Geneva Event

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), together with the Researching the Impact of Attacks on Healthcare (RIAH) Consortium, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), co‑hosted a two‑day workshop at Palais Wilson in Geneva on strengthening data systems and evidence to protect healthcare and the right to health in conflict settings. The meeting brought together humanitarian practitioners, human rights experts, health actors, academics and state representatives to examine how data on attacks against healthcare can better inform prevention, protection and accountability efforts.

The workshop builds on the joint WHO-WISH report “In the Line of Fire” and a High‑Level Roundtable organised under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser and with the participation of WHO Director‑General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the WISH7 Summit in November 2024. It is part of a broader sequence of engagements that includes a session co‑hosted with the Central African Republic at the World Health Assembly in May 2025, a public event at the Qatar Pavilion during the Osaka Expo in June 2025, and a high‑level convening with IFRC and UNICEF at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025.

During the closing session in Geneva, WISH underlined its long‑term commitment to this agenda and confirmed that protection of healthcare in conflict will be a flagship theme under the Global Health Diplomacy track at the next WISH Summit (WISH8), where outcomes and lessons from the workshop will be brought to ministers, diplomats and multilateral leaders.