The World We Want: action towards a sustainable, fairer and healthier society

By UHC Forum 2020

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century the world has been shaken at its economic, political, and social core by a series of convergent and interrelated events - the COVID-19 pandemic, the growing impact of climate change, and the rapidly growing economic inequalities between and within nations. They have led to calls for re-thinking the future of human societies in ways that will result in a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable world.

The 2022 PMAC theme – “The World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer and Healthier Society”, aims to take a long view by focusing on the ‘mega trends’ that will shape the rest of this century and the complex interplay between them, including how they are already reshaping our global health landscape. PMAC 2022 will consider how the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the geopolitics of global health, implications of key shifts in the makeup of the world’s population, the opportunity gains and threats of exponential technological change, and that most urgent of ticking clocks the imminent and evolving threats to global health and wellbeing posed by climate change.

On 26 January 2022 at 18:30-19:30 (Bangkok time), PMNCH Board Chair, Helen Clark will be among the keynote speakers for the opening session.