINDADE LIMA President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Fiocruz | BRAZIL

PAULO BUSS Former President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/FIOCRUZ | BRAZIL

JORGE SIMÕES Professor and Researcher, Portuguese Institute of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (IHMT)| PORTUGAL

BÁRBARA GOMES Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra | PORTUGAL

Governance for Health equity in low and

middle income countries

List of Speakers

• Circadian biology and personalized medicine

• Setting the basis for health care in armed conflict context

• Accessibility to healthtech and value creation

• Innovation in Ageing

• Translational and sustainable Innovation

• Digital Medicine

Opportunities and challenges in translating innovation

into healthcare

Preliminary Program

(* to be confirmed)

ÂNGELA RELÓGIO Professor and Researcher, Charité Medical University of Berlin |GERMANY

FRANCIS LEVI Professor and Researcher, University of Warwich | UK

GIANLUIGI MAZZOCCOLI Professor and Researcher, IRCCS (Institute for Research and Health Care) | ITALY

JOHN B. HOGENESCH Professor and Researcher, Cincinnati HMC | USA

NAZZARENO CAPITANIO Professor and Researcher, University of Foggia | ITALY

RENATA GOMES Head of Research and Innovation, Blind Veterans UK

CORONEL MICHAEL HEIMALL Director of Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre Medical Service Corps | USA

VICE ADMIRAL ALASDAIR WALKER OBE Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces British Armed Forces | UK

HENRIQUE MARTINS CEO, SPMS (Shared Services Ministry of Health) |PORTUGAL

JOÃO VASCONCELOS * Former State Secretary for Industry of the Portuguese Republic |PORTUGAL

CLÁUDIA CAVADAS Professor and Researcher, University of Coimbra | PORTUGAL

ANTÓNIO CUNHA * IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes | PORTUGAL

SALVADOR JOSÉ DE MELLO President, Health Cluster Portugal | PORTUGAL

MANUEL SOBRINHO SIMÕES Professor and Researcher, University of Porto | PORTUGAL

CARLOS MOEDAS * European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation European Commission | PORTUGAL

PAULO BARRADAS * CEO, Bluepharma | PORTUGAL

BEATRIZ SILVA LIMA * Chair of the Scientific Committee, IMI – Innovative Medicines Initiative| BELGIUM

List of Speakers

Opportunities and challenges in translating innovation into healthcare

Preliminary Program

• Violence: a Global Health Problem. How to prepare health professionals?

• New trends in Biomedical Simulation: impact of ioT Technologies in medical education

• Biomedical Education: how to change the curricula to include global health

• Training and empowerment of health professionals in developing countries

Biomedical Education for a changing world

(* to be confirmed)

DUARTE NUNO VIEIRA Director of Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra |PORTUGAL

MARIA DE BELÉM ROSEIRA Deputy, Portuguese Parliament | PORTUGAL

HELENE BOISJOLY Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal CANADA |M8 Alliance

FERNANDO REGATEIRO Chairman of the Board of Directors, Coimbra University Hospitals PORTUGAL | M8 Alliance

FILOMENO FORTES Professor and Researcher, University Agostinho Neto | ANGOLA

GUY BRETON * Rector, University of Montreal |CANADA

ANTOINE TESNIERE * Professor & Director of iLumens, University Paris Descartes FRANCE

PEDRO PINTO CEO, Body Interact | PORTUGAL

JOSÉ OTÁVIO COSTA AULER * Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of S. Paulo | BRAZIL | M8 Alliance

PAULO FERRINHO * Director, Portuguese Institute of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (IHMT) PORTUGAL

MANUEL ANTUNES Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra | PORTUGAL

List of Speakers

Biomedical Education for a changing world

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Inter-Ministry Group

Dispatch no. 5795/2017 by the Ministers for Health,

Foreign Affairs, Economics, Finance, Science and

Technology.

High Patronage of the President

of the Portuguese Republic

Institutional Support

WHS Regional Meeting Coimbra,

2018

Speakers from Universities, Research

Institutes or NGOs

Origin

EU

Switzerland

UK

Italy

Germany

USA

CANADA

BRAZIL

ANGOLA

MOZAMBIQUE

GUINE-BISSAU

UGANDA

Venue

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