Global Health: Next Decade, Next Generation | University of Washington

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8:00 - 8:25 a.m.	Continental Breakfast available
8:30 - 8:40 a.m	Introduction - Judith Wasserheit, Chair and Professor, Department of Global Health, UW
	*Featured speakers:*
8:40 - 9:00 a.m.	Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization Grand Challenges for Next Decade in Global Health Policy and Programs Questions
9:00 - 9:20 a.m.	Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor of Global Health Grand Challenges for Next Decade in Global Health Research and Education/Training Questions
9:20 - 9:30 a.m.	Transition
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.	Panel on: Pandemic Disease Preparedness and Response Moderator: Ken Stuart, President and Founder, Center for Infectious Disease Research Bernice Dahn, Minister of Health for Liberia Michael Gale, Professor of Immunology, Director, Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease, UW Simon Hay, Professor of Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), UW M. Kariuki Njenga, Research Professor, Global Animal Health, Washington State University
10:45 - 11:05 a.m.	BREAK
11:05 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.	Panel on: Prevention and Care for Non-Communicable Diseases Moderator: Bindiya Patel, Deputy Director of Public Health, PATH Ala Alwan, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization Ali Mokdad, Professor of Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), UW Rachel Nugent, Vice President, Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases Global Initiative, RTI International Craig Rubens, Executive Director, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)
12:20 - 1:20 p.m.	LUNCH
1:20 - 2:35 p.m.	Panel on: Impact of Global Environmental Change on Human Health Moderator: Lisa Cohen, Executive Director, Washington Global Health Alliance Guy Palmer, Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Creighton Endowed Chair and Senior Director of Global Health, Washington State University Jeremy Hess Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Global Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Co-Director, Center for Health and The Global Environment (CHaNGE), UW Lisa Graumlich, Dean and Professor, College of the Environment, UW James Pfeiffer, Professor of Global Health and Anthropology, UW; Executive Director, Health Alliance International
2:35 - 2:55 p.m.	BREAK
2:55 - 4:10 p.m.	Panel on: Innovative Approaches to Global Health Education and Training Moderator: Chris Elias, President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Patricia Garcia, Minister of Health of Peru Elizabeth Bukusi, Chief Research Officer, Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor of Global Health Judith Wasserheit, Chair and Professor, Department of Global Health, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, UW
4:10 - 4:30 p.m.	Closing remarks

Featured Speakers

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Judith N. Wasserheit, MD, MPH, Chair of the Department of Global Health, Professor of Global Health, Medicine, Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Dr. Wasserheit works nationally and globally with agencies, governments, and colleagues on STD and HIV research, policy, and programmatic issues, and climate change impact on health. Her honors include the U.S. DHHS Presidential Meritorious Rank Award, the Edward E. Kass Award, and the American Social Health Association’s Presidential Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Margaret Chan, MD, MsC, is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), appointed by the World Health Assembly on November 9th, 2006. Dr. Chan was appointed for a second five-year term in May 2012 and will serve until June 30th, 2017.

During her nine-year tenure as director, Dr. Chan confronted the first human outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in 1997. She successfully defeated the spate of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2003. She also launched new services to prevent disease and promote better health.

Before being elected Director-General, Dr. Chan was WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases, as well as Representative of the Director-General for Pandemic Influenza.

Peter Piot, MD, PhD, is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and HANDA Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008. Professor Piot co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and led research on AIDS, women’s health, and public health in Africa. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee to the Global Burden of Disease, and the International Advisory Board of the UW Department of Global Health. He received numerous awards, including the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize and the Prince Mahidol Award.

Pandemic Disease Preparedness and Response

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Ken Stuart, PhD, is an expert on the molecular/cell biology of pathogens that cause African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. He is recognized for his groundbreaking studies of RNA editing, a novel process unique to these pathogens that provides targets for drug development. His laboratory also studies immune responses in clinical trials of malaria vaccines. Dr. Stuart is an Affiliate Professor in Global Health at the University of Washington.

Bernice Dahn, MD, MPH, is the Minister of Health in the Republic of Liberia, heading the country's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. She earned her MPH in the aftermath of a prolonged civil war that decimated Liberia's health infrastructure and compelled many of its health workers to flee. Her aim of completing the degree was to target head-on the challenges she and her country-persons faced in rebuilding their health system. She was integral in bringing an end to the country’s Ebola outbreak and in restoring routine health services as the Deputy Minister and Chief Medical Officer.

Michael Gale, Jr., PhD, is a specialist in virus signaling, interferon biology and innate intracellular immunity to virus infection. Dr. Gale received his training at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He served on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center until joining the University of Washington in 2007.

Simon I. Hay, BSc, PhD, DSc, is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). His career has focused on spatial and temporal aspects of infectious disease epidemiology to support the more rational implementation of disease control and intervention strategies. His best-known work is focused on accurately defining human populations at-risk of malaria and its burden at global, regional, and national scales.

Kariuki Njenga, PhD, is Head of the One Health Program at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya, and a Professor in the Paul Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University. Dr. Njenga is trained as veterinarian with advanced training and research experience on emerging infectious diseases.

Prevention and Care for Non-Communicable Diseases

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Bindiya Gillenwater Patel, M.P.A., is the deputy director of Public Health at PATH where she helps manage a portfolio of projects in health systems, infectious diseases, maternal/child health, and NCDs. In her 13 years at PATH, Bindiya has led strategic planning activities, led advocacy efforts on HIV prevention technologies, managed Tusberculosis projects in Tanzania, and launched PATH’s Center for Malaria Control and Elimination. Bindiya also chaired the National Women's Health Network board for 4 years.

Ala Alwan, MBChB, MRCP, is WHO’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean (2012 to 2017). He was Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (2008 to 2012) and Assistant Director-General for Health Action in Crises (2005 to 2008). Before joining WHO in 1992, Dr Alwan was Professor and Dean of a Medical School in Baghdad. He also served as Minister of Health, and of Education (2003 to 2005).

Ali Mokdad, PhD, leads the survey and surveillance activities at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Prior to joining IHME, Dr. Mokdad worked at the CDC, starting his career there in 1990. He served in numerous positions with the International Health Program; the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity; the National Immunization Program; and the National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Promotion, where he was Chief of the Behavioral Surveillance Branch.

Rachel Nugent, PhD, is Vice President for Global Non-communicable Diseases at RTI International. She leads a global initiative to prevent and reduce the health and economic burdens of chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Prior to this position, Dr. Nugent was Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health, and Director of the Disease Control Priorities Network, University of Washington.

Craig Rubens, MD, PhD, is a Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at Seattle Children’s and a Professor of Global Health and Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine. His research has focused on serious perinatal infections that lead to poor pregnancy and newborn health outcomes. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS). GAPPS was created to address the major global problems of prematurity and stillbirth by developing a prevention-focused research, development and advocacy agenda in collaboration with Seattle Children’s, BMGF, USAID, and NIH

Impact of Global Environmental Change on Human Health

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Lisa Cohen, MA, is Founding Executive Director of the Washington Global Health Alliance (WGHA), a coalition of more than 70 leading global health research, development and funding organizations.

Prior to formation of WGHA, Ms. Cohen spent 25 years as a senior manager and producer at Seattle television stations. She taught journalism at the University of Washington, where she earned degrees in Broadcast Journalism and International Communications.

She serves as Co-Chair for the Governor’s Life Science and Global Health Advisory Council and on the governance boards of Global to Local and Life Science Washington and numerous civic advisory committees.

Guy H. Palmer, DVM, PhD, holds the Jan and Jack Creighton Endowed Chair in Global Health at Washington State University (WSU) where he works as Regents Professor of Pathology & Infectious Diseases. The founding director of WSU’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, he currently leads global efforts at WSU as the Senior Director of Global Health.

Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor with appointments in Emergency Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and Global Health. He is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded grant supporting work in India on the epidemiology of extreme heat and strategies for developing, implementing, and evaluating heat early warning systems. He is also the PI of a NASA-funded study on weather, climate, pollen, and allergic disease in the US. Dr. Hess has served as a medical advisor to the Climate and Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on climate change, extreme events, and disasters, and on the last US National Climate Assessment. He is the Co-Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the UW School of Public Health.

Lisa Graumlich, MS, PhD, is Dean of the University of Washington College of the Environment and Mary Laird Wood Professor. She previously served as Director of the University of Arizona’s Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, and Montana State University’s Big Sky Institute. As a scholar, Graumlich pioneered the use of tree-ring and other proxy data to understand long-term trends in climate.

James Pfeiffer, PhD, MPH, is Professor in the Department of Global Health the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Dr. Pfeiffer earned his PhD in Anthropology and MPH at UCLA. He is Executive Director of Health Alliance International (HAI), a non-profit affiliated with the Department of Global Health.

Innovative Approaches to Global Health Education and Training

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Chris Elias, MD, MPH, is the president of the Global Development Program, where he leads Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts in a diverse range of program areas aimed at finding creative new ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in poor countries who need them most. Chris’s professional background is in public health and medicine. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in February 2012, he worked in various positions and countries for international nonprofit organizations, most recently serving as the president and CEO of PATH, an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors.

Patty García, MD, MPH, is the Minister of Health of Peru. She is affiliate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington and at the School of Public Health at Tulane University. Her training in internal medicine, infectious disease and public health paved the way for her success. She became a leading researcher in sexually transmitted disease and the first female chair of the Peruvian National Institute of Health.

Elizabeth Anne Bukusi, PhD, MPH, MBChB, M.Med (ObGyn), PGD(Research Ethics), MBE, CIP, FAAS, is a Chief Research Ofﬁcer and the Deputy Director Research and Training at KEMRI. Her primary research interests are in sexually transmitted infections, reproductive health, and HIV prevention, care and treatment.

Peter Piot, MD, PhD, is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and HANDA Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008. Professor Piot co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and led research on AIDS, women’s health, and public health in Africa. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee to the Global Burden of Disease, and the International Advisory Board of the UW Department of Global Health. He received numerous awards, including the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize and the Prince Mahidol Award.

Judith N. Wasserheit, MD, MPH, Chair of the Department of Global Health, Professor of Global Health, Medicine, Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Dr. Wasserheit works nationally and globally with agencies, governments, and colleagues on STD and HIV research, policy, and programmatic issues, and climate change impact on health. Her honors include the U.S. DHHS Presidential Meritorious Rank Award, the Edward E. Kass Award, and the American Social Health Association’s Presidential Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aspires to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. We are dedicated to discovering and disseminating innovative approaches to addressing extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries and improving the U.S.education system.

www.gatesfoundation.org

Center for Infectious Disease Research

Founded 40 years ago, the mission of the Center for Infectious Disease Research is to make transformative scientific advancements that lead to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. We develop and employ systems biology approaches to accelerate progress in the development of vaccines to prevent, drugs to treat and diagnostics to detect lethal and debilitating infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and emerging infectious diseases.

www.cidresearch.org

Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth

The Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an initiative of Seattle Children's, strives to reduce the burden of preterm birth and stillbirth by advancing collaborative research to identify, develop and implement evidence-based solutions. We work to strengthen collaborations in maternal, newborn and child health, and develop a unified, global focus on preterm birth and stillbirth.

gapps.org

Health Alliance International

For 30 years, Health Alliance International (HAI) has worked in solidarity with government partners to strengthen primary health care and foster social, economic, and health equity for all. Central to HAI’s mission is supporting the public sector to improve the capacity of ministries of health to measure performance, improve quality, and expand the scope of health services to people who need them the most. HAI’s relationship with the University of Washington is a model for collaboration between academic and government partners.

www.healthallianceinternational.org

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Established in 2007, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington in Seattle that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates strategies to address them. IHME makes this information available so that policymakers, donors, practitioners, researchers, and local and global decision-makers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

www.healthdata.org

PATH

PATH is an international nonprofit organization. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.

www.path.org

Washington Global Health Alliance

WGHA strategically connects, champions and strengthens the global health community to advance health equity. We believe the global health community can improve more lives if we partner more strategically and have a collective voice.

www.wghalliance.org

Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health

WSU’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health was founded with a cornerstone gift by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a capstone gift by Paul G. Allen. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Allen School works across disciplinary boundaries to provide innovative solutions to global challenges through research, education, and implementation at the nexus of human, animal, and environmental health.

www.globalhealth.wsu.edu

University of Washington, Department of Global Health

The Department of Global Health (DGH) was established in 2007, bridging the schools of Medicine and Public Health, with a mandate to harness the expertise and interdisciplinary power of all 16 University of Washington schools and colleges. DGH prepares the next generation of leaders to achieve health impact at scale by identifying the causes of disease; developing and delivering innovative technologies, programs and policies; and measuring their effectiveness to drive improvement. Our current and emerging focus areas are grounded in social justice and equity.

globalhealth.washington.edu

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