16 June 2023: Health & Vaccine Equity Summit Philippines: Speakers will share their narratives of struggles and advances in ensuring access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

Co-organized by the Coalition for People's Right to Health, the People's Vaccine Alliance globally and in Asia, AGHAM), BIRTHS, and the UP Physician-Scientists Association.

I am sharing the publicly posted marketing materials for this event. I have no connection to or with the organizers. This information is simply being posted for the benefit of interested parties who may wish to attend.

Date of Event: 16 June 2023,

Fee: None. Free online or in-person for any interested parties.

From a review of available information about the organizers, this event is likely to be in favor of Covid-19 vaccination. The narration and sharing of experiences during Covid-19 is important to understand what has happened and the direction in which we may be going. Viewing all aspects of what has happened over the past 3 years, from multiple perspectives and approaches can only be valuable. The organizers include:-

• Coalition for People's Right to Health,

  

• The People's Vaccine Alliance globally and in Asia. This group want free and equal access to Covid-19 vaccines for everyone. Their rally call is “end vaccine apartheid”.

  

• Advocates for Science & Technology for the People (AGHAM), more here.

  

• Biomedical Innovations Research for Translational Health Sciences (BIRTHS). I could not find any link to or information about this organization.

• UP Physician-Scientists Association. No public listing found, I did sight a private members only FB group.

The information below is directly copied from the event’s FB marketing materials.

HEALTH & VACCINE EQUITY SUMMIT

On 16 June 2023, Friday, a Health and Vaccine Equity (HaVE) Summit will be held to rediscover and contextualize the inequities that plagued the COVID-19 response globally, regionally, and especially locally. By looking back, this hybrid summit also aims to provide a path forward to truly attaining genuine health equity, solidarity, and self-sufficiency in the Philippines.

Speakers from various fields of expertise will share their narratives of struggles and advances in ensuring access to diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines, apart from forging a more robust health system that is based on the fulfillment of human rights—in particular, the right to enjoy (1) the highest attainable standard of health as well as (2) the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

You can now register for either onsite/face-to-face or online (via Zoom) attendance through the QR codes in the image, or through the following links:

[ONSITE] https://forms.gle/BBo9vxphMrfwXpAh9

[ONLINE] https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZUld...

Health or science advocates, students, scientists, and researchers are all invited to join us at the 7th Floor Plenary Hall of the Henry Sy Sr. Medical Sciences Building of the UP College of Medicine in Ermita, Manila and concurrently via Zoom.

This event was co-organized by the Coalition for People's Right to Health, the People's Vaccine Alliance globally and in Asia, Advocates for Science & Technology for the People (AGHAM), Biomedical Innovations Research for Translational Health Sciences (BIRTHS), and the UP Physician-Scientists Association.

Registration is FREE and lunch will be served for onsite attendees. Feel free to contact us via Messenger or through email (cprh.ph@gmail.com) for any queries or concerns about the event.