Dr Edmond Fernandes invited as Speaker at Global Partnership Summit 2017
Mangaluru: Dr Edmond Fernandes, Founder and CEO, CHD Group – Center for Health and Development and Member – Health Task Force, DDMA, Government of Karnataka has been invited as a speaker at the Global Partnership Summit (GPS) 2017 to be held at Aerocity, New Delhi from 11th to 14th December. The Global Partnership Summit has evolved from the India Japan Global Partnership Initiative and is a platform to integrate ideologies, projects, initiatives, people and processes. It allows for global partners to share knowledge, resources and expertise and work towards a common objective of establishing inclusivity. GPS intends to converge the needs of today into the viability of tomorrow, thus becoming a formidable platform to take forward the mission of an all-encompassing, holistic development framework.
Dr Edmond Fernandes will discuss the theme on “How to bring 7 billion people under an inclusive healthcare system” at the Summit. Access to healthcare is a global discussion and there are no easy answers, rising disease burden, rural to urban migration and sedentary lifestyle is complicating the processes to achieve universal healthcare. The ability to create additional healthcare resources and service innovation will be the key to creating an inclusive health system.
World leaders from many countries are going to join in as speakers in different themes and the summit will have more than 3000 delegates from around the world. Healthcare, Energy security, Banking and Finance and Education and skill development and infrastructure will be among the leading themes at the summit. The summit will engage Government delegations, Civil Society Leaders, Changemakers, industrialists. The Global Partnership Summit is a vision of India Center Foundation.
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