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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I herewith draw your attention to the civil society meeting ahead of the World Health Assembly, taking place on Friday this week. The meeting is organized by the Geneva Global Health Hub (PHM and MMI being members of it). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Find the announcement below. Registration is open now. Please register in advance. For technical reasons, last minute registration during the meeting itself will not be possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanks, and hoping to see some of you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thomas, MMI Network</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br><br><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>..................................<br><b>G2H2 Civil society meeting on Friday, 15 May 2020, 15.00-17:30 hrs CEST<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>A World Health Assembly in times of a dual crisis: <br>Covid-19 and the collapse of multilateralism as we have known it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Announcement and programme: <a href="http://g2h2.org/posts/15may2020/"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a> and below<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Zoom registration page: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sn-f1r21RR2GfxxVagZdJw"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Feel free to forward to team members and civil society colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>..................................<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear G2H2 members, <br>Dear colleagues <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>With the WHO at the heart of a fierce geopolitical tension between the US and China, and large in-person meetings banned in Geneva for the time being due to the Coronavirus crisis, it has been decided that WHA73 and EB147 will both be held “virtually”, using video conference technology. Non-State Actors can upload statements but not present them in these proceedings. According to the WHO Secretariat, both meetings will entirely focus on Covid-19 and elections of EB members. Other technical issues are postponed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>As civil society actors, we need to adapt ourselves to Covid-19 uncertainties, but this new (temporary?) normal will hopefully enhance our ingenuity. Since we cannot meet in person for the usual G2H2 civil society meeting before the WHA in Geneva, the G2H2 Steering Committee has agreed to use this opportunity to also convene in the virtual space.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The civil society meeting on 15 May will allow members of the Geneva Global Health Hub and other civil society colleagues to share their views of the World Health Assembly in the current crisis of multilateralism that is accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The discussion will be structured along two (interrelated) thematic fields:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Looking ahead to WHA73: Can the World Health Assembly uphold its status as the most relevant forum to negotiate global public health particularly in a major global health crisis? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Beyond the World Health Assembly: How successfully is WHO defending and shaping its role as the “leading and coordinating global health authority”? Or is the Covid19 pandemic the last straw for this multilateral institution in the middle of a wider crisis of multilateralism? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Each thematic field will be introduced by initial inputs (G2H2 members and/or invited guests), followed by a moderated democratic discussion among all participants who want to contribute. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Despite the challenges of a video conference platform, we hope to safeguard some of the “brainstorming” character of G2H2 civil society meetings, and have therefore set it up as a closed meeting that will not be broadcast and with access to civil society only. The meeting with focus on civil society strategizing and will need registration ahead of the event. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Our discussions will be continued and deepened at a second civil society meeting, on 26 May, based on civil society assessments of the outcomes of WHA73.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The programme of the meeting on 15 May: <b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>..................................<b><br>15. 00 - 16.10 hrs: Welcome, topic and discussion 1<br>Can the World Health Assembly uphold its status as the most relevant forum to negotiate global public health particularly in a major global health crisis?<br></b>..................................<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>After the US President’s attack on the World Health Organization, member states, public health experts and civil society rallied behind the WHO, highlighting and acknowledging the WHO’s role as provider of sound public health guidance in managing the Covid-19 crisis and being much more responsive than in the Ebola outbreak 2014 in West Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>However, national governments have not respected WHO guidance, particularly in the preparedness for, and response to the global crisis once it was declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 31. The existing instrument for dealing with global health emergencies, the International Health Regulations, obviously lacks an enforcement mechanism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>We all are fully aware of the political and economic determinants of health, health systems and health politics. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic, the trend to “politicize” global health policy, in a sense of using and framing it for political gains, has become more overt. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>We might see a WHA73 further dominated and distorted by the polarity (new Cold War?) between the US and China, with the Taiwan issue (proposed resolution requesting Taiwan’s observer status) and the demand for an “independent investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 virus” as another proxy battlefield. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>But we also see an EU proposal for a general Covid-19 resolution that has triggered intense negotiations among WHO member states and a flurry of critical comments and suggestions by civil society and experts on how to deal with this pandemic and practice global solidarity in times of Covid-19, including controversial issues such as access to Covid-19 medicines, vaccines and diagnostics, whilst safeguarding human rights. Hopefully, such urgent policy debates on “what needs to be done” and “how to do it” to overcome the pandemic will remain at the core of the World Health Assembly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:.05pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Leading questions</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>What to expect from the World Health Assembly? And what is the place of civil society?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>What statements / interventions in WHA73 are you planning? <br>(G2H2 members are invited to get in touch with <a href="mailto:info@g2h2.org"><span style='color:black'>Thomas</span></a> ahead of the meeting for flagging their interest to provide a 1-3 Minutes input)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>How to critically assess the “political” in global health? Is the current politicization of the debates helping or hurting WHO’s authority in the global health arena?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=FR-CH style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Panel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Introduction: Andreas Wulf, medico international, G2H2 president<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Guest speaker: Priti Patnaik, journalist (tbc)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Moderation: Mareike Haase, Bread for the World, coordinator of G2H2 working group on WHO and global health governance and financing<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br>..................................<b><br>16.10 – 16.20 h Break <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The chat will remain open<br><br>..................................<br><b>16.20 h – 17.30 hrs: Topic and discussion 2<br>Beyond the World Health Assembly: How successfully is WHO defending and shaping its role as the “leading and coordinating global health authority”? <br></b>..................................<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Multilateralism can be understood as countries’ membership in democratic international (UN) institutions that serve to negotiate and find common solutions to global issues, bind all and particularly the powerful nations, to global agreements and treaties, discourage unilateralism, and give small nations a voice and influence that they could not otherwise exercise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>This UN multilateralism was in a crisis even before the Covid-19 crisis, including in global health, where the entry of competing actors and initiatives has muddied its governance and legitimacy. This development has side-lined, intentionally weakened and crowded out the WHO as the mandated multilateral institution for global public health. Private sector entities are now invited to every multi-stakeholder platform and public private partnership as the uncontested model </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>for<span style='color:black'> solutions to the world’s problems. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The Covid-19 crisis has brought WHO to the forefront of global health politics, raising new geopolitical controversies about the autonomy and policy mandate of this UN specialized agency vis-à-vis other global actors and its member states. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Do these controversies present an opportunity for revived multilateralism with a stronger role of WHO in the global health and foreign policy arena? Or is the “real music” playing to the tunes of EU and G20 together with the World Economic Forum and philanthropic foundations, and with the WHO as mere convener and facilitator (if ever) and the WHO DG only a symbolic figurehead? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Leading questions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>What multilateralism and what WHO are we defending, as civil society? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>How should we address the current shortcomings and cracks of multilateralism, e.g. the dominance of the economic elites, the lack of civil society access, and the uncontested participation of authoritarian regimes?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>What would be the basic elements of a civil society political strategy advocating for international health cooperation and solidarity, democratic multilateralism, and a strong, pluriform, United Nations?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Panel <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Introduction: Nicoletta Dentico, SID, G2H2 SC member<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Guest speaker: Nadia Urbinati, Colombia University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Guest speaker: Ilchheong Yi, UNRISD (invited)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-14.2pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Moderation: Remco van de Pas, MMI Network, G2H2 SC member <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>..................................<br><b>Conference platform and registration<br></b>..................................<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The meeting will take place on Zoom, set up as “Zoom webinar”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Registration for the meeting is open now. <br>Meeting website: </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://g2h2.org/posts/15may2020/"><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>http://g2h2.org/posts/15may2020/</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Registration website: </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sn-f1r21RR2GfxxVagZdJw"><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sn-f1r21RR2GfxxVagZdJw</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Help us to promote the meeting by reaching out to civil society colleagues via e-mail and <a href="https://twitter.com/G2H2_Geneva"><span style='color:black'>Twitter</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Deadline for registration: Friday 15 May, 13.00 hrs CEST. Your registration will be confirmed within a working day (until Thursday 14 May) or within an hour (Friday 15 May). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>..................................<br><b>A closed civil society meeting - and a protected space <br></b>..................................<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The meeting is set up as a protected space for civil society brainstorming and strategizing and will therefore not be broadcast or recorded. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>In the meeting we will request participants to follow Chatham House Rules: information and positions disclosed during the meeting may be reported by those present, but the source of the information may not be explicitly or implicitly identified. So do not quote statements, but feel free to provide general insights into our debate, e.g. via Twitter, using #WHA73.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Contact for enquiries: <br>Thomas Schwarz, G2H2 Secretariat<br><a href="mailto:info@g2h2.org"><span style='color:black'>info@g2h2.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Stay safe and healthy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Spread solidarity, not the virus!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Geneva Global Health Hub<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Thomas Schwarz, Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Route de Ferney 150, CP 2100<br>1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland<br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><a href="http://www.g2h2.org/"><span style='color:#0097A0;text-decoration:none'>www.g2h2.org</span></a> – <a href="mailto:info@g2h2.org"><span style='color:#0097A0;text-decoration:none'>info@g2h2.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>Phone +41 22 920 08 06<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>SMS +41 79 645 01 37</span><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><img border=0 width=356 height=157 id="Bild_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01D6252E.33757F70" alt="logo_G2H2_with-bg_RGB"></span></i><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0097A0;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH'>“We build a strong civil society space in Geneva <br>for more democratic global health governance.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></body></html>