WHS 2025
Speakers
The World Health Summit brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future. A full list of WHS 2025 speakers will be available in our program.
Please find a selection of high-level speakers at the World Health Summit 2025 below:
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General
World Health Organization (WHO)
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Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari
Advisor to the Prime Minister
Ministry of Public Health Affairs
Qatar
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Inger Ashing
CEO
Save the Children International
United Kingdom
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Hanan Balkhy
Regional Director of the Eastern Mediterranean Region
World Health Organization (WHO)
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Ricardo Baptista Leite
CEO
Health AI
Switzerland
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Priya Basu
Executive Head
The Pandemic Fund
United States of America
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Seth Berkley
Senior Adviser
Pandemic Center at Brown University
United States of America
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Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
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Christos Christou
International President
Doctors Without Borders
Switzerland
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Helen Clark
Chair of the Board
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Switzerland
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Awa Marie Coll-Seck
President
The Galien Foundation & Forum Galien Africa
Senegal
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Mekdes Daba
Minister of Health
Ethiopia
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Katie Dain
CEO
NCD Alliance (NCDA)
Switzerland
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Kieran Daly
Director
Gates Foundation & Global Health Agencies and Funds
United States of America
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Sally Davies
UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
United Kingdom
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Christian Drosten
Director
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin & Institute of Virology
Germany
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Victor J. Dzau
President
National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
United States of America
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Jeremy Farrar
Assistant Director
Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Control at World Health Organization (WHO)
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Githinji Gitahi
Group CEO
Amref Health Africa
Kenya
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Rebecca Grais
Executive Director
Pasteur Network
France
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Andy Haines
Professor Environmental Change and Public Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
United Kingdom
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Jane Halton
Chair
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
Norway
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Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief
The Lancet
United Kingdom
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Jayasree K. Iyer
CEO
Access to Medicine Foundation
The Netherlands
Tanushree Jain
Chairperson of Public Health
International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF)
The Netherlands
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Former Prime Minister
Iceland
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Tracy Johnson
Senior Officer & Design Anthropologist
Gates Foundation and Data & Insights, Gender Equality Division
United States of America
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Jean Kaseya
Director-General
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
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Ilona Kickbusch
Founding Director
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies & Global Health Center
Switzerland
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Heyo Kroemer
CEO
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany
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Ralf Kuhlen
Chief Medical Officer
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
Germany
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Viktor Liashko
Minister of Health
Ukraine
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Ethel Maciel
Special Envoy for COP30
Brazil
Joan Matji
Global Director
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) & Child Nutrition and Development
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Angeli Möller
Group Chief Health Officer
Zühlke Engineering
Germany
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Bernd Montag
CEO
Siemens Healthineers AG
Germany
Rakan Nassereddine
Minister of Public Health
Lebanon
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Sania Nishtar
CEO
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Switzerland
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Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
President & CEO
The ONE Campaign
United States of America
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Hiroyuki Okuzawa
President & CEO
Daiichi Sankyo
Japan
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Kevin Outterson
Executive Director
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X)
United States of America
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Joy Phumaphi
Executive Secretary
African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA)
Tanzania
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Peter Piot
Handa Professor of Global Health
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
United Kingdom
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Jay Rajda
Physician Executive
Global Healthcare at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
United States of America
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Kumanan Rasanathan
Executive Director
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHSPR)
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David Reddy
Director-General
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
Switzerland
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John-Arne Røttingen
CEO
Wellcome Trust
United Kingdom
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Peter Sands
Executive Director
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Switzerland
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Thomas Schinecker
CEO
Roche
Switzerland
Naina Subberwal Batra
CEO
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)
Singapore
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Maria Van Kerkhove
COVID-19 Technical Lead for the World Health Organization & the Head of Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses in WHO’s Health Emergencies Programm
World Health Organization (WHO)
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Rhoda Wanyenze
Dean
Makerere University, School of Public Health
Uganda
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Nina Warken
Federal Minister of Health
Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
Germany
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Lothar H. Wieler
Chair
Digital Global Public Health at Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)
Germany
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Durhane Wong-Rieger
President & CEO
Organization for Rare Disorders
Canada