Healthcare: Early Detection And Prevention
Friday, March 27, 2009
Session Description
Practitioner Showcase: The gap between rich and poor is manifest in any number of ways, particularly in healthcare, where governments and markets have failed the most vulnerable populations. Four passionate and gifted social entrepreneurs will discuss their innovations and demonstrate how lives can improve against seemingly insurmountable odds. Learn about the simple, scalable, and extremely successful approaches they’ve taken to healthcare delivery, prevention and education.
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:15, Friday, March 27, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Professor/Founder, Stanford University
Nathan Wolfe holds the Lorry Lokey Visiting Professorship in Human Biology at Stanford University. He received his doctorate in immunology and infectious diseases from Harvard University in 1998, and has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship (1997), the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2005), and the National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award (2009). Wolfe’s research aims to chart the diversity of microbial life on earth, and combines methods from molecular virology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology. He founded and directs the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI), a pandemic early warning system which monitors the spillover of novel infectious agents from animals into humans. GVFI coordinates activities of over 100 scientists and staff from countries around the world.
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Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people. He is Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad have pioneered novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings.
Dr. Farmer holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he is the Kolokotrones University Professor and the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; he is also Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Additionally, Dr. Farmer serves as the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti.
Dr. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award from the American Medical Association, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and, with his PIH colleagues, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Gene Falk is one of the few people to lead major ventures in both Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Building on this experience, he founded and heads strategic consulting firm FalkAdvisors|DGB whose mission is to help funders and the not-for-profits they support achieve the best results from their collaborations, avoiding risks and pain points, and sidestepping obstacles that rapidly burn through money, time and other valuable resources.
Previously, Gene headed mothers2mothers (m2m) and was a recipient of a Skoll Award for this work. Prior to that, Gene was a senior executive at Showtime and HBO.
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Dr. Larry Brilliant is a physician and epidemiologist, CEO of Pandefense Advisory, senior advisor at the Skoll Foundation and a CNN Medical Analyst. Previously on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and the NGO Ending Pandemics; president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund; vice president of Google, and founding executive director of Google.org. He co-founded the Seva Foundation. Earlier, he co-founded The Well, a progenitor of today's social media platforms. He was an associate professor of epidemiology and international health planning at the University of Michigan. He lived in India for nearly a decade where he was a key member of the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme for SE Asia as well as the WHO Polio Eradication Programme. He was the founding chairman of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS); member of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk; and a "First Responder" for CDC's bio-terrorism response effort. He is also an author.
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Bart is a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur.
He took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable detectors in response to the global landmine problem. What started in 1995 as a modest research initiative in detection rats technology, gradually grew into a global humanitarian operation through his organisation apopo.org which became one of the leading social enterprises in the world, recognised and awarded by networks like Ashoka, the Skoll Awards and the World Economic Forum.
Bart transitioned from his executive role in 2015 to focus on the practice of Zen. In the same year he got involved in The Wellbeing Project which aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers.
While exploring the relationship between personal growth and social innovation, he recently co-founded a new initiative innerpreneurs.org which is a brave space for entrepreneurial leaders to fulfilll their noble life purpose.
