On 23 September 2019 a high-level meeting on universal health coverage will be held at the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting, ‘Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to Build a Healthier World’, will bring together heads of state, political and health leaders, policy-makers, and...

The Sixty-sixth session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean is scheduled to take place in Parsian Azadi Hotel, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from Monday 14 to Thursday 17 October 2019, inclusive.

IAPO will join health ministers and high level representatives at the WHO Regional Committee for Europe as a non-state actor in official relations with WHO at this meeting that will be at UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark. Key technical health issues on the agenda include: lessons learned from Health...

World Hepatitis Day takes places every year on 28 July bringing the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. Worldwide, 300 million people are living with viral hepatitis unaware. Without finding the undiagnosed and...

In partnership with Novartis, St. Luke’s Medical Center, International Federation of Psoriasis Association, Cancer Coalition Philippines, and Asian Institute of Management we will be co-hosting the 1st Asia Patient Innovation Summit (APIS). The summit is the product of a coalition of stakeholders...

In recognition of the scale of avoidable harm linked with unsafe medication practices and medication errors, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the third Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm in 2017. The goal was and still is to reduce severe, avoidable medication-...