The 2024 World Health Summit Regional Meeting in the Asia Pacific comes at a critical time in history. With health inequities widening, geopolitical tensions escalating, global health governance under the spotlight and climate-driven health crises arriving with measurable impact across the planet.

As a global health community, we must identify the common grounds from which we can best meet these shifting and complex societal challenges, and we must strengthen the underlying systems and intersectoral partnerships that allow us to stand on them together.

Join us for our opening plenary as we come together to help shape the future of health across Asia and the Pacific. Drawing from their deep regional and global health expertise and leadership, we invite the esteemed guests in this session to frame our conversations for the three days of this historic World Health Summit Regional Meeting.