The event served as a forum to begin the conversation on financing the remaining gaps in access to medical oxygen.
- It launched the world's first Global Oxygen Strategic Framework and Investment Case, 2025-2030.
- It highlighted how oxygen prioritization can help shape global, regional, and national policies—including the development of costed oxygen roadmaps—toward achieving health-related SDG targets and ensuring pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.
- The roundtable discussion with donors, multilateral agencies, governments, and industry stressed oxygen prioritization as a key step toward achieving universal health care and ensuring pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.
To learn more about the spotlight on oxygen during the World Health Summit, see the Equitable Access to Medical Oxygen, Global Health Lab where the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security previewed the findings of its two-year Commission.
Other event resources
- Meeting slides
- Photo gallery (When publishing photos, please use the following photo credit: Maik Schulze, MIKA-fotografie | Berlin)
- Global Oxygen Strategic Framework and Investment Case, 2025-2030
- Global Oxygen Alliance press release
Event summary
The side event was divided into two parts, high-level statements and a roundtable discussion, with opening and closing remarks. See below for more details.
Opening remarks
The audience was welcomed by the Chief Executive Officer from PATH, and opening remarks were given from the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Development from the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEFA),
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High-level statements
These statements were made by the Executive Director of The Global Fund, the Executive Director of Unitaid, and the Executive Head of The Pandemic Fund at the World Bank. This included the launch of the world's first Global Oxygen Strategic Framework and Investment Case, 2025-2030. See below for highlights from their remarks.
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Moderated roundtable discussion
The roundtable was moderated by the Coordinator of the Every Breath Counts Coalition and the Global Program Leader of Market Dynamics at PATH. The discussion stressed oxygen prioritization as a key step toward achieving universal health care and ensuring pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. Roundtable participants included USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Asian Development Bank, PAHO, UNICEF, Africa CDC, WHO, AirLiquide, Novair, Unitaid, The Global Fund, Grand Challenges Canada, and the Global Oxygen Alliance. See below for highlights from their remarks.
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Multilateral organizations
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Industry
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Closing remarks
The event was closed by the Minister of the Embassy of Japan in Germany. See below for highlights from his remarks.
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