2025 Calendar of Side-Events at the 78th World Health Assembly
The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) is maintaining this WHA78 events calendar to support the global health community during the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA 2025). This public WHA2025 side event schedule includes both official and independent side events happening in Geneva and online throughout the WHA week.
Browse the calendar to find relevant WHA side-events, coordinate with partners, and make the most of this important global health moment.
The inclusion of events on this page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement by GSF. This WHA2025 calendar of events is updated regularly, but GSF does not take responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of third-party listings. We encourage you to verify all event details via the official links provided.
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Sunday, 18 May 2025
WHA side-events schedule
Cancelled: Walk the Talk Geneva 2025
World Health Organization
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Place des Nations
Nursing & Midwifery Stakeholders Meeting on SOTA Care
G4 Alliance, Global Surgery Foundation, Operation Smile
11:00 AM - 1 PM
GSF Headquarters at Campus Biotech
By invitation only
10th Anniversary Celebration of the Global Surgery Movement
International College of Surgeons, The G4 Alliance
4:00 - 7:00 PM
Warwick Hotel
Monday, 19 May 2025
WHA side-events schedule
7:30 - 10:30 AM
City Cancer Challenge (C/Can)
Hotel InterContinental, Ballroom B
Integrating Congenital Conditions into Maternal and Child Health Programs
Global Action for Congenital Conditions (GACC)
7:30 - 9:30 AM
John Knox International Center
The ECO Continuum: How ACAN is Driving Better Patient Outcomes
Acute Care Action Network (ACAN)
7:30 - 9:00 AM
Impact Hub
Operating for Equity: Strengthening Surgical Systems to Achieve UHC
International Student Surgical Network – InciSioN
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Civil Society Networking Space
Taiwan Healthcare Youth Alliance (THYA)
1:00 - 5:00 PM
President Wilson Hotel Geneva
Rising Challenges, Diminishing Resources: Investing in the Health Workforce to Deliver UHC
World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Warwick Hotel
Accelerating Catalytic Financing in a New Era: Powerful Opportunities Beyond 2025
The Global Surgery Foundation
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Hotel InterContinental, Ballroom A
Catered dinner reception follows panel discussions
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
WHA side-events schedule
Turning The Tide: Leveraging Ai And Innovative Finance For Healthcare Resilience
Health Innovation Exchange
All-day
Hotel InterContinental
Geneva Health Forum 2025 (Day 1)
Nutrition
See link for latest session schedule
All-day
Campus Biotech
From Data to Action: How Standards & Metrics Drive Patient Safety
WFSA, UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery & Anesthesia (CHESA)
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Geneva Press Club
Transforming Women’s Health: Lessons from the Global South
Presented by Jhpiego and their partners with support from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
12:30 - 14:30 PM
InterContinental Geneva - Ballroom A
China's Medical Technology Innovation and its Implication for Global Health
UNIGE, Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University
12:30 - 3:00 PM
Campus Biotech
Malnutrition, the road to 2030: building on success, facing what's next
Geneva Health Forum
2:00 - 4:30 PM
Campus Biotech
Launch of the Lancet Health Policy article on Global Surgery 2025-2035
NIHR Global Surgery Unit, University of Birmingham, The Lancet, BJS
6:00 - 10:00 PM
La Pastorale
2 Year Country Progress on Implementing 76.19, Reducing Microdeficiencies Though Large Scale Food Fortification
Global Alliance for the Prevention of Spina Bifida and Folic Acid Deficiency (GAPSBIF)
6:00 - 8:30 PM
UNICEF Office
FDI World Dental Dederation & the International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research
6:30 - 8:45 AM
Royal Hotel Geneva
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
WHA side-events schedule
Geneva Health Forum 2025 (Day 2)
Climate Change and Health, Migration and Health
See link for latest session schedule
All-day
Campus Biotech
Innovative Health Financing for Sustainable Cancer Care - The Money. The Metrics. The Models. What’s changing - and why it matters
City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) & Access Accelerated
8:00 - 10:30 AM
Hotel InterContinental (Rome Room)
By invitation only
International SOS
8:00 - 10:00 AM
Hotel Royal Geneva
Scaling Impact: Climate & Health Solutions That Drive Change
Geneva Health Forum
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Campus Biotech
Fourth Meeting of the Global Coalition of Deans of Schools of Public Health
Global Coalition of Deans of Schools of Public Health
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Campus Biotech
Advancing Global Health: Science Agenda for the World Health Assembly
Science Summit
11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Hotel InterContinental
G4 Alliance, Northwest School of Medicine, Cambridge University, Brain Injury Canada
2:00 PM
Novotel Geneve Centre
Changing the Story: Collaboration & Solutions for Migrant Health
Geneva Health Forum
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Campus Biotech
Climate Change and Health: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing World
Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Campus Biotech
Leveraging Innovation for NCD Care: Policy, Systems, and Lessons from Oncology Leaders
Hosted by MSD
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Novotel Genève Centre
Strengthening Health Systems for Universal Health Coverage: Implementing Surgical Care
Operation Smile, Mercy Ships
5:00 PM
Hotel Warwick
Team Europe MAV+
5:30 - 7:00 PM
By invitation only (see contact details at link)
Milestones & Momentum in Rare Diseases: 10 Years of Progress, 10 Years of Possibility
Rare Diseases International
6:00 - 9:00 PM
La Pastorale
Strengthening Medical Imaging Capacity: The Time is Now
ISR, WFNMB and Siemens Healthineers
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Four Seasons Hotel Des Bergues
TRANSFORMING THE NARRATIVE: Chronic Respiratory Diseases in the HLM4
Copenhagen Institute of Futures Studies, Sanofi Regeneron
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Hilton Geneva Hotel & Conference Centre
Thursday, 22 May 2025
WHA side-events schedule
Geneva Digital Health Day - Geneva Health Forum 2025 (Day 3)
9 AM - 7 PM
Digital Health, AI, Implementation Science and Policy, Space & Health
See link for latest session schedule
Campus Biotech
School of Public Health, Fudan University
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Campus Biotech
2nd Chance Swiss Association
5:45 PM
La Pastorale
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: A STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE FOR HEALTH
World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Ecole Hôtelière de Genève
Evidence-Based Policy Making for Digital Wellbeing: Addressing Problematic Internet Use (PUI)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Mental Health SWI54
6:30 PM
Campus Biotech
Friday, 23 May 2025
WHA side-events schedule
Geneva Health Forum 2025 (Day 4)
See link for latest session schedule
All-day
Campus Biotech
Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health 2025
Korea Foundation for International Healthcare
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Campus Biotech
Addressing Pediatric Non-Communicable Diseases: Building Systems-Based Approaches in Nutrition
International Initiative for Pediatrics and Nutrition
5 - 7 PM
Hotel President Wilson, Apollon Conference Room
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