Date: Thursday 7 April 2022
Time: 1.00pm – 3.00pm GMT

This event was chaired by Kate Pierpoint, Head of Projects at ILC. Speakers included:

• Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General for Universal Health Coverage and Healthier Populations, WHO
• Garth Graham, Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, Google and YouTube
• Dr John Beard, previously Director of Ageing and Life Course, WHO
• Prof Annelies Wilder-Smith, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, LSHTM and Focal Point of COVID-19 vaccines SAGE committee
• Prof John Weinman, Co-Director of HCL/KHP Centre for Adherence and Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicines “School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences,
  King’s College London
• Karolina Socha-Dietrich, Senior Health Policy Analyst, previously Health Division, OECD
• Prof Julie Byles, Director of the Centre for Women’s Health Research, University of Newcastle Australia
• Emily Allen, Chief Global Advocacy Officer, Home Instead
• Arunima Himawan, Research Fellow, ILC
• Lily Parsey, Global Policy and Influencing Manager, ILC

It’s never too late to prevent ill health. And the health and economic costs of failing to invest in preventative interventions across the life course are simply too high to ignore.

At this event, we launched two new reports on what works in delivering a preventative approach to health in an ageing world; how we can improve take-up and adherence to preventative interventions; what we have learned from COVID-19; and how policymakers across the world need to act to ensure prevention becomes a priority as countries build back from the damage inflicted by the pandemic.

We were joined by a panel of experts from across the world to discuss the findings and what needs to happen next so we can move from consensus to action on prevention.

Find out more about our Delivering prevention in an ageing world programme here.