Events under 'Geneva Health Forum'

Climate change is already reshaping the world’s health landscape. This session brings together leading actors to move beyond discussion and into action, showcasing concrete solutions from the field and highlighting urgent challenges that demand collective response. As the World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva, this session aims to build momentum by connecting communities of practice and sparking collaboration.

Through storytelling, real-world cases, and a commitment tree to foster ongoing partnerships, we invite you to help scale what works and co-create the future of climate-resilient health systems.

Migration is often framed as a challenge—but it’s also a powerful driver of diversity, innovation, and resilience. This session calls on stakeholders to shift the narrative, recognize migrants as agents of their own health, and co-create inclusive solutions. In the context of the World Health Assembly, we’ll elevate lived experiences, foster dialogue, and seed new collaborations. Through participatory roundtables, we’ll tackle shared challenges and explore practical responses in mental health, research, and community leadership. Together, we can build momentum for dignity-based health systems that leave no one behind.

Climate change is not just an environmental crisis; it is a public health emergency. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting disease patterns are placing unprecedented stress on health systems and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Strengthening adaptation and resilience is now essential to safeguarding human well-being.

This symposium brings together global experts to advance international cooperation on climate health, moving beyond crisis response toward proactive resilience-building. Key themes include climate health ethics, planetary health, and the interconnected well-being of human populations and the planet itself. Through discussions balancing scientific rigor with real-world implementation, the event will explore advanced meteorology modeling, effective early warning systems, health co-benefits of climate action, and strategies from emerging AI-driven health surveillance to community-based adaptation—ensuring no population is left behind. By fostering collaboration across organizations and regions, the symposium will provide a platform to integrate health into climate adaptation policies, offering tools to measure health outcomes in local contexts and achieve shared goals for a resilient future.

The Geneva Digital Health Day (GDHD) is a global gathering of healthcare professionals, innovators, policymakers, and researchers dedicated to advancing digital health. Held during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, GDHD serves as a platform to explore emerging trends, key challenges, and innovative solutions, fostering collaboration to drive the future of digital health worldwide.

Community health is a cornerstone of universal health coverage, health equity, and sustainable healthcare systems. As the world grapples with aging populations, urbanization, and digital transformation, new approaches are needed to integrate medical and elderly care, align healthcare and disease prevention, and modernize community health systems.
This session brings together health policy experts, practitioners, and international partners to explore China’s evolving community health strategies, with a focus on Minhang District. Since the 1980s, Minhang has pioneered innovative models—such as cooperative medical services, a three-tier prevention and care system, and the barefoot doctor model—which have since evolved into key components of China’s healthcare landscape. Today, these models underpin universal health insurance, family doctor services, and digitally enabled primary care.

Representatives from Minhang’s government, hospitals, public health institutions, and universities, alongside colleagues from Fudan University, the Shanghai Institute of Major Infectious Diseases and Biosafety, the University of Geneva, and international organizations, will share experiences and examine pathways for integrating care, prevention, and digital health in community settings.

This session aims to foster international collaboration and contribute to the advancement of resilient and inclusive community health systems globally.

As part of World Health Assembly (WHA) Week, a session will be dedicated to presenting the public and global health training and education opportunities in Switzerland.

The WHA, which brings together delegations from the 194 WHO Member States each year in Geneva, is a key moment for defining the broad directions of global health policy. It is also a unique opportunity for the WHO, States, and civil society organizations to share their priorities and negotiate and coordinate actions to improve global health.

Policy decisions in health matters must be based on scientific evidence. It is essential to have qualified individuals capable of understanding the complex issues of health system governance to ensure informed and effective choices.

It is also worth noting that Geneva is not only the international health capital, but also the global humanitarian capital. These two distinctions place Switzerland in a unique position, allowing students to be in close contact with key players in the fields of global health and humanitarian aid.  This provides students with a valuable opportunity to deepen their understanding of global issues. The strong Swiss continuing education and training landscape is a prime contributor to global capacity building and the mutual learning for change in public health.

The session will highlight the various public health training and education opportunities in Switzerland organized by the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), the Geneva Institute of Global Health, the Geneva Center for Humanitarian Studies and the Global Studies Institute.