Prepping for future pandemics, medical innovation and mental health top agenda

Prepping for future pandemics, medical innovation and mental health top agenda

DUBAI: – The COVID-19 pandemic that revealed the strengths and weaknesses of our global health system will underpin much of the conversation at Expo 2020 Dubai’s upcoming Health and Wellness Week. Stakeholders from across the global health ecosystem will gather to highlight and progress towards resilient health care systems fit for all.

The Theme Week (27 January - 2 February), held in association with the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) and the World Health Organization (WHO), will explore the relationship between mental and physical wellness, and the enabling role of quality access to health care and technology in reaching the last mile and building healthy societies.

Expo’s eighth Theme Week, the event will comprise various panel discussions across the site, including the Health and Wellness Business Forum on 1 February at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo 2020.

Her Excellency Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General, Expo 2020 Dubai, said: “For us to be truly healthy, we must also be happy – because these two states of being are connected, deeply and inextricably so. If we do not come together to design an inclusive, crisis-proof global health system which transforms the way we