Events

As patients are an integral component in supporting regulatory system strengthening and harmonization in the Asia Region, IAPO will be particiapting to ensure the patient voice is heard. The Asia Regulatory Conference (ARC), hosted by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers...

The Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and the University of Geneva, organizers of the Geneva Health Forum (GHF), regret to announce that the Steering Committee together with the Programme Committee of the GHF have decided to postpone the eighth edition of the Forum which was due to take place 24th...

The 2020 Global Patients Congress will bring together around 200 patient advocates from across the world. Organizations of all sizes will share best practice, gain insight into pressing healthcare issues and meet with others passionate about patient-centred healthcare. Delegates representing dozens...

IAPO’s Asia-Pacific Patients Congress is our 2019 regional event which will bring together the patient movement in the Asia-Pacific region. The Congress aims to bring together around 150 patient advocates from the region to share their insights, perspectives, experiences and best practices on...

Patient Safety: a global health priority Slogan: Speak up for Patient Safety! This first annual World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) is a moment for the global health community to come together to raise public awareness, understanding and engagement globally of the need to work towards global solidarity...

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-...

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...

Safe blood for all Marked every year on 14 June, the event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and also to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure that all individuals and communities have access to affordable and timely...

IAPO member, World Federation of Incontinence Patients (WFIP) is delighted to announce that this year they will celebrate the first ever multistakeholder WFIP FORUM in Europe. It will be held in Barcelona, at the Hospital San Pau. WFIP is expecting a participation of some 100delegates, this on a...