Advocacy Events and Initiatives
This section includes links to side events, webinars, presentations, and reports from IAHPC delegations to mettings of UN organizations.
2026 Advocacy Events and Initiatives
79th World Health Assembly
May 18, 2026
- IAHPC Led Constituency Statement Emergency, Critical, Operative Care
- Collected IAHPC Individual Statements on Primary Health Care, Emergency Care, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Call for inputs: general framework, architecture, and guiding principles of a legally binding instrument on the human rights of older persons
Submission of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
World Health Day Interfaith Webinar
April 9, 2026
Faith in Palliative Care (Part 2)
69th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- Recording of IAHPC Side Event: "Ten Years Since UNGASS New Tools to Help Member States Implement Their 2016 Outcome Document Commitments on Controlled Medicines
- Opening Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Matilda Alomatu Osei-Agyeman (Ghana)
- Professor Lukas Radbruch Presentation IAHPC Side Event
- Katherine Pettus presentation for IFMSA/Young Doctors Network side event.
- Katherine Pettus presentation Rome Consensus side event: "Evidence based advocacy and civil society support for legitimate policymaking."
- IAHPC statement on Agenda Item 5d. Access to internationally controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes
- IAHPC Conference Paper on Access to Controlled Medicines: Title: Controlled medicines for children’s medical needs: A vulnerable population in need of increased global priority and targeted interventions
Intergovernmental Working Group Binding Convention Older Persons
African Christian Health Association Conference
Madagascar, February 2026
- IAHPC Presentation to Implementing the Religions of the World Charters for Palliative Care
- Dr Obanjungla: Churches as Foundation for Palliative Care
158th WHO Executive Board Meeting
February 2-8, 2026
- Report: G2H2 Debate ECO Strategy WHO EB158
- IAHPC One-minute statements on Primary Health Care, WHO's Work in Emergencies, and Emergency, Critical, Operative Care (ECO) Strategy.
- IAHPC Policy Debate on Emergency, Critical, and Surgical Care (ECO) on agenda item for WHO EB158/11
- IAHPC Advocacy Notes on ECO Strategy, Primary Health Care, Health in Emergencies, and Rare Diseases
34th World Day of the Sick
February 11, 2026
- World Day of the Sick Report
- See recording of the webinar: Bearing the Pain of the Other: A Call to Compassion in Care
- Address from the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life to the Organizers and Participants of the Webinar "Bearing the Pain of the Other: A Call to Compassion in Care"
- WDS concept note
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