Doha, Qatar – Well being professionals, policymakers, teachers and authorities officers from the world over joined the 2022 World Innovation Summit for Well being (WISH), which opened within the Qatari capital, Doha, underneath the theme: “Therapeutic the Future”.
Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairperson of Qatar Basis for Schooling, Science and Group Improvement (QF), opened the tenth version of the worldwide summit on Tuesday highlighting that huge sporting occasions such because the FIFA World Cup 2022 can “encourage” individuals in Qatar and the world over to “rebuild healthcare techniques”.
“WISH has all the time been a summit of massive concepts. This 12 months our themes are many, with one overarching objective – a seek for options to allow all of us to reside balanced, protected and wholesome lives,” Sheikha Moza mentioned in her opening remarks.
“That is the place sports activities and train play an enormous position, as participation is limitless by age or class, however open to all. Massive sporting occasions have all the time been a supply of inspiration; motivating the State of Qatar to host the FIFA World Cup, respiratory new life into our nation. Occasions resembling these can encourage us all, right here in Qatar and the world over, to rebuild our healthcare techniques, making them strong and accessible to all.”
Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of Tanzania, Jeannette Kagame, the primary woman of Rwanda and Dr Fatima Maada Bio, the primary woman of Sierra Leone, in addition to ministerial delegations from 16 nations, together with these from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, attended the opening ceremony.
The keynote speaker on the opening ceremony was Dr Noubar Afeyan, co-founder of Moderna, the corporate that developed a COVID-19 vaccine.
“The efforts of all of us on this room to advance human well being are happening in opposition to the backdrop of what we name a well being care system, however in actuality is a sick care system. We spend an infinite period of time, effort and cash treating individuals as soon as they’re sick, relatively than making an attempt to maintain them wholesome,” mentioned Afeyan, who’s founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a US-based life sciences enterprise capital firm.
“By ready for illness to manifest, prices are increased, stopping many from accessing care and outcomes are worse. Early detection that pre-empts illness or reverses or manages a pre-disease situation might supply an answer to healthcare inequities. We name this preemptive well being: the applying of modern organic sciences and digital expertise to conventional public well being objectives,” he mentioned.
Talking within the context of the creation of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, he emphasised the position of innovation and creativeness in creating breakthrough leaps in biotechnology.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary this 12 months, WISH’s 2022 version is the primary main in-person gathering since 2018. It’s an initiative of Qatar Basis for Schooling, Science and Group Improvement (QF).