Funding inclusive and equitable pandemic preparedness

October 25, 2022

London & Online | 8:50 a.m. BST

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About the Event

While societies across the globe begin to embrace the so-called new normal of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the global health community is still grappling with how to fund future pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.

This event hosted by Devex in partnership with Open Society Foundations will dive deep into what it will take to crowd in the necessary funding for pandemic preparedness while ensuring equity and equality are at the heart of the design, planning and implementation of global efforts moving forward.

The international community is currently facing an estimated $10.5 billion annual gap in global pandemic preparedness and response financing. Our collective challenge is how to raise those funds and ensure equitable global access to vaccines and test, therapeutics, global surveillance, and health system strengthening, and more.

Save your spot to attend in person in London to hear from international experts on:

• The opportunities and challenges of funding initiatives, such as the World Bank’s financial intermediary fund and the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.
• What’s needed to overcome challenges facing South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, such as ensuring a sustainable business model.
• Ways to integrate communities into the design, planning, and implementation of pandemic preparedness.
• The case for continuing to prioritize funding for pandemic preparedness despite competing global crises.

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Agenda

8:50 - 9:10 a.m. BST

Registration
In person only

9:10 - 9:40 a.m. BST

Networking breakfast
In person only

9:40 - 9:45 a.m. BST

Opening remarks

Jessica Abrahams, editor, Devex Pro

9:45 - 9:55 a.m. BST

One-on-one interview with Mark Malloch-Brown, President, Open Society Foundations

Interviewer: Richard Jones, editorial director, Devex

9:55 - 10:35 a.m. BST

Panel discussion: The next frontier for funding pandemic preparedness

• Precious Matsoso, co-chair of WHO’s intergovernmental negotiating body, and former director-general of the South African National Department of Health.

• Dr. Peter Baker, policy fellow and assistant director, Center for Global Development.

• Dr. Fifa Rahman, CSO representative to WHO's ACT Accelerator, principal consultant at Matahari Global Solutions, and special adviser at Health Poverty Action.

• Colin Puzo Smith, director of expansion and communications, RESULTS.

Firestarter intervention:

• Priya Basu, executive head, the Pandemic Fund Secretariat, World Bank Group.