Diagnostics Day 2025

Event Title:                  Diagnostics Day 2025

Date and Time:           21 May 2025 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST)

Location:                     Vieux Bois Restaurant, Ave de la Paix 12, Geneva

Livestream : FIND Diagnostics Day 2025

Speakers and organizations: (speakers subject to change):

Session 1 (09:00 – 10:30): Mr Paul Nuki, The Telegraph (Moderator), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND, Dr Ebere Okereke, Reaching the Last Mile Foundation, Dr Mark Barone, Patient Advocate, Ms Olivia Ngou, Impact Santé Afrique, Mr Zoubir Tabloul, Vital Care, Dr Michel Sidibé, African Medicines Agency, Dr Hatem Amer, Ministry of Health, Egypt

Session 2 (11:00 – 12:00): Dr Els Torreele, Global Health and Innovation, Ms Carol Nawina Maimbolwa, Unitaid, Ms Anouk Petersen, McKinsey Health Institute, Ms Anne-Caroline Benski, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Dr Lindiwe Makubalo, WHO AFRO, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND

Session 3 (12:45 – 14:00): Dr Ayoade Alakija, FIND (Moderator), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO (video remarks), Dr Yukiko Nakatani, WHO, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND, Dr Michael Wilson, The Lancet Commission on diagnostics, HE Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, Indonesia, HE Aden Duale, Ministry of Health, Kenya

Session 4 (14:00 – 14:30): Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND

Session 5 (15:00 – 16:15): Prof Vernon Lee, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore (Moderator), Dr Emmanuel Agogo, FIND, Ms Caia Dominicus, IPPS, Ms Heulwen Philpot, IPPS, Mr Mario Moreira, Fiocruz, Dr Yukiko Nakatani, WHO, Mr Farid Fezoua, IFC, Dr Emmanuelle Soubeyran, WOAH

Key messages:   Almost half of the world’s population does not have access to the diagnostic tests they need. This diagnostic gap disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries.

The purpose of the FIND event is to position diagnostics as the first step in the path to health and an integral part of global health architecture and a key part of pandemic preparedness and response.

Full agenda:                               

9:00 – 10:30   Without diagnostics, medicine is blind: the current state of the diagnostics gap

11:00 – 12:00 Diagnostics for women’s health

12:45 – 14:00 High-Level Meeting on Diagnostics

14:30 – 15:00 Addressing today’s diagnostics challenges for tomorrow

15:00 – 16:15 The next pandemic: what should happen before Day One?

16:15  Closing remarks