GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH
Technology innovation needs to be ensured in every region of the world
The way COVID-19 disrupted economies and societies around the globe unambiguously exposes how health influences every-day life and the society. Science, technology, and innovation (STI) have been triggering many solutions to tackle the pandemic. But in the race to deploy these, wealthier nations have secured the lion’s share, leaving poorer regions ill-equipped to keep the disease at bay. The rapid spread of COVID-19 throughout the planet, both initially and as new variants have emerged, shows how wealthier nations and societies are not immune to the effects of global inequalities.
The same scenario applies to climate change. While lower-income countries initially suffer the harshest effects, the impacts will also create a contagion of problems, including those related to health, all over the world.
To stabilize health globally, the international community must pull together ways to facilitate equitable access to health-related technologies, as well as improve local innovation capacities. The 2030 Agenda has the potential to comprehensibly embrace the issues of this crisis and guides toward recovery from COVID-19.
Conference programme
Health
17 January 2022
Technological solutions to address health crises and its impacts
17/01/2022, 14:30 - 16:00 GST (Dubai)
11:30 - 13:00 CET/WAT (Brussels, Nigeria)
12:30 - 14:00 SAST (Cape Town)
05:30 - 07:00 EST (New York)
19:30 - 21:00 KST (Seoul)
18:30 - 20:00 CST (Beijing)
16:00 - 17:30 IST (New Delhi)
07:30 - 09:00 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are playing an essential role in solving the current COVID-19 crisis and will continue to do so for future catastrophes. The pandemic was a catalyst for new developments and faster evolution of vaccines. Tests and pharmaceuticals were innovated at unprecedented speed.
The intensive use of telemedicine and other communication technologies also helped increase the productivity and responsiveness of health systems. Meanwhile, the integration of mathematical sciences for prediction and modeling of essential elements proved to be a valuable resource for health field decision-makers.
The impressive gains achieved were only possible due to significant collaboration between sectors, including the private sector and countries, under coordination by the World Health Organization. But while STI have the potential to embrace universal access, an insupportable duality is being created between those who can afford knowledge and technology and those who cannot. International collaboration is necessary to enhance equity on digital and technology access and to guide strategically STI development for the future.
This session will present lessons learned from the international community about the emergency of the pandemic, the challenges in controlling it, as well as the recovery plans and preparedness for future outbreaks.
Chaired by
Paulo Gadelha
Fiocruz
Former President, Coordinator Strategy for 2030 Agenda
As coordinator of the Fiocruz Strategy for the 2030 Agenda, Gadelha is in charge of promoting strategic engagement between Fiocruz and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His background includes studies of the application of technology in public health, healthcare models, and enhancing Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) for the SDGs.
Gadelha served as president of Fiocruz from 2009 to 2016, leading scientific achievements in biomedical sciences, generation of scientific and technological knowledge, and health and social development promotion. Between 2016 and 2021, Dr. Gadelha was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a member of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism (UN-TFM) ‘10-Member Group’ to provide expertise and support to the UN Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on STI for the SDGs.
Previously, he founded and directed the “Casa de Oswaldo Cruz,” a Fiocruz institute dedicated to the sociology and history of science and health. Dr. Gadelha also served as a member of the National Health Council’s Science and Technology Intersectoral Commission. As President of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health, he chaired the 11th World Congress on Public Health. In 2017, with UN/DESA, he chaired the efforts of Fiocruz in organizing the 1st Consultation on Health and STI in the 2030 Agenda’s implementation.
Panel discussion
18 January 2022
Environmental and social technologies to build health resilience
18/01/2022, 10:00 - 11:30 GST (Dubai)
07:00 - 08:30 CET/WAT (Brussels, Nigeria)
08:00 - 09:30 SAST (Cape Town)
01:00 - 02:30 EST (New York)
15:00 - 16:30 KST (Seoul)
14:00 - 15:30 CST (Beijing)
11:30 - 13:00 IST (New Delhi)
03:00 - 04:30 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Increasingly extreme weather events brought on by global warming are killing hundreds of thousands and disrupting millions of lives while threatening healthcare systems and facilities when they are most needed. At the same time, changes in climate and biodiversity loss are challenging food security and increasing the prevalence of many diseases.
COVID-19 allowed to review infectious diseases surveillance strategies to incorporate environmental and animal components into health assessment – the One Health concept. Through previous pandemics, humanity learned valuable lessons, such as what triggers the emergence of a new pathogen, how to monitor it, and how to block the transmission. But those improvements were not enough to keep us from struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. The world cannot sustain a repetition of these pandemic impacts. To avoid future outbreaks, different actions are necessary. Sophisticated technology and modern genetic tools enable more efficient monitoring of wildlife pathogens and can serve as valuable tools to build pandemic preparedness and response.
The battle against COVID-19 is far from over. At the same time, our unsustainable relationship with nature is far from fixed. If the response to COVID-19 does not align with national climate change strategies, the world will not be able to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement. Therefore, health and health systems will become increasingly more damaged.
This session will present how science, technology, and innovation (STI) can integrate environmental parameters and health data to predict diseases and the importance of forming partnerships, tackling inequalities and strengthening the links between environmental policy goals and public health to win this battle and prepare for new outbreaks.
Chaired by
The georeferenced wildlife health information system
Douglas Adriano Augusto
Fiocruz
Researcher
Douglas A. Augusto is a computer scientist research fellow at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. He has a background in data-driven modeling through machine learning algorithms and also in parallel high-performance computing. For the past years he has been working on modeling the occurrence of zoonotic diseases, with emphasis on sylvatic yellow fever.
Climate change adaptation technologies for health
Kim Hyun
University of Minnesota
Professor
Hyun Kim is an environmental epidemiologist and an associate professor at the University of Minnesota in the United States of America. Kim’s main research areas are climate change adaptation strategies and the minimization of climate change impact from the public health perspective. Kim works closely with the World Health Organization to develop international and national-level projects to build climate resilience in the health sector.
Panel discussion
Vaccine and diagnostic technologies in response to health crises
18/01/2022, 14:00 - 15:30 GST (Dubai)
11:00 - 12:30 CET/WAT (Brussels, Nigeria)
12:00 - 13:30 SAST (Cape Town)
05:00 - 06:30 EST (New York)
19:00 - 20:30 KST (Seoul)
18:00 - 19:30 CST (Beijing)
15:30 - 17:00 IST (New Delhi)
07:00 - 08:30 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how quickly disease can spread in a globalised world. Technology played a crucial role in shortening the time to develop and produce medical devices, diagnostics kits and vaccines to deaccelerate COVID-19 deaths.
However, access to these technologies is not equitable around the world. Low availability, typically in low-income countries, results in lengthening the duration of the pandemic and making room for the emergence of new variants.
This session will examine the existing international collaborative framework which has been created to advance technologies for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also discuss how the production of health devices can be speed up via technology and international cooperation, to reduce inequalities and promote universal access to health.
Chaired by
Mauricio Zuma
Fiocruz
Director of Biomanguinhos
Paradigm shift and innovation in a world hungry for vaccines
Panel discussion
STI roadmaps as tools for building resilience to future health crises
18/01/2022, 17:15 - 18:30 GST (Dubai)
14:15 - 15:30 CET/WAT (Brussels, Nigeria)
15:15 - 16:30 SAST (Cape Town)
08:15 - 09:30 EST (New York)
22:15 - 23:30 KST (Seoul)
21:15 - 22:30 CST (Beijing)
18:45 - 20:00 IST (New Delhi)
10:15 - 11:30 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
The intensifying and varied challenges our world is facing all require meaningful solutions. These solutions derive from the combined power of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and the convergence of a wide range of technology domains.
For this matter, the 2030 Agenda’s Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) joined forces with the United Nations to develop the Global Pilot Programme on STI for SDGs Roadmaps. Another initiative, the UN Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery is a tool that aims to catalyze a worldwide research capacity for COVID-19 recovery effort. The WHO’S R&B Blueprint was another relevant roadmap that has helped facing the COVID-19 crisis with relevant results.
Insights from the full range of disciplines, including natural sciences, engineering, health sciences, social sciences and the humanities, are more needed than ever. Roadmaps can ease the identification of existing knowledge and gaps. They can also improve coordination and accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparedness for future health emergencies.
Chaired by
Gerson Oliveira Penna Penna
Fiocruz
Researcher
Medical Doctor, Graduated at the Federal University of Pará. Holder of a Specialization in Dermatology by the Brazilian Society of Dermatology; Doctor in Tropical Medicine at the University of Brasília, Post-doctorate in Public Health at the Institute of Public Health at the Federal University of Bahia. Elected Vice President of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology and President of the Brazilian Congress of Dermatology. Founder and Former Director of the National Center of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health of Brazil. Special Advisor to the Minister of Health Adib Jatene, Consultant of the PAHO, WHOS and PNUD. Former Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance. Former director of Fiocruz Brasilia.
Full Collaborator Doctor and Researcher at the Tropical Medicine Group at the University of Brasilia. His academic production sums more than 253 scientific papers. Gerson Penna is among the scientists who have contributed the most to studies on neglected diseases around the world over the past 10 years. Among dermatologists, it is the first on the list: https://www.expertscape.com/ex/leprosy. Deputy Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Areas of knowledge: Public Health; Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; Social Determinants in Health; Public Policies.
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) roadmaps for the SDGs
Wei Liu
Coordinator of the UN Inter-agency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, PhD., DSDG, UN DESA
Wei Liu is the Coordinator of the UN Inter-agency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Officer in the Integrated Policy and Analysis Branch of the Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UN DESA. He provides both substantive and organizational support to the implementation of the science, technology and innovation (STI)-related decisions contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and other related global processes. Wei Liu joined the United Nations in 2005. He has mainly worked in development policy and contributed to various United Nations publications including the Global Sustainable Development Report and policy briefs of the Technology Facilitation Mechanisms.
His research areas cover from STI policy and roadmaps, AI strategies, green economy and trade, technology solutions for the SDGs, financing for a green economy transition, inequality, and post 2015 development agenda, trade finance and aid in the context of global financial crisis, to food security and sustainable agriculture. Working in the Rio+20 Secretariat, he was extensively involved in the United Nations Rio + 20 process and provided technical support on green economy, trade, and finance related issues for the Rio+20 negotiations. Before that, Wei Liu worked as an Associated Economic Affairs Officer in the Trade and Investment Division, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand, and as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, the UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Birmingham.
Panel discussion
24 October 2021
The hospital of the future enabling quality excellence and fully integrated care
24/10/2021, 17:30 - 18:00 GST (Dubai)
15:30 - 16:00 CEST/SAST (Brussels, Cape Town)
14:30 - 15:00 WAT (Nigeria)
09:30 - 10:00 EDT (New York)
22:30 - 23:00 KST (Seoul)
21:30 - 22:00 CST (Beijing)
19:00 - 19:30 IST (New Delhi)
10:30 - 11:00 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
The way health care is organised is going through a period of rapid change. Among the many adjustments, the transition to more integrated care is undoubtably one that will have a profound impact on how hospitals are organised in the future. Managing the quality of these integrated care processes will pose several challenges. Given the multiple levels of care concerned, this will require multidisciplinary cooperation and smart investments in new technology.
Decisions about building and organising the hospitals of the future will need to consider how the UN’s SDGs will be implemented, so that high quality care can be delivered in a sustainable way.
Introduction
Kristiaan Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Chief Medical Officer
Liesbet Lombaerts
GZA Hospitals
Director Care and Strategy
Wim Van De Waeter
ZNA Hospitals
Chief Nursing Executive
Filip Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Head of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Strategic design and planning of future hospitals
Marc Geboers
Zorgnet Icuro
Director General Hospitals
Managing the hospital of the future
Kristiaan Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Chief Medical Officer
Innovation for future care
Jan Witters
GZA
Director Process, Quality and Innovation
25 October 2021
Artificial Intelligence in radiology
25/10/2021, 11:15 - 12:45 GST (Dubai)
09:15 - 10:45 CEST/SAST (Brussels, Cape Town)
08:15 - 09:45 WAT (Nigeria)
03:15 - 04:45 EDT (New York)
16:15 - 17:45 KST (Seoul)
15:15 - 16:45 CST (Beijing)
12:45 - 14:15 IST (New Delhi)
04:15 - 05:45 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Radiology plays a key role in diagnosis and management of disease, providing individual patient data which enables personalisation of therapy. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence will enable it to be carried out faster, as well as more accurately, efficiently and sustainably. This will free up radiologists’ time for multidisciplinary meetings, policy making and education, while quality of diagnosis in regions that are short-staffed will be enhanced.
Chaired by
Filip Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Head of Radiology and Medical Imaging
AI’s foreseeable impact on radiologists’ work and how this affects sustainability
Erik Robert Ranschaert
ETZ Hospital Tilburg
Digital doctor
Implementation of AI in medical imaging equipment for improved quality and sustainability
Ole Per Maloy
Siemens Healthineers
Managing Director
AI Deployment in LMIC Countries
Herman Oosterwijk
RAD-AID International
Trainer/Consultant, Manager Informatics
Transmural Radiology and AI
Anjum Ahmed
Agfa Healthcare
Chief Medical Officer
How AI is changing the landscape of medicine
Wiro Niessen
Erasmus MC & TU Delft
Professor of Biomedical Imager Analysis
AI management and financing
Erik Robert Ranschaert
ETZ Hospital Tilburg
Digital doctor
Reorganising the healthcare environment for integrated sustainability
25/10/2021, 15:45 - 17:15 GST (Dubai)
13:45 - 15:15 CEST/SAST (Brussels, Cape Town)
12:45 - 14:15 WAT (Nigeria)
07:45 - 09:15 EDT (New York)
20:45 - 22:15 KST (Seoul)
19:45 - 21:15 CST (Beijing)
17:15 - 18:45 IST (New Delhi)
08:45 - 10:15 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Health care workers (HCW’s) play a vital role in providing the necessary care to advance health and wellbeing across the globe. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) estimates that up to 13 million nurses will be needed to fill the global nurse shortage gap in the future. What do health care workers need to stay engaged and motivated in healthcare? How important is the working environment and what can healthcare organisations do to enhance engagement? Which shift in skill mix and competencies do nurses need in the future?
Chaired by
Liesbet Lombaerts
GZA Hospitals
Director Care and Strategy
Wim Van De Waeter
ZNA Hospitals
Chief Nursing Executive
The working environment in healthcare and the impact on staff welbeing: strategies to adapt the practice setting
Walter Sermeus
KU Leuven
Professor Institute for Healthcare Policy
Walter Sermeus is a professor of healthcare management at the Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, within the University of Leuven KU Leuven, Belgium. He is currently the Programme Director of this university’s Master in Health Care Policy & Management course, and was the Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2015-16.
Sermeus has a PhD in public health, master’s degrees in biostatistics, healthcare management and nursing sciences and a bachelor’s degree in nursing. He was European coordinator of the EU-FP7 RN4CAST-project, Nurse Forecasting in Europe 2009-2011. Walter Sermeus is also a fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science, the American Academy of Nursing and the Royal Societies of Medicine in Belgium and the UK.
The rise of self-employed healthcare workers: filling the missing gaps
Lex Tabak
Behavioral coach
The globally inenquitable workforce distribution: migration, cultural fit and economic impact
Marguerite Baty Lucea
Towson University
Assistant Professor
Engaged staff provide safe, high-quality care
Rebecca Richmond
Optum
Director Optum Advisory Services
Useful methods for managing health workforce shortages
Eszter Kovacs
Semmelweis University
Assistant Professor
26 October 2021
Planning the hospitals of the future
26/10/2021, 14:00 - 15:00 GST (Dubai)
12:00 - 13:00 CEST/SAST (Brussels, Cape Town)
11:00 - 12:00 WAT (Nigeria)
06:00 - 07:00 EDT (New York)
19:00 - 20:00 KST (Seoul)
18:00 - 19:00 CST (Beijing)
15:30 - 16:30 IST (New Delhi)
07:00 - 08:00 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Hospitals will simultaneously evolve into high tech integration hubs and guest houses, the design of which will largely be determined by the expectations and experiences of patients, their relatives and their caregivers.
Data about each patient’s journey will have to be gathered at every step and made available in a safe, reliable and relevant way to all stakeholders involved in the care processes.
Beyond the bricks & mortar, the next generation of hospital control centres will also look significantly different due to this radical shift.
Chaired by
Kristiaan Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Chief Medical Officer
Jan Witters
GZA
Director Process, Quality and Innovation
Marc Geboers
Zorgnet Icuro
Director General Hospitals
Jan Berger
ZNA
Head of Medical Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Hospitals without walls! A bright digital future for health care
Mike Jones
Gartner for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Vice President
Next generation of analytics within the (virtual) hospital of the future
Peter Bak
Humber River Hospital (Canada)
Chief Information Officer
Henk Vincent
AZ Nikolaas
Director Masterplan construction site
Maitbrinn Damman
C.J. Moller Norway
Architect Heathcare
Design of future hospitals, beyond bricks & mortar
Els Kuypers
AZ Jessa Hasselt
Architect osararchitects
Managing the hospital of the future
26/10/2021, 15:15 - 16:15 GST (Dubai)
13:15 - 14:15 CEST/SAST (Brussels, Cape Town)
12:15 - 13:15 WAT (Nigeria)
07:15 - 08:15 EDT (New York)
20:15 - 21:15 KST (Seoul)
19:15 - 20:15 CST (Beijing)
16:45 - 17:45 IST (New Delhi)
08:15 - 09:15 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Within today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, hospitals need business models which are both flexible and dynamic. Keeping stakeholders satisfied will require a rethinking of processes around things such as alternative forms of hospital financing, patient empowerment and quality management systems. The complex nature of integrated care will require the presence of more specialised caregivers, as well as physicians and nurses who are capable of coordinating it. New roles, such as disease-specific case managers and medical engineers, will become a key component. To ensure health professionals continue to regard hospitals as an attractive workplace, hospital management needs to provide a comfortable, innovative and rewarding work environment.
Chaired by
Kristiaan Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Chief Medical Officer
Jan Witters
GZA
Director Process, Quality and Innovation
Marc Geboers
Zorgnet Icuro
Director General Hospitals
Jan Berger
ZNA
Head of Medical Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Organising care in response to calamities
Pablo Quesado
Fiocruz
Chief Medical Officer National Institute of Infectiology
Sustainability of future quality management systems
Peter Lachman
PIPSQC
Chairperson Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community
Connecting hospitals and primary care to improve both care and value
Anne Woitak
East Toronto Health Partners (Canada)
Lead
Designing the future of care
Ilke Montag
Jan Yperman Hospital
Chief Medical Officer
Innovation for future care
26/10/2021, 16:30 - 17:30 GST (Dubai)
14:30 - 15:30 CEST/SAST (Brussels, Cape Town)
13:30 - 14:30 WAT (Nigeria)
08:30 - 09:30 EDT (New York)
21:30 - 22:30 KST (Seoul)
20:30 - 21:30 CST (Beijing)
18:00 - 19:00 IST (New Delhi)
09:30 - 10:30 BRT (Rio de Janeiro)
Future-proof solutions, inspired by state-of-the-art technology in other industries, are already available to enable the innovation of both clinical and supporting processes in health care. The hospital of the future should provide an environment where innovative technological and organisational techniques can easily be deployed and integrated into existing processes. Doing so requires managerial structures for addressing potential roadblocks and technical or scientifical gaps which hinder this.
Chaired by
Kristiaan Deckers
GZA Hospitals
Chief Medical Officer
Jan Witters
GZA
Director Process, Quality and Innovation
Marc Geboers
Zorgnet Icuro
Director General Hospitals
Jan Berger
ZNA
Head of Medical Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Challenges and the future of diagnostic medicine in Brazil
Conrado Cavalcanti
UHG Brazil
Director United Health Group
Innovation ecosystem and digital health strategies at the University of São Paulo Clinical Hospital
Marco Bego
InovalHC (Brazil)
Chief Innovation Officer
Cocreating a new reality of learning and development within healthcare
Evarest Schoofs
OneBonsai
Chief Executive Officer
Sustainable and integrated medical ecosystems powered by unmanned aviation
Mikael Shamim
Helicus
Chief Executive Officer
Accelerating innovation in times of business and technology disruption
Mike Jones
Gartner for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Vice President
Keynote speakers
Health
Thematic coordinators
Health
Chief Medical Officer
Head of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Former President, Coordinator Strategy for 2030 Agenda
Director General Hospitals
Director Care and Strategy
Managing Partner
Chief Nursing Executive
Director Process, Quality and Innovation
Thematic partners
