That’s a wrap! 🙌🏽 While much of #UNGA happens on the big stages, often the best exchanges are the ones that aren’t on the agenda.
It’s been a week of connecting and reconnecting with partners, colleagues and friends across the global health community, exchanging ideas, sharing what we’re learning and, importantly, listening.
It was great to see AI having its moment in the spotlight, being recognised for its potential to help tackle some of our biggest challenges. But just as important was the focus on the responsibility that comes with it. How do we build and deploy AI safely? How do we protect trust? How do we ensure it is equitable, responsible and designed around the people it is intended to serve?
And most importantly, how does this translate into impact? Because technology alone won’t move global health forward. Access, connection to care and partnerships have to matter.
A few thoughts from the week that stuck with us:
💬 “We need to use AI where it adds value — identify where scarce resources are most needed. Don't ask how to fund AI, ask how to fund an ecosystem that allows countries to use AI responsibly.” — Priya Basu, The World Bank
💬 “Measure success by the people who stay in care, not by how many you screen.” — Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Minister of Health, Ghana
💬 “A product alone is not care, it has to be supported over time and integrated into primary care.” — Kammerle Schneider, PATH
💬 “You can't layer tech on the existing inequality.” — Christopher Watler, Center for Employment Opportunities
Lots to take home, lots to build on, and plenty more conversations to come.
Sarah Morris, Cal Neikirk, Wilson Cruz, Jirair Ratevosian, Lindsay Hayden, Anne Aslett OBE, Adam Glick, Mary Pavlu, Nick Pearson, Kellen Eilerts, Nikolaj Gilbert, Mitchell Warren, Lacey Stone, Ashifi Gogo, Michael Nedelman, M.D.
