CKD Roundtable — From Resolution to Action: Government Leadership on CKD

This closed-door CKD roundtable will focus on translating global commitments into national kidney health policy, from early detection to guideline-directed medical therapy.

Objectives include:

• Building political momentum for kidney health policy
• Identifying actionable policy levers for governments and health systems
• Using the Make the Change for Kidney Health campaign coalition and evidence to show the impact of CKD on health systems, economies, and the environment

Participants include:

• Ministries of health
• Key external experts
• Patient groups

Speakers under development include:

• Navdeep Tangri, Chair, GloPAKH Medical Advisory Council
• Pattana Promphat, Minister of Health, Kingdom of Thailand, or the Director-General of the Department of Disease Control
• Michel Demare, Board Chairman, AstraZeneca
• Brian Kennedy, Executive Director, Global Patient Alliance for Kidney Health
• A WHO NCD representative leading Kidney Resolution implementation
• Ministries of health from Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Vietnam, Colombia, and Egypt
• HHA Africa ministries of health from Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda
• European ministries of health from Spain, France, and Greece
• ISN
• Patient group representatives