P1 OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Organised by International Forum Gastein
The future development of health and health systems will be at the core of this year’s EHFG. We would like to build on last year’s topic of Health in an Age of Austerity by taking the discussion further and asking: “What can we learn from the current financial and political crisis and how can we react in a resilient and innovative way for better population health and more effective health systems?” Recent struggles with the impact of the crisis have shown us the urgent need to rethink current policies and approaches.
In the plenary sessions we will address the following questions:
Welcome address and official opening
Helmut Brand, President, International Forum Gastein
Introductory statement
Zsuzsanna Jakab, Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Introductory statement
Paola Testori Coggi, Director-General, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission
EU-Trio Presidency debate
Vytenis Andriukaitis, Minister of Health, Lithuania
Adonis Georgiades, Minister of Health, Greece
Fergal Lynch, Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Health, Ireland
Keynote: How to use innovation on the way to recovery
Uwe E Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA
Twitter round-up
Maggie Davies, Executive Director, HAPI
Paul Giepmans, Young Forum Gastein Scholar