Livestream Starts Soon: Official Launch of the '2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis' at the German Parliament

Update September 10: The livestream will start soon, at 15:30h CEST (Berlin) on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. You can watch it embedded above or directly on YouTube with live comments.

Original article:

The Global Sepsis Alliance is delighted to announce that the ‘2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis’ will be officially launched at the German Parliament on September 10, 2024, starting at 15:30h Central European Summer Time (Berlin).

This historic event was made possible through the leadership of Prof. Dr. Andrew Ullmann, the Global Health Sub-Committee Chair in the German Bundestag, and continued strategic partnership with the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, the Virchow Foundation, and the Sepsis Stiftung.

We are honored that Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – Director-General of the World Health Organization – will deliver a special video message to the meeting participants. Dr. Tedros and Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, the German Federal Minister of Health, will also extend Patronage to the 2024 World Sepsis Day campaigns convened in Berlin and globally. 

Over 50 representatives from sepsis stakeholders worldwide will attend the launch event, including patients and families, public institutions, academia, the private sector, and civil society.

The central piece of the meeting would be testimony from Mariah McKimbrough, an artist and sepsis survivor living in Nuremberg who has recently joined the Sepsis Stiftung as its Art Director.

Prof. Konrad Reinhart, Founding President of the GSA, and Dr. Mariam Jashi, CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance and a former Member of Parliament of Georgia, will be joined by the following distinguished speakers and participants:

  • Stefan Schwartze, Federal Government Commissioner for Patients

  • Members of the Health Committee and Global Health Sub-committee of the German Bundestag 

  • Mr. Roland Göhde, Co-founder and CEO of the Virchow Foundation and CEO of the German Health Alliance 

  • Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe (Video Address)

  • Prof. Dr. Axel R. Pries, President, World Health Summit

  • Dr. Rudi Eggers, Director, Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization

  • Prof. Djillali Annane, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

About the 2030 Global Agenda for SepsiS

Dr. Mariam Jashi will present the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis as the first multi-year global strategy developed under the leadership of the Global Sepsis Alliance and with the engagement of patients and families affected by sepsis, as well as different stakeholders from national, regional, and global levels.

More than 70 partner and member organizations of the Global Sepsis Alliance and its Regional Sepsis Alliances across Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Latin, and North America participated in the strategic planning dialogue around the 2030 Agenda. The process included multi-stakeholder discussions in parallel to the UN General Assembly Session in September 2023 in New York, the World Health Summit in October 2023 in Berlin, and the World Health Assembly in May 2024 in Geneva. The face-to-face meetings were followed by rounds of online discussions and consolidation of the final strategic document.

How important is the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis?

  • We continue losing 13 million children, women, and men every year to sepsis and yet, sepsis is practically invisible in global health dialogue and architecture

  • 7 years after the adoption of the historic World Health Assembly Resolution, less than 10% of the UN Member states have prioritized sepsis

  • Sepsis affecting almost 50 million people annually needs urgent and adequate political attention and investments from national governments, international development aid, global public-private partnerships, private sector, and innovative funding

  • We need to continuously raise awareness of sepsis in our families and communities, and prioritize patient-centered sepsis policies in every country, every region, and globally

  • We have to substantially expand R&D investments for sepsis innovations. We need new and more effective vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, care and rehabilitation commodities, and AI-enabled solutions to timely detect and provide time-critical, life-saving treatment

  • Sepsis-related data is scarce, especially in low and middle-income countries, that bear 85% of the global sepsis burden. We need more and better quality of data and stronger accountability mechanisms for governments and other key stakeholders

  • Finally, we have to strengthen community and health-system capacities for sepsis response during the peaceful development as well as the Pandemics, armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and climate change

The 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis through its 5 strategic pillars, presents a concrete vision of how to overcome the above challenges and gaps at policy, institutional, and community levels.

Through this document, we have a unique opportunity to make sepsis the next success story in global health and save millions of children, women, and men.

Please join us in celebrating the first global strategy and supporting the successful implementation of the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis.

For more details, please see the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis and join the livestream on September 10.

Marvin Zick