Health: A Political Choice FHFW

5 SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION, RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

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4.4 Strengthening national public health institutes: Fiocruz’s perspective Mario Santos Moreira, president, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Paulo Marchiori Buss, former president, and João Miguel Estephanio 4.5 Licensing for equity: Why access to medicines needs a new global approach Charles Gore, executive director, Medicines Patents Pool 4.6 UN HLM on Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health – A case of same old, same old? C James Hospedales, chair, executive committee, Defeat-NCD Partnership, and founder, EarthMedic and EarthNurse Foundation for Planetary Health PROMOTED CONTENT The Catalyst Effect: Unlocking innovation for global NCD care through cross-sector collaboration Jon Fairest, head of Global Health Unit, Sanofi SPOTLIGHT From dialogue to direction: Enabling partnerships to drive the future of health Balvir S Tomar, founder and chancellor, NIMS University

5.5 The only way is forward together Soumya Swaminathan, chair, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, and Harkabir Singh Jandu SPOTLIGHT American anti-science activism is globalising Peter Hotez, professor of paediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology; co-director, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development; and dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine 6 INFORMATION INTEGRITY 6.1 Health in the age of disinformation: Protecting truth, protecting democracy Alain Berset, secretary general, Council of Europe 6.2 The Health with Science Programme experience: Information integrity in the Global South Ethel Leonor Maciel, former secretary of health and environmental surveillance, Brazil 6.3 Belief in science has eroded, but we can rebuild it Aviva Philipp-Muller, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University 6.4 Now more than ever: We need quality health information for all Scott C Ratzan, co-chair, Nature Medicine Commission on Quality Health Information for All

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5.0 Introduction Jeremy Farrar, assistant director-general, Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care Division, World Health Organization 5.1 A shift in the centre of gravity and a shift in opportunity Jeremy Farrar, assistant director-general, Fatima Serhan, executive officer, Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Care Division, and Thidar Pyone, technical officer, Office of the Chief Scientist, World Health Organization 5.2 On being unapologetically pro-regulation Bilal Mateen, chief AI officer, PATH 5.3 Poor, sick and unconnected: The paradox of digital health Cesar Victora, professor emeritus of epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil 5.4 Science and solidarity: A new paradigm for global health Yasmine Belkaid, president, Institut Pasteur, Mario Santos Moreira, president, Pasteur Network, and Rebecca Grais, executive director, Pasteur Network

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4 Health: A Political Choice – The Future of Health in a Fractured World

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