G7 Health Ministers' Meeting Nagasaki Commemoration: Symposium on Accelerating Research, Development, Access and Delivery for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

G7 Health Ministers' Meeting, Nagasaki Commemoration:

Symposium on Accelerating Research, Development, Access, and Delivery for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Nagasaki University, the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), and Uniting to Combat NTDs will hold an international symposium on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on Friday, May 12, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. in Nagasaki, coinciding with the G7 Summit Health Ministers Meeting (May 13 and 14, 2023), which will be held in Nagasaki as part of the G7 Hiroshima Summit. The symposium will be held on Friday, May 12, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. in Nagasaki, coinciding with the G7 Summit Health Ministers' Meeting in Nagasaki (May 13 and 14, 2023).

NTDs are a group of 20 infectious and other diseases that affect more than 1.6 billion people yearly, many in poor communities, especially in low-income countries (LICs). Despite the great need for diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, and other medical technologies, they are constantly under-researched, under-treated, and underfunded. The priority is becoming even less, especially as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic takes precedence. To overcome this situation and to enable sufficient investment and strengthening of health care systems to control NTDs and thereby prepare for the next pandemic, we are holding this symposium in Nagasaki, the center of NTDs research in Japan, to gather stakeholders from around the world to share information and strengthen solidarity regarding NTD countermeasures, we have decided to hold this symposium, to coincide with the occasion of the G7 Summit Health Ministers Meeting in Nagasaki, to share information and strengthen solidarity on NTD countermeasures.

  • Organizers

Nagasaki University, Global Health Technology Fund (GHIT), Uniting to Combat NTDs

  • cooperation    

          DNDi Japan、Japan alliance on Global NTDs （JAGntd）、Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association（JPMA）、SDGs・Promsie・Japan（SPJ）、Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference

  • Supporting Organizations

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, JICA

  • Date and time

From 12:00-14:00 (JPN time), May 12, 2023

  • Speakers & Agenda

    Session1：

    • Global NTD Landscape and Needs, Progress on the Roadmap and New NTD Department Director’s vision on the way forward
      by Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization
    • Japan’s contribution in NTD, from Academia, Why Nagasaki?
      by Shigeru Kohno, President of Nagasaki University
    • Japan’s contribution in NTD, from Industry
      by Sachiko Nakagawa, Managing Director of Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA)

    Session2：

    • What is PDP and their role in fighting NTD
      by Luis Pizarro, DNDi Executive Director
    • From Funder’s perspective, why invest in NTDs? (Online)
      by Katey Einterz Owen, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Director, Vaccines Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    • Coordinating Access (video message)
      by John Reeder, Director, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and Director, the Research for Health Department at the World Health Organization

    Closing

    What kind of collaboration and coordination is required to accelerate R&D, A&D and leveraging pandemic preparedness by Peter Piot, Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Special Advisor on COVID-19 to the President of the European Commission

     

  • Venue

The GlobalView Nagasaki 

*Scheduled to be a hybrid event (webinar format: pre-registration is necessary. No registration fee)

Pre-registration is available here.

       ※The symposium may be used in the future in public relations activities and internal and external materials of Nagasaki University and the GHIT Fund,

　　　such as on television, in newspapers and in the organisers' PR magazines, and the entire symposium, including your portrait, may be shown to the general public.

　　　In such cases, the use of your portrait will be deemed to have been consented to by your entry (application).

 

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