It is an honour and a pleasure to join you today for this signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between WHO and the Charité.
The Charité is one of Germany’s most research-intensive medical institutions, and it is an honour to join it in partnership for a long-term strategic collaboration to support the work of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.
As you know, I will have the honour of launching the WHO hub later today with Chancellor Merkel. This is to expand the support that WHO gives countries to predict, prevent, detect and respond to risks from known and emerging pathogens.
The Hub will make use of cutting-edge analytical technologies, coupled with insights from timely, high-quality, and high-frequency data sources to allow countries to respond rapidly to disease outbreaks.
The Hub is also a centre for collaboration and research, and will provide a nurturing environment for the brightest minds across disciplines and countries to work on challenging problems facing pandemic and epidemic risk management.
That has never been more important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that trust, partnership and solidarity are essential for confronting shared public health threats.
It is more important now more than ever that we work across borders and across disciplines to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to known and emerging diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential.
Fundamental to our mission at the Hub is the visiting research fellows who will become part of our ever-expanding global network, so that our work is informed by practical, on-the-ground experience.
The WHO Hub will work for the benefit of all populations, based on principles of equity and the right to health.
The Charité will play a vital role in WHO’s work in this honourable endeavour. I look forward to working together with the Charité in the years ahead to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.
Good afternoon Chancellor Merkel, Minister Spahn, Mayor Muller, Dr Tedros and esteemed colleagues,
I’ve spent most of my professional life working with so many others in this room and around the world to protect people from epidemics and other health emergencies.
Together with partners present here today we have faced the greatest Public Health crisis in generations and we are learning important lessons to drive our future actions.
Yes, we must innovate and develop global solutions/goods and share them locally but crucially we must also build local systems and connect them globally in an unbreakable chain of health protection for all the people who inhabit this fragile planet.
Indeed it is this very challenge that brings us together today.
In my experience, three things are critical to an effective response: be ready, be fast and be agile.
We must:
Predict, Prepare and Plan for what may happen We must Detect, Assess and React fast to the earliest possible signal of something happening We must Adapt to what is happening and the reality of an evolving health emergency which is never quite what you expected The better we prepare, the more ready we will be to respond.
The faster we can identify new infectious disease risks, the faster we can respond.
The more adaptable and agile we are the more effective our response will be.
None of this is possible without better data, analytics and insights to improve the speed and adaptability of our response.
Germany has long been a pioneer in this space. In 1848, Rudolf Virchow’s seminal outbreak response to typhus in Upper Silesia was based on collecting and analyzing data about disease and the population infected.
Virchow also knew that public health is about more than just data. He said “Medicine is a social science.”
Those words capture what I’ve experienced during every epidemic response - that the control of epidemics depends on understanding not only the disease, but also the social dimensions of how people react to it.
We’ve seen this demonstrated over and over again during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence embodies the spirit of Virchow’s insight while embracing the contemporary world of ubiquitous data, the extraordinary accessibility of computing power, and an ultra-connected global population in which information spreads even faster than disease.
How do we link all the data that are currently available around the world to improve our public health intelligence? How do we create new ways to analyze this vastness of information, while at the same time ensuring equity of access to these tools? How can we make these insights available for decision makers globally and locally? In short how do we turn what on the face of it is our greatest weakness in the face of epidemics...the CONNECTEDNESS that allows disease and misinformation to spread...into our greatest strength the CONNECTEDNESS that allows us to collaborate, innovate and share data, insights, innovations and solutions
These are the essential questions that the WHO Hub will address with partners from around the world.
The WHO Hub will help develop state of the art analytic tools and predictive models that will take us to a new level in our ability to collect and analyse ever more complex data.
The Hub will link communities of practice around the world to enable better data access and data sharing.
This will lead to better decisions and better outcomes for the people we all serve in the face of epidemic and pandemic threats we will face in the future.
This would not have been possible without the vision and investment of the German Government and is a major step forward as we collectively and collaboratively face future threats to the health and well-being of our people.
I am delighted to be here with you in person – after so many months of video conferences – to sign this Memorandum of Understanding with the Robert Koch Institute.
As we all know, the Robert Koch Institute is one of the world’s leading research agencies, charged with the monitoring and prevention of health threats.
Our two organizations have enjoyed a longstanding technical and scientific collaboration, including parts of RKI being designated as WHO Collaborating Centres, for emerging infections and biological threats, viral hepatitis and HIV, and as part of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, or GOARN.
Today we are taking the partnership between WHO and RKI to a new level, with this Memorandum of Understanding to support the work of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.
The Hub is being launched to expand the support that WHO gives countries to predict, prevent, detect and respond to risks from known and emerging pathogens.
It will make use of cutting-edge analytical technologies, coupled with insights from timely, high-quality, and high-frequency data sources to allow countries to respond rapidly to disease outbreaks.
The Hub is also a center for collaboration and research, and will provide a nurturing environment for the brightest minds across disciplines and countries to work on challenging problems facing pandemic and epidemic risk management.
That has never been more important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that trust, partnership and solidarity are essential for confronting shared public health threats.
The Robert Koch Institute will play a vital role, and I look forward to our two institutions working together even more closely in the years ahead to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.
Your Excellency Dr Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Your Excellency and my friend Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health,
Your Excellency Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin,
Distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends,
Ich freue mich, heute in Berlin zu sein, und danke Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, Bürgermeister Müller, Bundesgesundheitsminister Spahn und den Berlinerinnen und Berlinern für die herzliche Aufnahme und den wunderbaren Empfang.
It is an honour and a privilege to be here today for the opening of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.
I want to start by taking you back to 2015, when the terrible West African Ebola outbreak was just beginning to be brought under control.
As the world gathered in Geneva for the World Health Assembly, questions were being asked about how this could have happened.
There was a guest speaker at the Assembly that year. It was, of course, Chancellor Merkel.
This is what she said:
“The war will only have been won when there are no new infections. In fact, it will only really be won when we are properly equipped to face the next crisis – in other words, when we have learned from this crisis. One lesson that we all need to learn is that we should have reacted sooner. We thus have to ask: how we can do that?”
Lessons were learned from our experience in West Africa that have helped the response to subsequent outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Those outbreaks were brought under control without spreading across borders as they did in West Africa, even though the North Kivu outbreak occurred in a highly unstable and insecure environment, and very close to the border with Uganda.
But the lessons from West Africa were not sufficient to prepare the world for a global pandemic of a respiratory pathogen.
So the advice from the Chancellor remains very relevant.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining crisis of our time. It has taught the world many painful lessons.
One of the most clear is the need for new, powerful systems and tools for global surveillance, to collect, analyse and disseminate data on outbreaks with the potential to become epidemics and pandemics.
Viruses move fast, but data can move even faster.
With the right information, countries and communities can stay ahead of emerging risks, and save lives.
Urbanization, deforestation, climate change and intensified agricultural practices are all increasing the risks of zooneses spilling over into human populations.
At the same time, new technologies are giving us the ability to predict, prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks faster than ever before.
Harnessing the power of these new technologies to save lives is not just an opportunity, it’s an obligation.
As the German saying goes, “Wer rastet, der rostet”. Who rests, rusts.
That is what the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence is all about: leveraging innovations in data science, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other cutting-edge technologies, and fostering greater sharing of data and information, between communities and countries.
No single institution or nation can do this alone. That’s why we have coined the term “collaborative intelligence” to sum up our collective mission.
This Hub will bring together scientists, innovators, policy makers, and civil society representatives from around the world to work across borders and disciplines, making collaborative intelligence a reality.
Of course, the ultimate goal is not just to develop new toys. It’s to save lives.
Our aim is to put the knowledge and insights that are developed here in Berlin to practical use on the ground all over the world.
As you know, there have been several reviews of the global response to the pandemic, with recommendations for countries and for WHO about what we can do to keep the world safer in future.
This hub is one response to those recommendations, filling a gap in the world’s defences and answering the question that Chancellor Merkel asked in 2015: how can we react faster, to avoid the needless suffering and death of the COVID-19 pandemic in future.
For WHO, this is part of our commitment to keeping the world safer, to being the organization the world needs, and to giving countries the information and tools they need to protect their people.
My brother Chikwe is the perfect person to lead the WHO Hub. He brings vision and experience, and will be an excellent addition to our WHO leadership team. Thank you so much for accepting the challenge.
And Berlin is the perfect place to host it, as a vibrant, dynamic, creative and modern city that is the ideal incubator for what we want to achieve, as my friend Minister Spahn said.
My thanks once again to Governing Mayor Müller and the people of Berlin for hosting the WHO Hub, and to the Federal Government for its generous financial support.
So many people have come together and worked so hard, so quickly to make this happen.
I would especially like to offer my profound thanks and appreciation to my friend and brother Dr Bernhard Schwartländer, who has devoted himself to bringing us all to this moment.
As some of you know, Bernhard is leaving WHO to take up a new role with the German government.
And as you all know, Bernhard is a WHO institution, with decades of experience in HIV, as a WHO Representative, and as my Chef de Cabinet for three-and-a-half years, steering the WHO ship through some difficult waters.
His last assignment was to build this new ship here in Berlin. So he knows how to steer a ship, and also how to build a ship.
We are reluctantly saying goodbye to Bernhard. WHO’s loss is Germany’s gain. So he’s not going anywhere still.
My brother, we will miss you – I will miss personally you. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, and we wish you every success for the next chapter of your life and career.
As always I am proud of you, and continue to be proud of you.
===
Excellencies, colleagues and friends,
No one has done more to make the vision of the WHO Hub a reality than Chancellor Merkel.
Under her leadership, Germany has become a leading advocate for global health.
This is not a recent development, or a sudden realisation that health matters in the wake of a pandemic.
Health has been a central theme of Chancellor Merkel’s leadership throughout her tenure.
This began with the 2007 G8-Summit in Heiligendamm, which mobilized 60 billion US dollars for global health.
In 2015, she addressed the World Health Assembly, at a critical moment in global health.
In 2017, in my first week as Director-General, I had the honour of attending the G20 Summit in Hamburg, where under Chancellor Merkel’s leadership, Germany put a very strong emphasis on health and emergency preparedness.
As part of Germany’s G20 presidency, Chancellor Merkel also initiated the first ever meeting of G20 health ministers, which included a health emergency simulation exercise.
In 2019, together with the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, and the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, she also initiated the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All, bringing together 13 multilateral health partners to develop a coherent approach for achieving the health-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the German government moved quickly to expand its financial support for WHO, becoming our biggest donor, and was one of the first supporters of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.
In October last year, I was honoured to speak to Chancellor Merkel, which is when we first discussed the idea for a new centre that would serve as a global platform to enhance global capacity for pandemic and epidemic intelligence.
Which brings us to today. We have arrived at this moment in no small part because of one woman who says what she means, and means what she says.
The first time I spoke to her about the centre, she understood it because she has been advocating for the same. We didn’t need another cycle of discussion to explain or clarify.
I began by reminding you of Chancellor Merkel’s speech to the World Health Assembly in 2015.
She concluded that speech with an appeal, that, “Every single person is vitally needed to fight for the human right to health.”
As usual, she was right. The right to health is not a job for one organization or one leader. It is a job for every single one of us, every single day.
Your Excellency – and I dare to call you my friend,
You have more than played your part. Your leadership, integrity, humility – above all, humility – and dedication are an example to us all. I’m not saying this as DG only, I had the privilege of meeting you when I was Foreign Minister of Ethiopia, and I saw the consistency of your behaviour.
You have served your country with great distinction, but you have also served the people of the world with the same distinction. And I know that whatever life brings you in the months and years ahead, you will continue to serve others, and you will continue to work for the right to health.
Your legacy for global health will be so much more than your name on a plaque on a wall in Berlin. It will be etched in the lives of people all over the world for years to come, who will enjoy healthier and safer lives because of you.
You have my deep admiration, my deep respect, and my deep gratitude.
It is therefore with both pride and humility that I have the honour to present you with the WHO Global Leadership Award, in recognition of your outstanding contribution to the health of the world’s people.
My friends, please join me in showing our appreciation and respect for Her Excellency Dr Angela Merkel.
Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends,
It is an honour and a pleasure to join you today for this signing of a
Memorandum of Understanding between WHO and the Charité.
The Charité is one of Germany’s most research-intensive medical
institutions, and it is an honour to join it in partnership for a long-term strategic collaboration to support the work of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.
As you know, I will have the honour of launching the WHO hub later today
with Chancellor Merkel. This is to expand the support that WHO gives
countries to predict, prevent, detect and respond to risks from known and
emerging pathogens.
The Hub will make use of cutting-edge analytical technologies, coupled with insights from timely, high-quality, and high-frequency data sources to allow countries to respond rapidly to disease outbreaks.
The Hub is also a centre for collaboration and research, and will provide a nurturing environment for the brightest minds across disciplines and
countries to work on challenging problems facing pandemic and epidemic risk management.
That has never been more important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that trust, partnership and
solidarity are essential for confronting shared public health threats.
It is more important now more than ever that we work across borders and
across disciplines to prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to known and emerging diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential.
Fundamental to our mission at the Hub is the visiting research fellows who
will become part of our ever-expanding global network, so that our work is
informed by practical, on-the-ground experience.
The WHO Hub will work for the benefit of all populations, based on
principles of equity and the right to health.
The Charité will play a vital role in WHO’s work in this honourable
endeavour. I look forward to working together with the Charité in the years ahead to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.
Vielen dank.
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Good afternoon Chancellor Merkel, Minister Spahn, Mayor Muller, Dr Tedros
and esteemed colleagues,
I’ve spent most of my professional life working with so many others in this room and around the world to protect people from epidemics and other health emergencies.
Together with partners present here today we have faced the greatest Public Health crisis in generations and we are learning important lessons to drive our future actions.
Yes, we must innovate and develop global solutions/goods and share them
locally but crucially we must also build local systems and connect them
globally in an unbreakable chain of health protection for all the people who inhabit this fragile planet.
Indeed it is this very challenge that brings us together today.
In my experience, three things are critical to an effective response: be
ready, be fast and be agile.
We must:
Predict, Prepare and Plan for what may happen
We must Detect, Assess and React fast to the earliest possible signal of
something happening
We must Adapt to what is happening and the reality of an evolving health
emergency which is never quite what you expected
The better we prepare, the more ready we will be to respond.
The faster we can identify new infectious disease risks, the faster we can
respond.
The more adaptable and agile we are the more effective our response will be.
None of this is possible without better data, analytics and insights to
improve the speed and adaptability of our response.
Germany has long been a pioneer in this space. In 1848, Rudolf Virchow’s
seminal outbreak response to typhus in Upper Silesia was based on collecting and analyzing data about disease and the population infected.
Virchow also knew that public health is about more than just data. He said
“Medicine is a social science.”
Those words capture what I’ve experienced during every epidemic response - that the control of epidemics depends on understanding not only the disease, but also the social dimensions of how people react to it.
We’ve seen this demonstrated over and over again during the COVID-19
pandemic.
The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence embodies the spirit of
Virchow’s insight while embracing the contemporary world of ubiquitous data, the extraordinary accessibility of computing power, and an ultra-connected global population in which information spreads even faster than disease.
How do we link all the data that are currently available around the world to improve our public health intelligence?
How do we create new ways to analyze this vastness of information, while at the same time ensuring equity of access to these tools?
How can we make these insights available for decision makers globally and
locally?
In short how do we turn what on the face of it is our greatest weakness in
the face of epidemics...the CONNECTEDNESS that allows disease and
misinformation to spread...into our greatest strength the CONNECTEDNESS that allows us to collaborate, innovate and share data, insights, innovations
and solutions
These are the essential questions that the WHO Hub will address with
partners from around the world.
The WHO Hub will help develop state of the art analytic tools and predictive models that will take us to a new level in our ability to collect and
analyse ever more complex data.
The Hub will link communities of practice around the world to enable better data access and data sharing.
This will lead to better decisions and better outcomes for the people we all serve in the face of epidemic and pandemic threats we will face in the
future.
This would not have been possible without the vision and investment of the
German Government and is a major step forward as we collectively and
collaboratively face future threats to the health and well-being of our
people.
Thank you.
第三篇
Your Excellency Jens Spahn,
Professor Lothar Wieler,
Dear colleagues and friends,
I am delighted to be here with you in person – after so many months of
video conferences – to sign this Memorandum of Understanding with the
Robert Koch Institute.
As we all know, the Robert Koch Institute is one of the world’s leading
research agencies, charged with the monitoring and prevention of health
threats.
Our two organizations have enjoyed a longstanding technical and scientific
collaboration, including parts of RKI being designated as WHO Collaborating Centres, for emerging infections and biological threats, viral hepatitis and HIV, and as part of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, or
GOARN.
Today we are taking the partnership between WHO and RKI to a new level, with this Memorandum of Understanding to support the work of the WHO Hub for
Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.
The Hub is being launched to expand the support that WHO gives countries to predict, prevent, detect and respond to risks from known and emerging
pathogens.
It will make use of cutting-edge analytical technologies, coupled with
insights from timely, high-quality, and high-frequency data sources to allow countries to respond rapidly to disease outbreaks.
The Hub is also a center for collaboration and research, and will provide a nurturing environment for the brightest minds across disciplines and
countries to work on challenging problems facing pandemic and epidemic risk management.
That has never been more important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that trust, partnership and
solidarity are essential for confronting shared public health threats.
The Robert Koch Institute will play a vital role, and I look forward to our two institutions working together even more closely in the years ahead to
promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.
Vielen dank.
所以中文假消息又是毒运轮编造出来的？
第四篇
Your Excellency Dr Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of
Germany,
Your Excellency and my friend Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health,
Your Excellency Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin,
Distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends,
Ich freue mich, heute in Berlin zu sein, und danke Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, Bürgermeister Müller, Bundesgesundheitsminister Spahn und den Berlinerinnen und Berlinern für die herzliche Aufnahme und den wunderbaren Empfang.
It is an honour and a privilege to be here today for the opening of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.
I want to start by taking you back to 2015, when the terrible West African
Ebola outbreak was just beginning to be brought under control.
As the world gathered in Geneva for the World Health Assembly, questions
were being asked about how this could have happened.
There was a guest speaker at the Assembly that year. It was, of course,
Chancellor Merkel.
This is what she said:
“The war will only have been won when there are no new infections. In fact, it will only really be won when we are properly equipped to face the next
crisis – in other words, when we have learned from this crisis. One lesson that we all need to learn is that we should have reacted sooner. We thus
have to ask: how we can do that?”
Lessons were learned from our experience in West Africa that have helped the response to subsequent outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Those outbreaks were brought under control without spreading across borders as they did in West Africa, even though the North Kivu outbreak occurred in a highly unstable and insecure environment, and very close to the border
with Uganda.
But the lessons from West Africa were not sufficient to prepare the world
for a global pandemic of a respiratory pathogen.
So the advice from the Chancellor remains very relevant.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining crisis of our time. It has taught the world many painful lessons.
One of the most clear is the need for new, powerful systems and tools for
global surveillance, to collect, analyse and disseminate data on outbreaks
with the potential to become epidemics and pandemics.
Viruses move fast, but data can move even faster.
With the right information, countries and communities can stay ahead of
emerging risks, and save lives.
Urbanization, deforestation, climate change and intensified agricultural
practices are all increasing the risks of zooneses spilling over into human populations.
At the same time, new technologies are giving us the ability to predict,
prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks faster than ever before.
Harnessing the power of these new technologies to save lives is not just an opportunity, it’s an obligation.
As the German saying goes, “Wer rastet, der rostet”. Who rests, rusts.
That is what the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence is all about: leveraging innovations in data science, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other cutting-edge technologies, and
fostering greater sharing of data and information, between communities and
countries.
No single institution or nation can do this alone. That’s why we have
coined the term “collaborative intelligence” to sum up our collective
mission.
This Hub will bring together scientists, innovators, policy makers, and
civil society representatives from around the world to work across borders
and disciplines, making collaborative intelligence a reality.
Of course, the ultimate goal is not just to develop new toys. It’s to save lives.
Our aim is to put the knowledge and insights that are developed here in
Berlin to practical use on the ground all over the world.
As you know, there have been several reviews of the global response to the
pandemic, with recommendations for countries and for WHO about what we can
do to keep the world safer in future.
This hub is one response to those recommendations, filling a gap in the
world’s defences and answering the question that Chancellor Merkel asked in 2015: how can we react faster, to avoid the needless suffering and death of the COVID-19 pandemic in future.
For WHO, this is part of our commitment to keeping the world safer, to being the organization the world needs, and to giving countries the information
and tools they need to protect their people.
My brother Chikwe is the perfect person to lead the WHO Hub. He brings
vision and experience, and will be an excellent addition to our WHO
leadership team. Thank you so much for accepting the challenge.
And Berlin is the perfect place to host it, as a vibrant, dynamic, creative and modern city that is the ideal incubator for what we want to achieve, as my friend Minister Spahn said.
My thanks once again to Governing Mayor Müller and the people of Berlin for hosting the WHO Hub, and to the Federal Government for its generous
financial support.
So many people have come together and worked so hard, so quickly to make
this happen.
I would especially like to offer my profound thanks and appreciation to my
friend and brother Dr Bernhard Schwartländer, who has devoted himself
to bringing us all to this moment.
As some of you know, Bernhard is leaving WHO to take up a new role with the German government.
And as you all know, Bernhard is a WHO institution, with decades of
experience in HIV, as a WHO Representative, and as my Chef de Cabinet for
three-and-a-half years, steering the WHO ship through some difficult waters.
His last assignment was to build this new ship here in Berlin. So he knows
how to steer a ship, and also how to build a ship.
We are reluctantly saying goodbye to Bernhard. WHO’s loss is Germany’s
gain. So he’s not going anywhere still.
My brother, we will miss you – I will miss personally you. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, and we wish you every success for the next chapter
of your life and career.
As always I am proud of you, and continue to be proud of you.
===
Excellencies, colleagues and friends,
No one has done more to make the vision of the WHO Hub a reality than
Chancellor Merkel.
Under her leadership, Germany has become a leading advocate for global
health.
This is not a recent development, or a sudden realisation that health
matters in the wake of a pandemic.
Health has been a central theme of Chancellor Merkel’s leadership
throughout her tenure.
This began with the 2007 G8-Summit in Heiligendamm, which mobilized 60
billion US dollars for global health.
In 2015, she addressed the World Health Assembly, at a critical moment in
global health.
In 2017, in my first week as Director-General, I had the honour of attending the G20 Summit in Hamburg, where under Chancellor Merkel’s leadership,
Germany put a very strong emphasis on health and emergency preparedness.
As part of Germany’s G20 presidency, Chancellor Merkel also initiated the
first ever meeting of G20 health ministers, which included a health
emergency simulation exercise.
In 2019, together with the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, and the
President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, she also initiated the Global Action
Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All, bringing together 13
multilateral health partners to develop a coherent approach for achieving
the health-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the German government moved quickly to
expand its financial support for WHO, becoming our biggest donor, and was
one of the first supporters of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.
In October last year, I was honoured to speak to Chancellor Merkel, which is when we first discussed the idea for a new centre that would serve as a
global platform to enhance global capacity for pandemic and epidemic
intelligence.
Which brings us to today. We have arrived at this moment in no small part
because of one woman who says what she means, and means what she says.
The first time I spoke to her about the centre, she understood it because
she has been advocating for the same. We didn’t need another cycle of
discussion to explain or clarify.
I began by reminding you of Chancellor Merkel’s speech to the World Health Assembly in 2015.
She concluded that speech with an appeal, that, “Every single person is
vitally needed to fight for the human right to health.”
As usual, she was right. The right to health is not a job for one
organization or one leader. It is a job for every single one of us, every
single day.
Your Excellency – and I dare to call you my friend,
You have more than played your part. Your leadership, integrity, humility – above all, humility – and dedication are an example to us all. I’m not
saying this as DG only, I had the privilege of meeting you when I was
Foreign Minister of Ethiopia, and I saw the consistency of your behaviour.
You have served your country with great distinction, but you have also
served the people of the world with the same distinction. And I know that
whatever life brings you in the months and years ahead, you will continue to serve others, and you will continue to work for the right to health.
Your legacy for global health will be so much more than your name on a
plaque on a wall in Berlin. It will be etched in the lives of people all
over the world for years to come, who will enjoy healthier and safer lives
because of you.
You have my deep admiration, my deep respect, and my deep gratitude.
It is therefore with both pride and humility that I have the honour to
present you with the WHO Global Leadership Award, in recognition of your
outstanding contribution to the health of the world’s people.
My friends, please join me in showing our appreciation and respect for Her
Excellency Dr Angela Merkel.
scmp有英语新闻跟那中文内容一样，但是那个英语新闻真不真我就懒得去查了，谁知道是在他讲话正文里还是在其他时候的采访里
【 在 chinsome (chinsome) 的大作中提到: 】
: 所以中文假消息又是毒运轮编造出来的？
不奇怪，老谭这种位置，只能是见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话，丫自相矛盾的话多了去了。
最重要的是，中国的事中国决定，谁说都不好使。
【 在 xiaoxu (laoxu) 的大作中提到: 】
: scmp有英语新闻跟那中文内容一样，但是那个英语新闻真不真我就懒得去查了，谁知道
: 是在他讲话正文里还是在其他时候的采访里