25.04.2018 / Switzerland
10th World Malaria Day ‘Tour de Suisse’ 17 - 25 April 2018
How ending malaria transforms the world
Zurich 17 April 2018
Less malaria – less hunger
Hauptbahnhof (main hall central station)
Art installation & public event: 11:00–18:00
Organizer: Biovision
Bellinzona 18 April 2018
Healthy children – more gender equality
Palazzo civico (town hall)
Art installation: 11:00–17:00
Public event: 13:30–14:15
Special guests: Marina Carobbio Guscetti, Swiss Parliamentarian & Co-President AMCA; Franco Cavalli, Scientific Director at the Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera italiana (IOSI) & Technical Director AMCA; Cristina Donini, Senior Director Translation Medicines, Medicines for Malaria Venture; Antonio Lanzavecchia, Director of Research Institute in Biomedicine IRB; Andrea Bersani, Vice-Mayor of the city of Bellinzona; Nina Dimitri, singer
Organizer: AMCA Associazione per l’aiuto medico al Centro America
Lucerne 20 April 2018
Better health – more education
In front of the station
Art installation: 11:00–15:00
Special guests: Dr. med. Svend Capol, expert for tropical medicine
Organizer: SolidarMed
Basel 21 April 2018
More innovation – less poverty
Barfüsserplatz
Art installation: 10:00–18:00
Public event: 14:00–14:45
Special guests: Jürg Utzinger, Director Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH); Christian Lengeler, President Swiss Malaria Group; Dirk Ziegler, Novartis; Jan Sültemeyer, Head of Global Innnovation Clariant; Lukas Engelberger, Government Council Canton Basel-City; music from Baye Magatte Ndiaye from Senegal
Organizer: Swiss TPH
Co-organizers: Clariant, Medicus Mundi Switzerland, Novartis, Syngenta
Lausanne 23 April 2018
More climate protection – fewer child deaths
Place de la Palud
Art installation: 10:00–18:00
Special guests: Dominique Bourg, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (TBC)
Organizer: Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), Policlinique Médicale Universitaire (PMU)
Bern 24 April 2018
Less malaria – more equal opportunities
Unterer Waisenhausplatz
Art installation: 11:00–14:00
Public event: 12:15–13:15
Special guests: Rosmarie Quadranti-Stahel, Co-President of the Swiss Parliamentary Group on Global Health; Christian Stucki, Swiss sportsperson/Ambassador for the SRC; Tatjana von Steiger Weber, Deputy Head Global Cooperation (SDC); Nubya, Singer/Ambassador SRK
Organizer: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Red Cross
How ending malaria transforms the world
Place des Nations/Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute
10th World Malaria Day event opening, Place des Nations: 16:00
Art installation: unveiled by Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, Ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Welcome to the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute: 17:00
High-Level Roundtable
Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Prof Awa Coll-Seck, Minister of State, Senegal/ Board Member, RBM Partnership to End Malaria
Dr Kesete Admasu, CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria; former Minister of Health of Ethiopia
Dr Minghui Ren, Assistant Director General of the WHO
Thomas Gass, Ambassador and Vice-Director Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Dr Marina Carobbio Guscetti, Vice-President of the Swiss National Council
Networking reception: 18:30
Generously offered by the City and the Canton of Geneva
Register now for the Geneva event!