EU Health Summit 2022: Towards an EU Health Union

15.11.2022
Flemish Parliament, Brussels

The EU Health Coalition is delighted to invite you to its 3rd EU Health Summit to map the future of the European Health Union.

The event will build on the stark lessons learned from COVID-19 and discuss how to go beyond the status-quo in health, seizing opportunities to make positive changes. It will ask what it takes to build a successful EU Health Union centered on people, innovation, and value-based care so that Europeans’ health is better protected and our health systems are performant and resilient.

The EU Health Summit will reflect on progress towards reaching the EU Health Coalition’s 2020 recommendations and look at how we can power the change towards a stronger Health Union.

Change always begins by empowering and partnering with people. We hope that you will join us on 15 November so that we can shape the future of health in Europe, together!

 

Registrations are closed. You can watch the event online here!

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Programme

09:00 - 09:50

Registration

09:50 - 10:00

Welcome and Introductory remarks

Nathalie Moll

Co-Chair, EU Health Coalition; Director General, EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and AssociationsEFPIA

Mary Lynne Van Poelgeest-Pomfret

Co-Chair, EU Health Coalition; President, WFIPP - World Federation of Incontinence and Pelvic Problems
10:00 - 11:00

Towards a European Health Union: how to make it a reality?

Video contribution from Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat

Director of the Division of Country Health Policies and Systems at WHO Regional Office for Europe

MEP Dolors Montserrat

European Parliament

Nathalie Moll

Co-Chair, EU Health Coalition; Director General, EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and AssociationsEFPIA

Michele Calabrò

Director, EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities Association

Mary Lynne Van Poelgeest-Pomfret

Co-Chair, EU Health Coalition; President, WFIPP - World Federation of Incontinence and Pelvic Problems
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:20

Accelerating the digital transformation of European health systems

The patient perspective: video contribution from Jenny Camaradou, UK/Greece EUPATI Patient Fellow, Health Tech Bid writer

Martin Dorazil

Deputy Head of Unit, Unit C.1 - Digital Health, DG SANTE

MEP Tomislav Sokol

MEP Tomislav Sokol

Annabel Seebohm

Secretary General, COCIR - European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry

MEP Cristian Silviu Bușoi

Member of the European Parliament

Ilona Kickbusch

Founder and Chair of the International Advisory Board, Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute Geneva; Co-chair, The Lancet Commission on Governing Health Futures

George Valiotis

Executive Director, EHMA – European Health Management Association
12:20 - 13:10

Boosting health research & innovation

The patient perspective: video contribution from Danielle Drachmann, EURORDIS Young Patient Advocate

Annagrazia Altavilla

Chair, TEDDY Network - Task-force in Europe for Drug Development for the Young; Espace Ethique PACA-Corse; Consultant, Council of Europe

Michael Linden

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Handl Therapeutics

Anton Ussi

Operations and Finance Director, EATRIS ERIC - European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine

Chantal Mathieu

Chair, EUDF - European Diabetes Forum; Senior Vice President, EASD - European Association for the Study of Diabetes e.V.; Professor of Medicine, KU Leuven; Chair of Endocrinology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg Leuven; Coord

MEP Dan Nica

Member of the European Parliament
13:10 - 14:20

Lunch

14:20 - 15:10

Improving access to health innovation and reducing inequalities

Orla Galvin

Executive Director, EFNA - European Federation of Neurological Associations

MEP Peter Vitanov

European Parliament

Andrzej Rys

Principal Scientific Advisor, DG SANTE, European Commission

Meni Styliadou

VP Distinguished Fellow, Health Science Institute, Takeda R&D; Founder & Co-Lead, H20 Enterprise

Rain Laane

CEO, Estonian Health Insurance Fund 

Ilaria Giannico

Secretary General, UEHP – European Association of Private Hospitals
15:10 - 16:00

Advancing health systems integration

The patient perspective: video contribution from Jacqui Browne, Ireland

Loukianos Gatzoulis

Policy Analyst - Economic and Policy Analysis, Unit C.2 - State of Health, European Semester, Health Technology Assessment, DG SANTE, European Commission

Bart De Myttenaere

Director of the study department, Solidaris

Niamh Lennox-Chhugani

CEO, IFIC – International Foundation for Integrated Care

Michele Calabrò

Director, EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities Association

Dorota Tomalak

Deputy Head of Unit, Secretariat-General of the European Committee of the Regions
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:20

Mapping the way forward for the EU Health Union

Nathalie Moll

Co-Chair, EU Health Coalition; Director General, EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and AssociationsEFPIA

Anca Toma

European Patients Forum

Jakub Dvořáček

Deputy Minister of Health of Czech Republic

Mauro Maré

Director, Center on Welfare, Luiss Business School

Ingrid Keller

Head of Unit, Unit B.2 - Health Security, DG SANTE, European Commission
17:20 - 19:00

Reception