The world in crisis – climate change, pandemic, and war

Medicus Mundi Switzerland Climate deterioration, an ongoing pandemic and war in Europe: the world is currently facing multiple crisis, the management of which challenges societies worldwide and threatens to overwhelm international politics. Each individual crisis and in their mutual impact worsen the determinants of health, such as food security, social and economic development, equitable access to health care and social systems.

Disproportionately affected are the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, including women, children, ethnic minorities, poor communities, migrants and displaced people, elderly people, and people with health vulnerabilities. At this year's MMS Symposium, we will discuss the implications of these crises for the fulfilment of the right to health, how actors in international health cooperation are responding to them, and how politics should best respond to the multiple crises to secure the planetary future for all.

This year, the MMS Symposium will focus on:

Understanding how these crises influence health, the determinants of health and global health and the way we work within it.
Learning how actors in international health cooperation can respond to these crises.
Debating and Exchanging the implications of these crises on global health and how politics should respond to them.

We are pleased to announce our speakers:

Beat Jans, President of the Government of the Canton Basel-Stadt - Openingspeech
Dr. Astrid Knoblauch and Dr. Gulara Afandiyeva, Swiss TPH
Dr. Remco van de Pas, Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP), Berlin
Prof. Blaise Genton, Université de Lausanne, (UNIL); Unisanté
Hafid Derbal, terre des hommes schweiz, Basel
Dr. Alan Schamroth, Calcutta Rescue
Dr. Stuart Vallis, SDC
Dr. Lasha Goguadze, IFRC
Thomas Rodrigues, Enfants du Monde
Dr. Maja Hess, medico international schweiz and Dr. Sherwan Bery, the Kurdish Red Crescent

Programme - PDF

The symposium is part of a long-term cooperation with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Date and Time of the MMS Symposium

2 November 2022; 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Venue:

Volkshaus Basel
Rebgasse 12-14
4058 Basel
Website

Languages

English

Further Information

Andréa Rajman, Netzwork Medicus Mundi Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 22 920 08 08
E-Mail

Fees

Standard Fee: CHF 170
MMS Members: CHF 80
Students: free of charge
Online participation: 50 CHF

Fees Online participation

Standard Fee: CHF 170
MMS Members: CHF 80
Students: CHF 50
Persons from LMIC: free of charge

Covid 19 measures

There are currently no restrictions. However, in view of the increasing number of cases, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) again recommends voluntarily wearing a mask indoors.

02. November 2022 – Volkshaus Basel, Schweiz

MMS Symposium, 2. November 2022