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Pacific Health Summit

Overview

"The key challenge for us at this Summit&#8212as laid out implicitly by the electorates, patients, and stakeholders we represent—is to grapple in practical terms with how we best integrate these opportunities into our healthcare systems. We cannot stand on the sidelines… Healthcare needs to move from being our greatest modern cost to becoming our greatest modern asset."

- William Castell, Chairman, The Wellcome Trust; and Former CEO, GE Healthcare

NBR's Center for Health and Aging (CHA) serves as the Secretariat for the Pacific Health Summit. This annual, invitation-only event welcomes 250 top leaders from science, industry, and policy each June to discuss how to realize the dream of a healthier future. Every year the Pacific Health Summit focuses on a single theme designed to tackle a critical topic in global health. Past themes include maternal and newborn health (2010), multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (2009), malnutrition (2008), and pandemic influenza (2007). Vaccines will be the theme for the 2011 Summit.

The Pacific Health Summit is a place where leaders establish ground-breaking projects and initiatives. For example, in June 2007 Eli Lilly announced a commitment of $15 million to the "Lilly Not-for-Profit Partnership for Early Phase Drug Discovery." At the 2007 Summit the Director-General of the WHO also announced the establishment of a pre-pandemic flu vaccine stockpile. GSK immediately followed with an announcement that the company would donate 50 million doses of its pre-pandemic flu vaccine to the stockpile. Furthering the important work of the 2007 Summit, in 2009 sanofi aventis pledged 100 million doses of H5N1 flu vaccine to the WHO for developing countries.

To learn more about the Summit, visit www.pacifichealthsummit.org.

Contact

For more information, please contact:

Claire Topal
Director, Center of Health and Aging
health@nbr.org

2011 Summit Challenge

The 2011 Summit Challenge presents the conceptual foundation for the 2011 Pacific Health Summit, June 21-23, 2011. The Challenge is a collection of visionary thought pieces by global health leaders, including Tachi Yamada, Mark Walport, and Peter Neupert, and addresses this year’s Summit theme, “Vaccines: Harnessing Opportunity in the 21st Century.”

2010 Summit Report

The 6th annual Pacific Health Summit took place in London in June 2010, bringing together top global leaders to tackle how science, industry, and policy can improve health outcomes for mothers and newborns, with an emphasis on public-private partnerships and the role of industry. Over the course of two days, participants explored ways to strengthen collaborations and leverage the creativity of this gathering of "unlike minds." Read the 2010 Summit report, "Maternal and Newborn Health: The Crux of a Decent Humanity."

2010 Summit Schedule

As the Secretariat for the Pacific Health Summit, the Center for Health and Aging work closely with key partners to develop the agenda and content for the annual Summit. To view the official draft agenda for 2010 and calendar of related events, please visit the official Pacific Health Summit website.

2009 Summit Report

At the fifth annual Summit in June 2009, top leaders tackled how science, industry, and policy can accelerate the uptake of innovation to address the emerging global health threat of multidrug-resistant TB. Read the 2009 Summit report, “Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Overcoming Global Resistance.”

2009 Summit Challenge

The official "2009 Summit Challenge" presents the conceptual foundation for the 2009 Pacific Health Summit, held June 16-18. The Challenge is conveyed through brief essays on this year’s Summit theme, "MDR-TB: Overcoming Global Resistance," written by Michael Birt, Lee Hartwell, David Fleming, Peter Neupert, Mark Walport, and Tachi Yamada.

Summit Activities

The Summit is a year-round process. In addition to the June meeting, the Summit provides an ongoing forum for world leaders to improve health by working together to grapple with problems and solutions, share best practices, and forge effective collaborations. For more information on outputs and reports from past Summits, please visit the official Pacific Health Summit website.

Summit Sponsors

A multi-year dialogue as ambitious and important as the Pacific Health Summit could not be attempted, much less successful, without the participation and support of forward-thinking organizations and foundations, and selfless, generous individuals. For a list of Summit sponsors, please click on the image below.