WHO global oral health meeting

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Wendy was an AMR side meeting host at this event.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene the first WHO global oral health meeting to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) for oral health by 2030. The meeting will be hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand from Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 November 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand.

The overall goal of the WHO global oral health meeting is to reaffirm political commitment by Member States based on the resolution on oral health in 2021 (WHA74.5) and to accelerate and scale up national efforts to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), with a focus on oral diseases to achieve UHC for all by 2030. Furthermore, the WHO global oral health meeting contributes to the preparatory process leading to the 4th UN High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (4th UNHLM on NCDs) in 2025.

The WHO global oral health meeting will comprise a 3-day technical meeting with WHO, national oral health leads, national UHC programme leads and invited experts. This will then be followed by a half-day high-level segment inviting health ministers and senior leaders from non-State actors to discuss and reaffirm their commitments to support the implementation of the Global oral health action plan 2023–2030 and national oral health roadmaps. A number of side events will take place in the margins of the meeting.

It is anticipated that the meeting will be attended by around 400 participants in person.
Period26 Nov 202429 Nov 2024
Event typeConference
LocationBangkok, ThailandShow on map