WISH reveals ‘Humanizing Health’ as theme of its 7th global conference

Doha, Qatar: The theme of this year s World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has been revealed as Humanizing Health: Conflict, Equity and Resilien...

Doha, Qatar: The theme of this year’s World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has been revealed as ‘Humanizing Health: Conflict, Equity and Resilience’.

The seventh conference of the global health initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF) will take place in Doha on November 13 and 14. It will highlight the need for health innovation to support everyone, leaving nobody behind and building resilience, especially among vulnerable societies and in areas of armed conflict.

Lord Ara Darzi, Executive Chair of WISH and Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, said: “This year’s WISH comes at a time of great suffering and inadequate health provision for vulnerable populations, such as civilians in Gaza. It is of the utmost importance that we consider the cost of inaction at a systematic and human level.

“At WISH 7 in November, it is vital that we make the most of a precious opportunity to look for solutions to pressing global health challenges. The solutions that the global WISH community seeks must be equitable and foster resilience; they must humanize health.”

This year, WISH has entered a strategic partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) — a partnership that involves collaboration in the development of a series of evidence-based reports and policy papers, as well as the support of WHO in a post-summit implementation strategy. With an evidence-based approach to developing innovative, practical solutions to some of global health’s most pressing challenges, the reports aim to provide policy recommendations that deal with how best to provide care at an individual, human level.