Live from Berlin: Key takeaways from the World Health Summit
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Live from Berlin: Key takeaways from the World Health Summit

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 14, 202612 min
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This week, the Devex team is on the ground in Berlin for the World Health Summit. We explore how this year’s event stands apart from previous iterations and what makes it distinct from the World Health Assembly. During the conversation, we explore a major theme of the event: the intersection of global health and security. With geopolitical tensions rising, we examine how organizations are struggling to deliver healthcare in active war zones such as Sudan and Ukraine. We also go through our interview with Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya about the ongoing challenge of containing the Ebola crisis in th...

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Hello and welcome to this special edition of this week in Global Development. My name is Tom Serab. I'm an Associate Editor here at DevEx and I'm joined by our Global Health reporters Andrew Green and Sarah Gerving. We are recording live from our content studio at the World Health Summit here in Berlin. Sarah, this is your very first time at the

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World Health Summit. You've been covering Global Health for years. How are you finding experience. It's been very interesting. I've attended a lot of World Health Assemblies and kind of the difference between those assemblies and the summit is that it's much more of an intimate gathering and there's at the World

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Health Assembly it's kind of more of a bureaucratic space where you have country delegations and kind of different issue areas like NCDs and lung health and whatnot and a lot of events focused around different propositions that are going to be brought before the assembly, whereas this conference seems more driven

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