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.
Registration will be available exclusively through the GHS2026 app (launching Mid-May). To ensure a smooth process, please do not reach out to organizational contacts for registration assistance. 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, Room 410
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 405
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 410
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 401-402
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 410
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 405
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, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room 405
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 410
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.
From Transaction to Transformation Private Sector Partnerships That Build Pandemic Preparedness
Organised by PhRMA and The Pandemic Fund
Time: Thursday 11 June 2026 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room 401-402
What’s Included: International Buffet Lunch
Enquiries: Larry Kerr, lkerr@pharma.org
Pandemic preparedness cannot be built by governments alone – and it cannot be outsourced. Private entities create the economic activities that underpin healthy societies whether by making the products that people enjoy or the services that improve their lives. The central question is whether partnerships with the private sector help countries build capabilities that last: surveillance systems that reach further, One Health platforms that connect human, animal, and environmental risk, data systems that inform decisions, and build research, development and manufacturing capabilities to deliver health products to those who need them.
This lunch session moves beyond the familiar case for private sector engagement and asks a harder question: what makes a partnership transformational rather than merely transactional? Through practical cases, this session will examine how governments, the Pandemic Fund, and private sector partners can design co-financing arrangements that catalyze capacity building, strengthen accountability, and make the fiscal case for sustained preparedness investment.
Unlocking Cobenefits for Health Security and Surveillance
Organised by Gates Foundation and rani
Time: Thursday 11 June 2026 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Room 302-303
What’s Included: International Buffet Lunch
Enquiries: Courtney Carson, courtney.carson@rani.co
The biological threat landscape is evolving rapidly, with increased likelihood of naturally occurring infectious diseases paired with growing threats from biological warfare and misuse of biotechnology. As geopolitics influence a constrained fiscal landscape, increased defence spending, and shrinking development assistance, it is clear that we must reassess our approach to disease surveillance and promote investments with co-benefits towards a broader conceptualization of security. This lunch dialogue will unpack practical examples of how to advance co-benefit investments for disease surveillance by working more purposefully across traditional silos of health, biosecurity, and defense – especially at the civil-military interface.
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