World Health Summit, Regional Meeting – Asia 2013

For the first time, the World Health Summit which counts German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande as patrons, will be holding its inaugural regional meeting outside of Europe in Asia, Singapore. Themed “Health for Sustainable Development in Asia”, the meeting will be held from April 8th – 10th, 2013 at The Ritz Carlton, Millenia Singapore.

The meeting will be opened by Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and is expected to be attended by up to 1000 regional policy makers, industry CEOs, medical practitioners, leading scientists and stakeholders from civil society.

Confirmed speakers include:

a.    Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Chairman & Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, NH Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City, India

b.    Ms. Laurie Garret, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, USA      

c.    Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Institute of Public Health of India, India  

d.    Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Senior Adviser for Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

e.    Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief, The Lancet, United Kingdom

f.     Prof. William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

g.    Prof. Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Register now and be a part of this landmark event! For the latest programme, please visit http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/whsrma2013/home.html.