Overview
The Inclusive, Sustainable, Prosperous and Resilient Health Systems in Asia and Pacific or the INSPIRE Health Forum 2025 is the flagship event of the Health Practice Team, which will be held at ADB Headquarters from 7-11 July 2025.
INSPIRE will highlight how ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) are enhancing governance, health financing, health infrastructure and systems, human resources for health, pandemic preparedness and response, health regulations, and climate and health actions including addressing communicable and infectious diseases. It will showcase innovations for ensuring gender equality in health, managing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health concern, deploying digital health tools, and responding to aging and other health system issues.
INSPIRE is ADB’s flagship event to spark innovation and drive the transformation of health systems in Asia and the Pacific. The forum will present ADB’s solutions working groups approach in health systems strengthening and universal health coverage (UHC), climate and health, and pandemic preparedness and response. It will underscore the collaboration between ADB health team with education, social protection, agriculture, energy, transport, private sector and other ADB teams. It will emphasize partnerships and coalitions with development partners and the private sector.
Objectives
INSPIRE Health Forum 2025 aspires to have the following impacts in the region: (i) present best practices of DMCs in achieving UHC, pandemic response, addressing climate and health, and improving health outcomes; (ii) share lessons in designing and implementing health system reforms particularly in health infrastructure, human resources for health, health regulations, health financing and digital health; (iii) showcase ADB’s financing and technical support in health systems strengthening, UHC, pandemic response, and addressing climate and health in DMCs; (iv) enable increased development and deployment of innovative health initiatives and solutions; and (v) facilitate increased private sector participation in the health sector.
Target participants
Officials of ministries of health and finance, local governments, and national health insurance programs, health and non-health experts, policymakers, development practitioners, industry leaders and private health providers, health innovators, and other health stakeholders.
Resource speakers
Experts on climate and health, universal health coverage, pandemic response, and capacity building from governments, international development organizations, academe and research institutions, philanthropies, and the private sector.
How to register
Registration to the forum is now open. This is a hybrid forum with registered participants to be informed of their mode of participation as in-person or virtual. Explore the week’s agenda and get a preview of the exciting discussions and insightful presentations ahead.
More Information: ADB Official announcement
- The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025
- Standards for Establishing Snakebite Treatment Centers, 2077
- National Population Policy 2025
- The Eighth Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) Implementation Science School 2025
- Public Health Emergency Management Directive, 2082
