Dr. Charles Dela Cruz
Director, Acute Lung Injury and Infection Center, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Christopher Murray
Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Dr. Denis Serrano
St Luke's Medical Center, Taguig City, Philippines
Dr. Elita Jauneikaite
Advanced Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Dr. Imelda Mateo
President, Philippines Colleague of Physicians
Professor Janeth Samson
President of the Philippine College of Chest Physicians
Dr. Joanne Wildenbeest
Assistant Professor, UMC Utrecht
Dr. Marcos Restrepo
Medical Director - Medical Intensive Care Unit - South Texas Veterans Health Care System Audie L. Murphy Division
Dr. Menaldi Rasmin
Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Universitas Indonesia
Professor Michiaki Mishima
Past-President, Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)
Dr. Mihoko Kashiwakura
Head of East Asia Relations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Mohsen Naghavi
Professor of Health Metric Science, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Dr. Natashia Crowcroft
Senior Technical Advisor, Measles and Rubella Control, WHO
Dr. Padmini Srikantiah
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Saima Wazed
Regional Director World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia
Dr. Teodoro Herbosa
Minister of Health, Philippines
Professor Vegloure Maguinsay
President, Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (PSMID)
Dear Colleagues, Friends, and General Public
It is a great pleasure –as the Global Conference Chair– to welcome you to the 3rd Global Conference for World Pneumonia Day, which takes place on November 10th, 2023 in Lima, Peru.
Pneumonia is the world’s biggest infectious killer, claiming 2.5 million lives, including 672,000 children under five years, in 2019 alone. That is one person dying every 13 seconds. Yet pneumonia remains a neglected disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly placed respiratory tract infections at the centre of public health. In 2021, the estimated burden of deaths from respiratory infections, including COVID-19, was a massive 6 million.
With the theme “Reducing the burden of pneumonia in the Americas”, the 3rd Global Conference for World Pneumonia Day will explore the impact of pneumonia in a region where 323,000 people are dying each year, including 20,700 children under five years of age.
Pneumonia is a preventable disease. Unless we take action now to reduce pneumonia deaths, and with a high risk of another respiratory infection pandemic, millions more adults and children will die from pneumonia over the next decade.
Dr. Catia Cilloniz
Chairman of the 3rd Global Conference for World Pneumonia Day
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