2022 Symposium
Meeting the Moment
Progress & Potential in a Changing Global Health Landscape
December 7 – 8
Schedule
Moderator: Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, President and CEO | Global Health Council
Speakers:
Mary Beth Goodman, Coordinator, Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security | U.S. Department of State
Mary Beth Goodman serves as the Coordinator for Global COVID Response and Health Security for the U.S. Department of State. Ms. Goodman is an international development and anti-corruption policy expert who has worked with governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, and international institutions to advance global development, human rights, and social justice. She served as the Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Development, Democracy and Humanitarian Affairs at the White House, where she was responsible for advising the President and National Security Advisor on a wide range of issues.
Eric Meyer | United States Department of the Treasury
Eric Meyer is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa and the Middle East at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In this role he oversees Treasury’s engagement with 59 economies across Africa and the Middle East, including economic and financial sector monitoring, analysis and policy advice, and development policy work. In his over 20 years with Treasury, Eric has worked on a range of development, environment, private sector, and regional economic issues. He has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Development Policy, in the U.S. Executive Director’s offices at the IMF, World Bank and EBRD, as well as covering Europe as Treasury Representative based in Frankfurt. As Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director for Europe and Eurasia, Eric coordinated the Department’s engagement with, and response to, financial and economic crises across Europe between 2006 and 2010. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Eric worked in international consulting and construction management in Atlanta. He earned degrees in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and International Economics and Energy and Environment Policy from the Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Raj Panjabi | United States National Security Council
Recognized by TIME as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Dr. Raj Panjabi is a physician, professor, epidemiologist, entrepreneur and public servant. Dr. Panjabi currently serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the White House National Security Council.
Previously, Dr. Panjabi was appointed by President Biden as the 3rd U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator to head the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and co-implemented with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention. As the President’s Malaria Coordinator, he managed an annual budget of $770 million and over 200 USAID and CDC staff to protect hundreds of millions of people at risk of malaria across nearly 30 countries representing 80% of the global malaria burden in Asia and Africa. Panjabi was the first Asian American and first person born in Africa, where malaria is endemic, to serve in the role. During Panjabi’s tenure, PMI launched a $6 billion strategy aimed at ending malaria within a generation by helping save four million lives, prevent one billion cases and introducing initiatives to help rollout the world’s first malaria vaccine, strengthen community health workforces, and expand partnerships with local institutions. He also served on the executive leadership team at the USAID Bureau of Global Health and on the U.S. constituency to the Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which helped lead the global response to COVID-19.
Prior to serving in the Biden-Harris Administration, Dr. Panjabi served as CEO of Last Mile Health, an award-winning non-profit organization he co-founded in 2007 to save lives in the world’s most remote communities. Panjabi has authored or co-authored over 80 publications in the scientific and popular press. He received a medical degree from the University of North Carolina, trained in internal medicine and as a clinical fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, received a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University as a Sommer Scholar, and served as visiting faculty at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Social Innovation and Change Initiative. Dr. Panjabi currently lives in the Washington, DC area with his family.
Priya Basu | World Bank
Priya Basu is the Executive Head of the Secretariat for the newly established Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank. Priya has also been serving as head of the Secretariat for the COVID-19 task force and leading the World Bank’s engagement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response in global fora, including the G20 and G7 – coordinating across finance and health. With a career in development finance spanning three decades, Priya brings a depth and breadth of experience in country operations across world regions, resource mobilization, and leading and driving large and complex multi-stakeholder initiatives and agreements at the global level to support global public goods.
Other speakers TBC.
During this session, speakers will highlight the current state of play for multilaterals as the world transitions out of the pandemic and share how multilaterals are addressing cross-cutting issues with health.
Moderator:
Amy Boldosser-Boesch | MSH
Amy Boldosser-Boesch has more than 20 years of experience in both global and U.S. domestic health policy and advocacy. She is currently Senior Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy & Engagement and Senior Director for Integrated Health Care at Management Sciences for Health (MSH). She oversees MSH’s work and teams dedicated to improving women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health and person-centered primary health care and leads advocacy and accountability efforts for improved sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health and universal health coverage. She oversees the Secretariat for the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism of UHC2030, which advocates to ensure marginalized groups are not left behind in the push to achieve universal health coverage. Previously, she was interim president and CEO at Family Care International (FCI), an NGO dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safer in the developing world; she led the integration of FCI’s programs and staff into MSH in late 2015. Amy is a proud member of the Global Health Council Board of Directors.
Panelists:
Mandeep Dhaliwal | UNDP
Dr. Mandeep Dhaliwal is the Director of UNDP’s HIV and Health Group, Bureau of Policy and Programme Support. She brings to the organization over 20 years of experience working on HIV, health, human rights and evidence-based policy and programming in low and middle-income countries. Prior to joining UNDP, she was a senior adviser to the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute’s Special Programme on HIV/ AIDS. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Dhaliwal worked for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance’s Policy, Research and Good Practice Team in the United Kingdom where she focused on issues of HIV care and treatment in developing countries. She was instrumental in expanding the International HIV/AIDS Alliance’s technical support and policy work on issues of HIV care, treatment and support in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Abheet Solomon | UNICEF
Mr. Abheet Solomon is the planning and partnerships lead for UNICEF’s global health programme. Based in New York, Abheet has worked with UNICEF for over 22 years in various roles across Africa, Caribbean, South Asia and North America, focusing on strategic planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of UNICEF’s programmes on maternal, newborn and child health, education, WASH and child protection. Abheet also led joint UN planning in Tanzania Delivering as One and in Suriname, in addition to monitoring results for children with regional inter-governmental entities. In his current role, Abheet is also the global programme lead for UNICEF’s Healthy Environments for Healthy Children programme which focuses on protecting children’s health from the impact of pollution and climate change.
Jordie Hannum | Better World Campaign
Jordie Hannum has 20 years of legislative, analytical, and advocacy experience, including key roles on Capitol Hill, political campaigns, and within non-governmental organizations. As Executive Director of the Better World Campaign (BWC), he guides its legislative and advocacy efforts around U.S.-UN engagement and helped secure support for paying off over $700 million in arrears to the United Nations. During his tenure at the UN Foundation/BWC, Mr. Hannum has testified in front of Congress on the UN’s value, its peacekeeping operations, and U.S. standing in international organizations. He has traveled to South Sudan, DR Congo and Uganda researching civilian protection and written on the importance of U.S. engagement in peacekeeping. Stemming from his travels, Mr. Hannum has also examined how peacekeepers create conditions under which displaced persons can voluntarily return home. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Hill, Just Security, The Cipher Brief, and Devex.
Sarah Craven | United Nations Population Fund
Sarah Craven serves as Director, North American Representational Office of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Sarah is a seasoned policy advocate and attorney with experience in global health and human rights. Prior to her work at UNFPA, she held positions at the U.S. Department of State and on the legislative staff to U.S. Senators Tim Wirth and Spark Matsunaga. She served as policy a dvisor to CEDPA during the 1994 International Conference on Population and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. She holds a B.A. from Macalester College, a M. Phil from Cambridge University (UK) and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar. In 2010, she was named one of Macalester College’s Distinguished Citizens.
Join us as we hear from Dr. Denise Cardo, Acting Director of the Center for Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Denise Cardo is the Acting Director for the Center for Global Health (CGH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since August 2022. Dr. Cardo joined CDC in 1993 as a medical epidemiologist and, after holding several leadership positions in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, she was selected as division director in 2003. Dr. Cardo has led CDC activities to prevent infections and antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings, sepsis, and to promote healthcare safety in the United States and globally. She has been involved in several CDC responses to emerging infection threats, including to COVID-19. In addition, she has served in other CDC leadership roles, including as the CDC Acting Deputy Director for Surveillance, Epi and Lab systems (OSELS) and CDC Acting Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases (DDID).
Prior to joining CDC, she had a distinguished career in the division of infectious diseases at one of Brazil’s prestigious medical institutions, Escola Paulista de Medicina, where she received her medical degree, completed her residency and fellowship, and joined the faculty as associated professor of infectious diseases.
She is the author of several research and reviewed papers including book chapters and has received several awards for her work.
Looking forward at opportunities to shift the global health architecture–across all the pillars.
Moderator:
Dr. Jen Kates, Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health and HIV Policy | KFF
Dr. Jen Kates is Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health & HIV Policy at KFF, where she oversees policy analysis and research focused on the U.S. government’s role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. She has also helped to lead KFF’s work on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Kates has served on numerous federal and private sector advisory committees on global health and HIV issues including the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), PEPFAR’s Scientific Advisory Board, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Panelists:
Anuradha Gupta, President, Global Immunization | Sabin Vaccine Institute
Anuradha Gupta joined Sabin Vaccine Institute as President of Global Immunization in October 2022. A veteran public health leader, Anuradha has in her previous roles spearheaded a host of successful global initiatives to improve the health of women and children and harness the full power of vaccines. Her work has created profound impact at a global scale, saving and improving millions of lives.
Jirair Ratevosian, DrPH, MPH, Acting Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor | PEPFAR
Jirair Ratevosian joined S/GAC in August of 2021. He is responsible for building and maintaining political relations across relevant U.S. government agencies and Department of State offices in service of PEPFAR. He is currently serving as Chief of Staff (acting), assisting Ambassador Nkengasong with strategic planning, hiring, policy development, and other front office management issues. He also serves as Chair for the PEPFAR program in South Africa. Jirair joined S/GAC as senior advisor in August 2021. He worked previously on the Biden-Harris Transition Team as policy advisor on national security, COVID-19, and global health. Prior to joining S/GAC, he led corporate social responsibility and partnership relations at Gilead Sciences, and served as legislative director to Congresswoman Barbara Lee,w here he led budget, appropriations, and the re-authorization of PEPFAR in 2013. He has worked at amfAR, Physicians for Human Rights, and served on the board of the Global Fund. In 2022, he received a doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Musarrat Perveen, Regional Coordinator | CARAM Asia
Musarrat has a Masters/MSC in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sindh, Pakistan and has been working in the development sector for the last twenty years. Musarrat joined CARAM Asia in 2011, and has contributed significantly in the advancing of migrant worker’s health, HIV/AIDS, and labor rights at various levels.
Dr. Mai Hijazi, Director, Office of Health Systems, Bureau for Global Health | USAID
Dr. Mai Hijazi is the Director of USAID’s Office of Health Systems in the Bureau for Global Health. She recently served in USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, as Division Chief for the Systems and Program Sustainability Division, where she led technical branches covering finance and economics, health workforce, transition to local partners and private sector approaches on advancing USAID’s role for HIV sustained epidemic control, health systems strengthening, and leadership and programmatic coordination for the PEPFAR-funded Sustainable Financing Initiative and USAID’s Local Partner Transition initiative. She joined USAID in 1997 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow with a Ph.D. in biomedical science and has also served as a Health Development Officer for USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health.
Darren Back, Vice President, Accord Strategy and Partnership Lead | Pfizer, and Executive Director | The Pfizer Foundation
Rooted in his more than two decades of global health and strategic healthcare experience, for nearly four years Darren has driven Pfizer’s enterprise strategy for global health and social impact. This includes expanding access to quality healthcare through health systems related investments, setting and leading The Pfizer Foundation’s programmatic and investment strategies, as well as directing disaster and humanitarian response. Building on his public health expertise, he is currently seconded to lead partner engagement for ‘An Accord for a Healthier World,’ a first-of-its kind initiative to expand rapid and affordable access to Pfizer’s patented medicines and vaccines available in the U.S and Europe on a not-for-profit basis in 45 lower-income countries. An expert in public health, healthcare delivery and patient access, Darren frequently works with global and national stakeholders to identify innovative partnership opportunities and ensure that Pfizer and the Pfizer Foundation’s commitments are catalytic in addressing country-specific health needs. Darren is also a Board Member of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.
*The Pfizer Foundation is a charitable organization established by Pfizer Inc. It is a separate legal entity from Pfizer Inc., with distinct legal restrictions.