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Experts come together to foster collaborative solutions for global health The Global Hygiene Symposium, being held in Singapore from 6th to 8th December 2023, will feature world-renowned experts on hygiene and global health as speakers across its plenary and breakout sessions. The symposium, organized by Chatham House and Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI), will bring together policymakers, researchers, and programme practitioners from a range of fields to help shape the future of hygiene and global health. Hygiene, water supply and sanitation specialist Clarissa Brocklehurst has been confirmed as the Facilitator for the symposium. Clarissa is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, previously served as the Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at UNICEF, and helped establish the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership. She is also Managing Editor of the

The Global Hygiene Symposium in Singapore Will Foster Collaborative Solutions for Global Health and Well-Being The Global Hygiene Symposium in Singapore on December 6-8, 2023 aims to drive innovative solutions in global health and expedite progress in hygiene as a pivotal component of overall well-being and global health security. Unfortunately, hygiene often receives minimal consideration in public policy discourse – even though numerous public health experts recognize hygiene as a key to global health and a critical defense against pandemics, and even though millions of people die annually from preventable diseases that are transmitted because of poor access to hygiene or poor hygiene habits. The symposium seeks to ignite cross-disciplinary partnerships to help improve this situation. The symposium will be hosted by the Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute, a private foundation which aims to address gaps in research funding and data availability in the research field, and Chatham House, an international