We’re excited to announce that our Sponsored Breakfast and Lunch sessions are now available for a sneak peek! You have plenty of options to explore. Take a look this week to preview the offerings before tickets officially go on sale mid May.
Remember, tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so be sure to act fast once they’re launched! Please keep in mind that attendees are limited to one breakfast session and one lunch session per day, so choose wisely!
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to our sponsors for these amazing sessions, each covering fascinating subject matters. We can’t wait for these events to unfold!
Wednesday Breakfast Sponsored Sessions
Lessons from Lassa Fever for Regional Health Security in Africa
Organised by West African Health Organisation (WAHO)
When: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
What’s included: International Buffet Breakfast
Enquiries: Vivianne Ihekweazu, vihekweazu@nigeriahealthwatch.com
This breakfast session will examine how West Africa’s experience with Lassa fever vaccine preparedness is strengthening broader regional health security systems. Drawing lessons from clinical trial readiness, manufacturing pathways, access planning, financing, and governance, the discussion will highlight how region-led collaboration can build sustainable preparedness capacity for future epidemic threats. Speakers from WAHO, CEPI and national taskforces will share practical insights for advancing resilient health security systems.
Wednesday Lunch Sponsored Sessions
The Final Push: How Next-Generation Tools Could Change the Endgame for malaria elimination
Organised by MMV
When: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room TBC
What’s included: International Buffet Lunch
Enquiries: Caroline Lynch, lynchc-consultants@mmv.org
As countries in the Asia–Pacific move closer to malaria elimination, progress is increasingly challenged by declining global health funding, emerging resistance, climate variability, and fragile health systems. This session explores how these pressures reshape the endgame of malaria elimination while highlighting promising next-generation tools such as long-acting prevention, single-dose cures, and improved diagnostics.
Beyond Silos:
Bridging Health and Security in an Era of Shifting Threats and Investments
Organised by Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
When: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room TBC
What’s included: International Buffet Lunch
Enquiries: David Stiefel, stiefel@nti.org
Preventing, preparing for, and responding to biological incidents is inherently multi‑sectoral, demanding coordinated action across health, security, defense, and law enforcement. Yet historically, biosecurity planning has been siloed, with sectors working in parallel rather than together. This session will convene a diverse group of experts to find common ground on the challenges that fall between traditional institutional mandates. Advancing holistic policy and practice among security, defense, law enforcement, and health communities is critical in an era when health outcomes increasingly depend on defense-sector engagement and funding, while security outcomes increasingly depend on health system resilience.
When: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Room TBC
What’s included: International Buffet Lunch
Email: Marie Deveaux, 7-1-7 Alliance, contact@717alliance.org
Website:https://717alliance.org/impact/awards/
On Wednesday, June 10, the 7-1-7 Alliance will host a lunch to honor the nominees of the inaugural 7-1-7 Awards and announce the winners. The 7-1-7 Awards recognize outstanding leaders and trailblazers who are driving change with the 7-1-7 target and making significant contributions to global health security.
Thursday Breakfast Sponsored Sessions
Dengue & Global Health Security: Are We Prepared for the Next Arbovirus Pandemic?
Organised by Takeda & IFRC-Asia Pacific
When: Thursday 11 June 2026, 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room TBC
What’s included: International Buffet Breakfast
Enquiries: Dr. Nikki Kitikiti, nikki.kitikiti@takeda.com & Dr. Sushma BHUSAL SUSHMA.BHUSAL@ifrc.org
Arboviruses, like respiratory pathogens, carry pandemic potential demonstrating the capacity to disrupt health systems and economies at scale. Dengue is the world’s most rapidly expanding vector-borne disease yet it remains chronically underestimated as a global health security threat. Driven by climate change, rapid urbanisation, and shifting vector ecology, dengue outbreaks are intensifying in scope and frequency, exposing persistent gaps in surveillance, clinical preparedness, and integrated prevention. Dengue is the most tractable entry point for building collective readiness for the next arbovirus emergency. This session hosted by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Takeda convenes regional leaders to examine what a shift from reactive outbreak management to sustained, prevention-first preparedness would require and what it means for the broader global health security architecture.
Advancing Pandemic Prevention: From Risk to Action
Organised by PAX sapiens
When: Thursday 11 June 2026, 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room TBC
What’s included: International Breakfast Buffet
Enquiries: TBC
This session will present a forward-looking approach to pandemic prevention grounded in PAX sapiens’ mission to reduce catastrophic global risks. As part of its work to prevent predictable global catastrophes, PAX sapiens is advancing new systems of collective coordination designed to stop major disease outbreaks before they spread—saving lives and reducing economic and societal disruption.
Working with governments, researchers, and cross-sector partners, PAX sapiens focuses on closing critical gaps across three core areas: technical capacity, sustainable financing, and political will. This session will demonstrate how these pillars come together in practice—bridging risk assessment, operational coordination, and incentive design to create actionable systems for pandemic prevention
Thursday Lunch Sponsored Sessions
Advancing Biological Threat Reduction in Southeast Asia: Supporting the ASEAN Declaration on Biosafety and Biosecurity
Organised by World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
When: Thursday 11 June 2026, 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room TBC
What’s included: International Buffet Breakfast
Enquiries: Keith Hamilton
Email: k.hamilton@woah.org
The session will introduce the “Beyond Silos Project”, which supports implementation of the ASEAN Leaders Declaration on Strengthening Regional Biosafety and Biosecurity’ by enhancing collaboration across the animal health, public health, and security sectors. Participants will receive key regional updates and take part in discussions on emerging risks and opportunities to enhance multisectoral cooperation for stronger biosafety and biosecurity systems.
This event is sponsored by Global Affairs Canada (GAC)’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program under Fortifying Institutional Resilience Against Biological Threats (FIRABioT) project.
Evidence to Action: Informing Biosecurity Decisions in an Era of Emerging Biotechnology
Organised by IBBIS, CEPI, and RAND
Time: Thursday 11 June 2026 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room TBC
What’s Included: International Buffet Lunch
Enquiries: Barbara Del Castello, bdelcastello@rand.org
Rapid advances in emerging biotechnologies bring both promise and risk. This lunch session, co-hosted by IBBIS, CEPI, and RAND, will explore these changes in risk and how current research at these organizations seeks to understand them. Presenters will highlight three complementary initiatives: RAND’s AI-Enabled Biological Tool Risk Index Observatory, CEPI’s Biosecurity Strategy, and IBBIS’ Global DNA Synthesis Report. Please join us for a discussion of biological risk, the impacts of technology, and the future for biosecurity and biosafety. Our goal is to explore how these tools can collectively strengthen global approaches to biological risk assessment and responsible innovation.
Achieving Impact at the Intersection of Primary Health Care and Global Health Security: Leveraging Experiences from LMICs
Organised by FHI360
Time: Thursday 20 June 2024 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: International Convention Centre Sydney, Room C3.6
What’s Included: Sydney Eats – Stand up style lunch of hot and cold items
Enquiries: Bola Oyebanji
Email: ooyebanji@fhi360.org
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the ability of the primary health care system to deliver basic health services to their people in low- and middle-income countries. However, countries with more robust laboratory networks, more effective surveillance, sufficient numbers of trained members of the workforce, and stronger primary health care systems were in a better position to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. While effective preparedness for future infectious disease outbreaks requires investment in both global health security and health system strengthening, efforts will be squandered without coordination, collaboration, and integration of the two.
Objectives:
- Highlight the importance of integration of global health security interventions with the primary health care systems strengthening efforts in LMICs under the larger umbrella of one health approach.
- Discuss best practices, opportunities, and experiences from LMICs.
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