Sunny Sunday - great way to start the UN #BroadbandCommission meeting that will discuss universal connectivity & financing for sustainability and social impact. Universal connectivity will accelerate #Health #ClimateAction & #SDGs. Broadband Commission #ICT4SDG #DigitalDivide #GlobalGoals

#ClimateAction means clean air for our lungs but also better ❤️ health. Did you know #AirPollution💨 is the second leading cause of all #NCDs? The #ClimateAction Summit & #HLM on #UniversalHealthCoverage are connected & need be integrated to achieve #GlobalGoals. #UNGA #HLMUHC

.Broadband Commission #DigitalHealth Working Group on #AI4GlobalHealth kicked off this weekend at #UNGA. #AI offers health systems an unprecedented ​opportunity to transform & redesign from being reactive to become preventative & predictive. broadbandcommission.org/workinggroups/… Novartis Foundation Microsoft

Today, we’re excited to announce the eight #HealthyCities Solver teams selected today at #SolveChallengeFinals: Blue Sky Analytics, @caremotherindia, Faircap, change:WATER Labs (iThrone), OmniVis, @AuratRaaj, salauno Tu doctor de los ojos, and Shape-Up. Learn more: solve.mit.edu/articles/meet-…

Today in #NYC on the margins of #UNGA74 Broadband Commission debates how to achieve meaningful #connectivity4all that is affordable; available; accessible; and relevant #Agenda2030

Opening of the first multi-stakeholder panel for the #HLMUHC. The theme of the panel is #UHC as a driver of equity, inclusive development & prosperity for all. #HealthForAll #UNGA #SDGs

.Ilona Kickbusch calls for drawing attention to the political determinants of #health. “Politicians must make difficult decisions in difficult contexts but still need to fulfil commitment to the social contract. Redistribution, social justice and rights are crucial” #UHC UHC2030

Health Finance Institute & Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & World Obesity discussing how to #BeatNCDs

Starting now in Conference Room 11 - High Level Panel discussion with Ministries of Finance on Fiscal Policies and Financing #UHC - including for #NCDs - with #Barbados #Ukraine #Uruguay World Heart Federation World Health Organization (WHO) UN Development Novartis Foundation #UNGA #HLMUHC #beatNCDs NCD Alliance #HealthForAll

.Douglas Webb at the Healthy Budgets, Healthy People side event at #UNGA: #UHC is beyond the provision of care but also prevention - including through #NCDs - to achieve #HealthForAll #HLMUHC UHC2030 UN Development Ren Minghui 任明辉 World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Heart Federation NCD Alliance

.Ann Aerts, MD at the Health Budgets Healthy People event alongside #UNGA: To achieve #HealthForAll, multisector #partnerships need to go beyond #finance and #health but also include #ICT. #DigitalHealth will not only improve access but also quality of care, efficiency, etc #HLMUHC

.Douglas Webb and Ann Aerts, MD making the case for strong economic cases for #HealthForAll at the Healthy Budget Healthy People side event at #UNGA - in line with today's Financial Times article: Why the WHO needs a chief economist by Ilona Kickbusch and G20 Health & Development Partnership #AlanDonnelly #HLMUHC

Ms Helen Clark Helen Clark Board Chair of PMNCH at the #HLMUHC By funding #PHC governments are investing in service delivery which is closest to the people & this can be built upon to achieve #UHC. Multi-stakeholder & multi-sector approaches are key to #UHC. #HealthForAll

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Our Ann Aerts, MD speaks at the 2019 C3 US-Arab Healthcare and Business Summit, specifically on the Women's Health and Technology panel with ITU_BDTDirector Union for International #CancerControl IBM UNOP Novartis Foundation #UNGA c3summit2019.com

"The approval of the high-level United Nations Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage is a testament of what we can achieve when we work together. It is the recognition that we can do better. That health is a human right. That health must be for everyone" #HealthForAll #UNGA

The #UHC political declaration adoption is only the beginning to realize #HealthForAll. Panelists emphasize focus on people - to evolve services & care around the patient, & to break down siloes between different diseases & stakeholders for full integration. Roche #UNGA #HLMUHC

.⁦Bernardo Mariano Jr.⁩ ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ sharing how ⁦Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus⁩ considers the digital health department as the one determining WHO’s future. Encouraging, as only when digital becomes integral part of every health system, will we reach UHC Novartis Foundation⁩ ⁦Broadband Commission⁩ ⁦

.@SteveDavisPATH on the mindset change required in #DigitalHealth towards patient centricity by shifting 1️⃣ supply to demand driven solutions catered to patient needs/ease 2️⃣ creating solutions for patient self management vs only for care providers Devex Philips #UNGA #UHC

.Amref Health Africa Dr Githinji Gitahi, MBS emphasizes #DigitalHealth to be need-led vs innovation-led for scale. With so many needs, Philips #BichLe suggests using #AI to: identify common needs, automate solutions, & create flexibility in common solutions to account for differentiation. #UNGA