THET’s 2024 Annual Conference

THET’s Annual Conference is the major global health event bringing together the Health Partnerships community and featuring high-level decision makers and internationally recognised experts and leaders, to find solutions and share experiences to advance universal health coverage.

This year’s conference is especially significant, taking place in the wake of the UN General Assembly’s Summit of the Future and the High-Level Meeting on Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR). The conference will engage deeply with the theme of transformative change, focusing on the renewal of multilateral action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the health-related SDG, which is currently in jeopardy.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the health and well-being SDG, are in ‘peril’. This year’s THET Conference takes place shortly after the UN General Assembly’s Summit of the Future. At a time of much-needed transformative change, it is geared at renewal of multilateral action to reach the SDGs, tackling emerging threats, ensuring no is one left behind and promoting appropriate use of digital technology. This alongside the UN High-Level Meeting on Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) aimed at shoring up efforts to address the new pandemic.

Nearly half the world’s population voted in 2024, with newly elected governments around the world offering a critical juncture for major shifts in global systems including health systems. The THET Conference will put a spotlight on harnessing this potential for change, and accounting for these events. It will particularly focus on reinvigoration of UK leadership for effective global cooperation, and collective solutions.

The first day of this year’s THET Conference will explore the global health context and architecture, the UK’s contributions and commitments to global health, with reflection on the outcomes of the Summit of the Future and the High-Level Meeting on AMR. It will consider how working with national governments and actors, and enhanced collective efforts can build health systems and workforce, with a critical role for the UK and a globally engaged NHS.

The second day will focus on solutions, on positive stories and experiences from Health Partnerships including diaspora-led Health Partnerships, and how they are contributing to tackling global health inequities. There will be a strong emphasis on evidence and learning to improve effectiveness, and innovations, and in alignment with the SDGs and Summit of the Future, with a particular focus on leaving no one behind.

As with previous THET Conferences, there will be discussion around the mutual benefits and interests of investing in global health and Health Partnerships for health systems, health workforce and access to health for all, in the UK and everywhere.