📅 14 November 2024 🕙 14:00 – 16:00 (CET)
Online
We stand at a potentially historic moment – if we collectively rise to the occasion and seize the opportunity.
Last spring’s unanimously adopted WHO resolution on social participation in health creates the political pathway towards formally and officially integrating the voices of patients, lived experience communities, and civil society into health system decision-making – but implementing will be a long and complex road.
In this session, we will learn more about the resolution while also exploring in an interactive manner how to best harness its potential – including, but not limited to, through the ongoing work of the patient movement catalyst. A brief panel discussion will set the scene and participants will then move into active co-creation. Expected outputs include proposed actions by all health stakeholders (e.g., patients, healthcare providers, policy-makers, and industry partners) to support and amplify the resolution’s implementation at national and regional levels.
Session Objectives
- Deep Dive into the WHO Resolution: Gain a thorough understanding of the WHO resolution on social participation, emphasizing its groundbreaking potential for integrating patient voices into health systems even if patients are not explicitly mentioned in the resolution.
- Bridge Advocacy and Collaboration Gaps: Identify and address barriers in patient advocacy while exploring new opportunities to enhance visibility and build strategic partnerships across the health ecosystem toward implementing the resolution’s commitments.
- Strengthen Organizational Capabilities: Develop and refine strategies that improve the effectiveness of patient organizations within the framework of health systems, as buttressed and supported by this resolution.
- Develop Actionable Strategies: Collaboratively create a focused, comprehensive action plan that all communities can implement to accelerate the resolution’s adoption and impact.
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