Swiss TPH Symposium: Global Health in the 21st Century
Though much progress has been made in improving global health, many new obstacles have emerged. On 28-30 June 2021, Swiss TPH hosted a virtual symposium 'Global Health in the 21st Century', which brought together experts from the public, private, non-profit and governmental sectors to discuss the pressing global health issues of our time. Swiss TPH hosted their 45th symposium this year, entitled Global Health in the 21st Century. The virtual symposium had over 500 registered guests from the public, private, non-profit and governmental sectors, who all came together to engage in conversation around pressing global health issues. Topics ranged from health systems policy and practice, to the COVID-19 vaccine development and roll-out. Nicole Probst Hensch, Head of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH opened the symposium with reflections on the role of science during the pandemic: ''Researchers often grow up having to be the expert and compete with others to be the best, but what the pandemic has shown us is that collaboration and public and private partnerships is everything.'' Within the first session of the symposium, experts hosted a round of speed talks on topics such as infectious and chronic diseases, antibiotic resistance, malaria control, tuberculosis, HIV and the role of migration in disease transmission. Julia Bielicki from the University Children's Hospital Beider Basel spoke on antibiotic resistance: ''My feeling is that antibiotics is a bit of a mountain, especially in lowand middle-income countries where it is a major challenge for many patients.
