Event Information:

• Thu

  21

  Feb

  2019

  Rare Disease Day Policy Event at the United Nations (Second High-Level Event of the NGO Committee for Rare Diseases)

  United Nations Headquarters, New York

  The Rare Disease Day Policy Event at the United Nations will take place on February 21, 2019 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

  The event aims to present a number of activities carried out through 2017 and 2018 within the human rights, health and sustainable development agendas of the United Nations system as well as present and discuss a call towards a General Assembly Resolution on rare diseases. It will take the form of an all-day conference bringing together around 100 participants – from the international NGO community, UN agencies and national governments, academic and research institutions as well as the private sector – interested in collaborating towards the advancement of rare diseases as a global public health priority.

  For more information on this event, click here