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Your guide to events at the 79th World Health Assembly.

Dates
18-23 May 2026
Location
Geneva
Sun, May 17 • 6:00pm - 9:00pm

A Safer Childhood is in our Hands: An Evening to End Violence Against Children

Together for Girls, Project Everyone

Sun, May 17 • 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Advancing Health Equity for Bleeding Disorders

World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH); co-hosted by the Swiss Haemophilia Association

Sun, May 17 • 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Health Sovereignty, Financing Reform and Protecting What Matters Most: Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

Co-hosts: Government of Somalia, PMNCH, GLN, EWENE, CSA, PATH, Gavi, UNFPA, UNICEF, Save the Children, World Vision International, Seed Global Health, MSI

Sun, May 17 • 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Digital health wallets for better continuity of care

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, Temasek Foundation

Mon, May 18 • Multi-Day Event

Connecting the Unconnected – HIEx at WHA#79

Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx)

Mon, May 18 • Multi-Day Event

Foreign Policy @ WHA79

Foreign Policy

Mon, May 18 • Multi-Day Event

Geneva Health Forum at World Health Assembly 2026

Geneva Health Forum (GHF)

Mon, May 18 • 7:00am - 9:00am

Measuring What Matters, Doing What Works: PHC & Community Entry Points to Accelerate Maternal Health

Business Council for International Understanding, in collaboration with GE HealthCare Foundation

Mon, May 18 • 7:30am - 8:45am

Epidemics That Didn’t Happen: Launch Event at the 2026 World Health Assembly

Resolve to Save Lives, 7-1-7 Alliance, Gates Foundation, The Pandemic Fund

Mon, May 18 • 7:30am - 9:30am

From Treaty to Action: Empowering African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Through AMA’s Regulatory Innovation Framework

African Medicines Agency, USP, Unitaid

Mon, May 18 • 7:30am - 9:00am

Preventing Malnutrition in the Global South: Large-Scale Interventions to Address Micronutrient Deficiencies

Host: Ministry of Health Indonesia, Co-hosts: Ministry of Health and Population Egypt, Ministry of Health and Mass Media Sri Lanka, and Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Nigeria

Mon, May 18 • 8:00am - 9:00am

Evidence to action: Preventing lead poisoning to save lives

World Health Organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Resolve to Save Live

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