Khalifa E Al Kubaisi, Head of Press Office at Qatar Foundation, addressing the media yesterday. Pic: Salim Matramkot/The Peninsula
World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) is preparing to introduce new projects to benefit Qatar’s healthcare sector in important areas such as services, education and creation of awareness, according to an official.
The projects are likely to begin after the WISH 2016 summit and focus on health conditions such as dementia and autism. “We have a number of projects planned after the summit, that have direct impact on the Qatari population,” said Khalifa E Al Kubaisi, Head of Press Office, Qatar Foundation (QF) speaking to reporters yesterday.
WISH a global initiative of QF will host its biennial summit on November 29 and 30 at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). It bring together thousands of high-level policy-makers, academics, and health professionals to discuss and debate practical, lasting, and innovative solutions to global healthcare challenges.
“WISH constitutes an integral part of Qatar Foundation’s commitment to promoting innovation and to creating solutions that foster productive change regionally and globally. By convening the world’s leading experts and high-level decision makers, WISH aligns with QF’s multifaceted approach to supporting policy innovation for the benefit of populations everywhere, ” said Al Kubaisi.
WISH 2016 will be addressed by four keynote speakers including Professor Dame Sally Davies, England’s Chief Medical Officer, Lawrence H Summers, the Charles W Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, Dr Julio Frenk, Mexico’s former Minister of Health and Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder and Head of Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) at DeepMind.
During the WISH 2016 a research paper and session on autism will focus more on Qatar and also showcase innovation by one of the finalists at the eight session of Stars of Science, the Arab world’s leading scientific ‘edutainment’ reality TV programme. A Samrt Autism Shirt invented by Abderrahim Bourouis of Algeria supports families by providing phone App to remotely monitor children with autism.
The summit will also feature nine research papers that highlight some of the most pressing challenges in global healthcare, including Healthy Populations, Precision Medicine, Investing in Health, Accountable Care, Cardiovascular Disease, Autism, Behavioural Insights, Genomics in the Gulf Region and Islamic Ethics, and Healthcare Workforce.
