EU Health Summit Time for Action Monday 26 October 2020 PROGRAMME 13:30-13:40 WELCOME, OBJECTIVES AND STRUCTURE OF THE EVENT by moderator Cathy Smith PRESENTATION OF THE EU HEALTH COALITION by co-chairs of the EU Health Coalition 13:40-13:55 Mary Lynne Van Poelgeest-Pomfret, President World Federation of Incontinence Patients Nathalie Moll, Director General EFPIA VIDEO MESSAGE 13:55-14:00 by Jens Spahn, Minister of Health, Germany KEYNOTE SPEECH 14:00-14:10 of Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety 14:10-14:15 PRESENTATION OF BREAKOUT SESSIONS by moderator Cathy Smith 14:15-14:20 BREAK 14:20-15:30 BREAKOUT SESSIONS IN SEPARATE WEBINARS Digital health and Policies for health Healthcare systems Research and innovation health data Moderated by Moderated by Moderated by Moderated by Nick Batey, Nicole Denjoy, Jacqueline Bowman-Busato, Wilfried Ellmeier, EUREGHA Chair COCIR Secretary General EASO EU Policy Lead BioMed Alliance President Paola Tesori Coggi, Ceri Thompson, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Prof. Martin Landray, Special Advisor, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Member of the European Member of the Regulatory National Technological Clus- CNECT H3 eHealth, Well- Parliament, Renew Europe Affairs Committee within the ter on Life Sciences (ALISEI), being and Ageing Group, Romania European Society of Former Director General for Cardiology Health and Consumers, Dr. Silvano Coletti, Melitta Jakab, European Commission Managing Director Chelo- Head Of Office of the WHO Dr. Cristina Bescos, nia Applied Science, Project European Center For Primary Managing Director, Normunds Popens, Innovation Manager Exsca- Health Care located in Alma- EIT Health Spain Deputy Director General for late4CO ty, Kazakhstan Regional Policy, European Sabrina Montante, Commission Gözde Susuzlu, Senior Advisor for EU Affairs, Data Saves Lives coordinator, ISS- National Institute of European Patients’ Forum Health, Italy Marcus Zimmermann- Rittereiser, COCIR Digital Health Com- mittee Chair and Siemens Healthineers 1 15:30-15:35 BREAK Overview of conclusions by breakout sessions’ moderators 15:35-16:05 Pool to trigger debate Q&A with the audience INTERVIEW 16:05-16:25 with Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth VIDEO MESSAGE 16:25-16:35 by Andrea Ammon, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) PANEL DISCUSSION ON A STRONGER EUROPEAN HEALTH UNION AND COVID-19 Dolors Montserrat, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People’s Party, Spain Despina Spanou, Head of Cabinet of Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas 16:35-17:25 Nicola Bedlington, Special Advisor European Patients Forum Rui Santos Ivo, President of INFARMED, National Authority of Medicines and Healthcare Products, Portugal Q&A with the audience Concluding Remarks by co-chairs of the EU Health Coalition 17:25-17:30 Mary Lynne Van Poelgeest-Pomfret, President World Federation of Incontinence Patients Nathalie Moll, Director General EFPIA 2 SPEAKERS Stella Kyriakides European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety On 1 December 2019, Ms. Kyriakides became the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. In the area of health, she is leading the Commission’s work on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, to help improve cancer prevention and care and is in charge of developing a new Pharmaceutical Strategy to ensure that Europe has enough affordable medicines to meet its needs. Her responsibilities also include supporting Member States in improving the quality and sustainability of health systems, creating a European Health Data Space to promote health-data exchange and support research. She is also in charge of ensuring full implementation of the European One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance and working towards a global agreement on antimicrobials. On food safety, Commissioner Kyriakides is leading the new ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy for sustainable food, covering every step in the food chain from production to consumption. Her responsibilities also include ensuring enforcement of animal welfare laws and promoting European standards globally as well as ensuring enforcement of EU laws on food safety and animal and plant health and leading the work to protect plant health, reduce dependency on pesticides and support low-risk and non-chemical alternatives. During the COVID-19 crisis, she has been leading the Commissions work to coordinate the EU’s health response and support Member States to tackle the outbreak. This includes working to ensure that essential goods and services can flow freely across borders, essential medicines and medical devices are available at affordable prices, and leading the EU’s efforts to secure access to safe and effective therapeutics and vaccines. Previously, Ms. Stella Kyriakides worked as a clinical psychologist in the Mental Health Services of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Cyprus in the area of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, from 1979-2006. In 2006, she was elected to the Cyprus Parliament and was re-elected in 2011 and 2016 for the Democratic Rally party, of which she was the Vice-President. In 2012, she was appointed Head of the Cyprus Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In 2017 she was elected President of the PACE, thus becoming the 30th President of the Assembly. She founded the First Breast Cancer advocacy organisation in Cyprus, Europa Donna - Cyprus where she served as President from 2000-2015. She was also President of the European Breast Cancer Coalition Europa Donna. She received many awards in recognition of her relentless efforts and work in support of women’s rights, children and patients’ rights and had numerous publications, research contributions/articles on children related matters and cancer in Cyprus and other European countries. 3 Mariya Gabriel Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel is the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport. Under her leadership the new Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and the cultural strand of Creative Europe programmes (2021-2027) will be defined and implemented. Her main priorities are excellence in research, innovation and education (ERA, EEA, EIA) ; tackling the R&I divide in Europe ; Europe as a leader in strategic innovation areas through the digital and green transition, with a particular attention to young people and regions. “No one left behind” and “Think out of the box” are her mottos. Between 2017 and 2019, Mariya Gabriel was European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. She proposed the new Digital Europe programme, worked on EU Strategy on AI, disinformation online, cybersecurity and launched the EuroHPC strategy. She has extensively engaged with external EU partners to enhance digital cooperation, in particular with the Western Balkans and Africa. She was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009, 2014 and 2019. Mariya Gabriel is First Vice-President of the European People‘s Party (EPP), and since 2012 Vice-President of EPP Women. Commissioner Gabriel is board member of the United Nations youth programme Generation Unlimited (GenU). She has been ranked among the 50 most influential women in Europe in the field of cybersecurity by the leading European cybersecurity magazine SC Media UK (2019). Mariya Gabriel is also known for her involvement in the fight for gender equality. Amongst others, she received the prestigious Italian prize “Golden Apple” for highest achievements for women. At the European Parliament, she was awarded twice the „MEP of the year“ - in 2016 in the Development category, and in 2013 in the Gender equality category. She holds a Master‘s degree in political sciences and international relations from the Institute of Political Studies (Bordeaux, FR) and a Bachelor’s degree in Bulgarian and French Languages from “Paisii Hilendarski” University (Plovdiv, BG). She also graduated from “Dr.Petar Beron” Language High School (Kyustendil, BG). 4 Jens Spahn Minister of Health, Germany Jens Spahn is a bank clerk and political scientist. Born in Ahaus in 1980, he was first elected to the German Bundestag in 2002, representing the Steinfurt I/ Borken I constituency. He served as health policy spokesperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2015 and, from July 2015 to March 2018, as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance. On 14 March 2018, he was sworn in as Federal Minister of Health. Spahn joined the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU) in 1995 and the CDU in 1997. He has been chairperson of the Borken county branch of the CDU since 2005. In 2012, he became a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the CDU and was elected to the party’s Presidium at the CDU’s federal conference in Cologne in 2014. From 2013 to 2017, he served as chairperson of the German-Netherlands Parliamentary Friendship Group. He is the editor of the book „Ins Offene - Deutschland, Europa und die Flüchtlinge“ (Into the Open – Germany, Europe and the Refugees) that was published in November 2015. Together with two physicians, he wrote the book „App vom Arzt – Bessere Gesundheit durch digitale Medizin“ (App your health – the benefits of digital medicine), which came out in September 2016. Andrea Ammon Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Dr Andrea Ammon, MD, MPH, was appointed Director of ECDC in June 2017. From April 2011 to April 2015, Andrea Ammon was Deputy to the Director and Head of Unit for Resource Management and Coordination. From May 2015, she was ECDC’s Acting Director. Andrea joined ECDC as the Head of the Surveillance Unit in 2005. The unit was responsible for developing The European Surveillance System (TESSy), implementing a long-term surveillance strategy for the European Union (EU), evaluating the Dedicated Surveillance Networks (DSN), performing step-by-step transfer of DSN activities to ECDC, revising the EU case definitions and producing an Annual Epidemiological Report on infectious diseases in the EU.