CLOSING PLENARY
Until recently, the role of global capital flows and their impact on health was largely absent from public health debates. However, given that a significant share of the global food, beverage and tobacco industries are owned by institutional investors, it is arguably time for the public health community to step up and address issues around the responsibility of investors in relation to the commercial determinants of health. The Closing Plenary of 2018 will thus consider the role of the financial markets and health, and discuss if and how we can better align commercial and public health interests.
We will hear from a pioneer who has worked collaboratively with the financial sector to further tobacco free investment. And we will examine the trend for commercial organisations traditionally established in other sectors to move into the health market, and the implications of this for responsible practice. We will also look at sustainable, socially innovative business models that maximise social impact and whether this is one solution to responding to the social challenges that threaten Europe. Finally we will consider the role and actions of supranational organisations in this area, from the UN - following the recent High Level Meeting on NCDs - to the European Commission, and how we can better advocate for health to be considered first in policy design.
Conference Round-up & First Outcomes
CLEMENS-MARTIN AUER, President, EHFG
Input Speech
BRONWYN KING, Radiation Oncologist and Founder and CEO of Tobacco Free Portfolios
Panel Discussion
FILIPPO ADDARII, Founder and Co-Managing Director, PlusValue
ILONA KICKBUSCH, Director of Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
BRONWYN KING, Radiation Oncologist and Founder and CEO of Tobacco Free Portfolios
JAN KIMPEN, President, COCIR and Chief Medical Officer, Philips
JOHN RYAN, Director, Public health, country knowledge, crisis management, DG SANTE, European Commission
Hackathon Results and Prize Ceremony
Moderated by MARTIN MCKEE, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Newsroom Team
NATASHA AZZOPARDI MUSCAT, President, EUPHA
FLORIAN STIGLER, GP and public health researcher, Medical University of Graz/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Cartoonist
FLORIS OUDSHOORN, Comic House