MEDIA ADVISORY: VPC on the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All new Financing for Health brief, 26 October at 14:00 CEST

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Monday, 25 October 2021

MEDIA ADVISORY

Virtual Press Conference on the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All new Financing for Health brief

When: Tuesday, 26 October at 14:00 CEST

Context: In the run-up to G20, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All is calling for a radical redirection from health for the economy to the economy for health for all. The Council was established in November 2020 by the WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Its core mission is to rethink how value in health and wellbeing is measured, produced, and distributed across the economy. On Tuesday, the Council will release their second brief, on Financing for Health, that will target G20 discussions. The Council calls on policymakers to act now for more finance and better finance through three pathways to action: creating fiscal space, directing investments, and governing public and private finance. The embargoed brief is available to interested journalists.

Speakers:

· Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General

· Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

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