Ways To Follow The #WHA69 Opening Today

The 69^th World Health Assembly (WHA) opens today in Geneva, with well over 3,000 participants and a record number of agenda items. For the 12th consecutive year, Intellectual Property Watch has a dedicated team on the ground, bringing you informed, timely reports on the action, on the floor and behind the scenes. Below are some other ways to follow the action as well, including a handy list of Twitter hashtags for the week.

The event is being live-streamed this year for the second time, but those looking for more succinct coverage (and to voice their own perspectives) can of course turn to social media.

The Union for International Cancer Control and the Non-Communicable Disease Alliance have put together a Twitter pocket guide to the whos, whats, and hashtags of #WHA69.

While a few hot-button issues and notable contributors are missing—including #FENSA, #Ebola, and yours truly @ipwatch—this guide is a handy starting point.

Intellectual Property Watch gives you year-round coverage of these issues (see our WHO category), and this week has a special front-page section on our WHA coverage. And we published an opening guide to this year’s WHA is available here (IPW, WHO, 18 May 2016).

Stay tuned for an exciting week.