World Health Assembly side event: From Plan to Impact 2025 report launch

ADI is delighted to invite our network for the launch of our new From Plan to Impact report, taking place as a side event at the World Health Assembly at 18:00 (CEST) 21st May 2025 (Online and in person). A drinks reception will be held from 17:30 - 18:00 (CEST) for those joining us in-person.

2025 will prove to be a pivotal year, with the World Health Assembly convening for the 78th meeting that will include a crucial decision on whether to extend the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Action Plan on the public health response to dementia, currently due to expire in 2025. ADI has been leading on the call for a vital 6-year extension, to 2031.

ADI is pleased to share our growing and high-profile panel for our crucial upcoming World Health Assembly side event for the launch of From Plan to Impact.

This event will be chaired by:

• Paola Barbarino, CEO, Alzheimer's Disease International

Our panellists include:

• Her Royal Highness Princess Muna Al Hussein of Jordan

• Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, Government of the Republic of Indonesia

• Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari, Minister of Health, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
  
  
• Jozef Šuvada, Member of the Executive Board, World Health Organization

• Dr Tarun Dua, Head of the Brain Health Unit, World Health Organization

• Conny Helder, former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Government of the Netherlands

• Joanne Pike, President and CEO Alzheimer’s Association, United States

• Maribel Campo, General Director of the State Reference Center for Alzheimer’s and other dementias of the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services, The Government of Spain

• Yoshimasa Tosaka, Director for Dementia Strategy, Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, The Government of Japan

• Friederike De Maeyer, Carer and Chairwoman of Board, Demenz Selbsthilfe Austria

Back in 2017 all 194 WHO Member States unanimously adopted the dementia Global Action Plan but a difficult intervening period, including COVID-19, multiple humanitarian and financial crises, means that only around 42 governments have so far been able to commit and develop a national dementia plan. There are currently more than 55 million people living with dementia, a figure set to almost triple by 2050. Dementia will also be the 3rd leading cause of death by 2040. At the pivotal moment, with the approval of the first ever disease modifying treatments, breakthroughs in diagnostics and research showing that up to 45% of dementias could be delayed or even prevented, we must retain this global plan. It is essential in ensuring that dementia remains a global health and care priority.

In this context, ADI is launching an edition of From Plan to Impact reflecting on progress, barriers, solutions and new momentum. We will bring together a leading panel of experts, including from the WHO, key ministries, research, treatment, care and policy; with the voice of lived experience at the heart of the panel.

You can join us in-person in Geneva, Switzerland, at the InterContinental Hotel OR online. Both audiences will have a chance to put your questions to our panel as we endeavour to secure this truly vital global action plan.