Global Health: Getting from Innovation to Implementation
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Session Description
Breakthrough and lifesaving innovations in global health like new vaccines or treatments for widespread diseases are exciting. But after the innovation is unleashed, often the hardest part remains: how to get these life-saving products and insights into adoption in places with the greatest need. Global and national regulations, a vast array of national and private health systems, insufficient medical staff or training, and often tough terrain can all stand between a patient and a cure. We’ll hear how global health leaders are attacking these problems creatively.
Time & Location
Time:
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Wednesday, April 5, 2017
BST
Location:
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Speakers
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Speaker
Executive Director, Institut Pasteur, Bangui
Professor Yap Boum II is Executive Director of the Institute Pasteur of Bangui in Central Africa Republic. He has implemented studies on TB, malaria, Ebola, COVID-19 and teaches Public in several Universities in Africa. He was the Chief of Operations of COVID-19 response in Cameroon. He serves on the Board of The Lancet Global Health with strong interest on equity and the contribution of African scientists in Global Health. He has co-found of Kmerpad, that developed washable sanitary pads to empower women. He has also co-found iDocta a digital platform that take healthcare services to the community. He started Homegrown Solutions for Health (HS4Health) to find innovative solutions to address health challenges Africa faces. The Village digital platform from HS4Health that will connect scientist to decolonize Global Health. He is inspired by the vision of a healthy and wealthy Africa that will develop by relying on local resources and equitable partnership.
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Moderator
Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world’s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co-founders believe health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized. Since that time, GHC has placed almost 1,000 young leaders from more than 40 countries with non-profit and government health organizations like Partners In Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, and the United States, developing them as creative, effective, and compassionate leaders along the way. Prior to GHC, Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where she supported design-thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked with Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana, and has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011, Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact, and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.
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Speaker
Director, Ariadne Labs
Atul Gawande MD, MPH is a surgeon, professor, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and is professor in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation. Dr. Gawande is also Founder and Chairman of the Lifebox Foundation, a nonprofit reducing deaths in surgery globally. He is also a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, and author of four bestselling books, most recently Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
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Speaker
Unknown, Individual
Steve Davis is Senior Strategic Advisor and Interim Director, China Country Office, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also serves as co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, is a Distinguished Fellow for the World Economic Forum, and is a member of numerous boards and advisory committees. He is the former President & CEO of PATH, a leading global health innovation organization; former Director of Social Innovation at McKinsey & Company, a global consultancy; and former CEO of Corbis, a digital media pioneer. With degrees from Princeton University, University of Washington and Columbia Law School, he speaks and writes regularly about the intersection of innovation, technology and social impact. He is the author of Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism (Wiley 2020). He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.
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Speaker
Vice President/Executive Dean for Health Sciences, University of Liberia
Dr. Bernice T. Dahn is the Vice President/ Executive Dean for Health Sciences at the University of Liberia (UL). She served as the Minister of Health for the Republic of Liberia from 2015-2018. For almost nine years prior, Dr. Dahn served as the Deputy Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Republic of Liberia. Having taught medical students as a faculty member at her alma mater, A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine, for thirteen years, Dr. Dahn is now focused in her current role on improving academic and administrative systems for the UL College of Health Sciences, with a vision of establishing a world-class health sciences education system.
