Sessions 1 and 2 from 4th WSC Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

Sessions 1 and 2 from the 4th World Sepsis Congress are now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

Session 1: Opening Session – Key Success Factors to Address Global Health Threats

Opening Remarks: Niranjan ‘Tex’ Kissoon, Program Chair & President GSA, Canada

Greetings:

  • Tedros Adhanmon Ghebreyesus, Director-General World Health Organization, Switzerland

  • Veronika von Messling, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

Sepsis and the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Achim Steiner, Administrator United Nations Development Program, United States of America

Key Success Factors in the Fight Against AIDS/HIV
John Nkengasong, United States Global AIDS Coordinator, Cameroon

Key Lessons Learned to Get Sepsis on the International Agenda
Konrad Reinhart, Global Sepsis Alliance, Germany

Key Success Factors in the Fight Against Climate Change
Anders Levermann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

The Potential of the G7 and G20 Partners to Fight Global Health Threats
Alan Donnelly, The G20 Health & Development Partnership, United KingdomThe Key Pillars for Pandemic Preparedness

The Role of Public Health to Fight Global Health Threats
Beate Kampmann, Charité University Hospital, Germany

Session 2: The Health Economic and Human Burden of Infections and Pandemics

The Global Burden of Sepsis and Infection-Related Long-Term Consequences
Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, Jena University Hospital, Germany

Accelerating Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage in South Asia in the Era of Covid-19
Syed Masud Ahmed, BRAC University, Bangladesh

The Health and Economic Burden of Sepsis
Tim Buchman, Emory University School of Medicine, United States of America

Universal Health Coverage for Sustainable Development
Roy Small, United Nations Development Programme, United States of America

How Universal Health Coverage Can Climb Up the Political Agenda
Rob Yates, Chatham House, United Kingdom

Two sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next sessions will be ‘Overcoming Silos to Address Infection-Related Global Health Threats’ and ‘The Quality of Healthcare Systems and QI Efforts on Outcomes from Sepsis and Pandemics’ on May 9, 2023.

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Full Release Schedule

  • May 2:

    • S1: Opening Session – Key Success Factors to Address Global Health Threats

    • S2: The Health Economic and Human Burden of Infections and Pandemics

  • May 9:

    • S3: Overcoming Silos to Address Infection-Related Global Health Threats

    • S4: The Quality of Healthcare Systems and QI Efforts on Outcomes from Sepsis and Pandemics

  • May 16:

    • S5: Advances and Challenges by Our Regional Sepsis Alliances

    • S6: Advances in Timely Pathogen and Sepsis Detection

  • May 23:

    • S7: The Benefits of Multidisciplinary Teams in Sepsis Care on the Health Care Facility Level

    • S8: The Potential and Challenges to Intervene with the Immune Response

  • May 30:

    • S9: Biomarkers and Antimicrobial Stewardship – The Synergies to Diagnose Sepsis and to Prevent AMR

    • S10: Lessons from the Pandemic to Fight Common Infections and Sepsis

  • June 6:

    • S11: Understanding and Improving Long-term Outcomes after Sepsis and COVID-19

    • S12: Neonatal Sepsis Platforms and Guidelines

  • June 13:

    • S13: The Impact of Survivors and Family Members to Improve Sepsis Awareness and Advocacy

    • S14: Maternal Sepsis: Why Is It Still in the Top 3 for Global Incidence of Sepsis?

  • June 20:

    • S15: Harnessing the Media to Advance the Global Fight Against Sepsis

    • S16: An Update on Research on Sepsis

Marvin Zick