The week ahead

Events preview: This week in development cooperation

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been named the new director-general of the World Health Organization at the WHO's 70th general assembly in Geneva, where Devex reporters Jenny Lei Ravelo and Adva Saldinger are on the ground. Check our preview for more events taking place in the coming days.

By Devex Editor // 23 May 2017
Delegates at the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by: L. Cipriani / WHO

Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting May 22:

EVENTS IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS

70th World Health Assembly
May 22-31
Geneva, Switzerland

African Development Bank Annual Meeting
May 22-26
Ahmedabad, India

Innovate4Climate: Finance and Markets Week
May 22-26
Barcelona, Spain

Understanding Financial Education: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next?
May 23
Washington, D.C., United States and online

China-US Action and Cooperation in the New Age of Global Climate Governance
May 24
Beijing, China

UK General Election: Priorities for International Development
May 24
London, United Kingdom

Investing in R&D from AMR to Zika: Laying the Foundation for Sustainable Development
May 24
Geneva, Switzerland

Better Targeting Food Safety Investments in Low and Middle Income Countries
May 24
Brussels, Belgium

EU-US Leaders' Meeting
May 25
Brussels, Belgium

7 Stories to Change the World
May 25
Giardini Naxos, Italy

From Panic and Neglect to Building Global Health Security: Investing in Pandemic Preparedness at a National Level
May 25
Geneva, Switzerland

Global Health R&D: How Can We Best Set Priorities Based on Evidence?
May 25
Geneva, Switzerland

G7 Summit
May 26-27
Sicily, Italy

Child Development in the SDG Era: What are the Big Implementation, Measurement and Research Questions?
May 29
London, United Kingdom

The Think 20 Summit
May 29-30
Berlin, Germany

International Conference on the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme: Sixty Years and Beyond — Contributing to Development
May 30 - June 1
Vienna, Austria

2017 SID-Washington Annual Conference
June 1
Washington, D.C., United States

INTERNATIONAL OBSERVANCES

International Day for Biological Diversity
May 22

International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
May 23

International Day of UN Peacekeepers
May 29

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