UNICEF officials highlighted the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2025 as an important forum to strengthen global health equity discourse, with more than 4,500 delegates from 54 nations participating in the meet in New Delhi.
The three-day summit (April 25–27), organized at Bharat Mandapam, was centered on "Scaling Access to Ensure Health Equity" with sessions on neonatal health, digital innovation, and climate-resilient healthcare.
A representative for UNICEF said that the summit was a "chance to speak to a large audience", allowing for coordination between governments, NGOs, and academia to tackle health inequities in maternal, child, and adolescent care.
Sessions emphasized "Strengthening India's Newborn Care" and "Leveraging Digital Health for Nutrition" where UNICEF pushed for scalable solutions to decrease under-five mortality and increase access to healthcare in vulnerable populations.
The conference was attended by world leaders such as WHO, UNDP, and Gates Foundation representatives, with India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant calling this decade "India's health decade" to make equitable care a priority.
The discussions also touched upon the contribution of AI-based diagnostics and climate adaptation measures to making South Asian health systems resilient.
