SDG Bergen 2020: The Global Health Gap

Time and place: Feb. 7, 2020 9:00 AM–11:30 AM, University Aula, Bergen

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SDG 3 calls for healthy lives and wellbeing for all at all ages by 2030. To achieve this goal, we need to address the global health gap, namely the huge health inequities that persist between rich and poor people (both within and across countries) and inequitable access to essential health services and technologies. There is much optimism that biomedical innovations and emerging technologies, notably digital technologies, can be harnessed to close the health gap. At the same time, major gaps in knowledge, evidence and finance and asymmetries of power shape the potential for emerging technologies to benefit health equity. How can improved access to health care and emerging technologies contribute to the SDGs: better health, a healthy workforce, eradication of extreme poverty, improved economic productivity and reduced inequalities? Including Q&A.

Keynote:

  • Dr. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, the New School in New York, USA, and Director of the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health

Panellists:

  • Mr. Tore Lærdal, Lærdal Medical AS
  • Dr. Kristine Onarheim, University College London
  • Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Centre for Global Development, Washington DC and Imperial College London
  • Mr. Paul Fife, Director of the Department for Education and Global Health, Norad
  • Dr. Mahlet Kifle Habtemarian, Principal programme officer at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa

Moderator:

  • Dr. Katerini Storeng, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo

Organizer

University of Bergen

Published Jan. 27, 2020 4:09 PM - Last modified Apr. 3, 2020 4:12 PM