Universal Health Coverage and the New Health Economy
Organised by the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in partnership with Rabin Martin and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics,
Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise
Biographies of Speakers
24 May 2016 Maison de la paix
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, 1202 Geneva
WELCOME
ILONA KICKBUSCH
Director, Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute
Ilona Kickbusch is the Director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She is a senior advisor to the Regional Directors of the WHO Regional Offices for Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, and she has been deeply involved in the development of the Health 2020 European health policy framework. She was also a member of the independent Ebola interim assessment panel of WHO. In Switzerland, she serves on the executive board of the Careum Foundation and on the expert panel to the Federal Council to advise on the implementation of the Swiss Health Strategy 2020. She has contributed to innovation in health in many ways throughout her career and now advises organisations, government agencies, and the private sector on policies and strategies to promote health at the national, European, and international level. She has worked with WHO at various levels and in academia as Professor at Yale University. She has received honorary doctorates from the Nordic School of Public Health and the University of Girona.
She has published widely and is a member of a number of advisory boards in both the academic and the health policy arenas. She has received several awards for her contributions. Her key areas of work relate to Global Health Governance, Health Security, Public Health, Health Promotion, Health Literacy, and Health in All Policies. She has a strong commitment to women's rights. Details and updates can be found on her Website: www.ilonakickbusch.com and on Wikipedia. You can follow her on twitter @IlonaKickbusch.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS MARK DYBUL
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Mark Dybul is the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Dr. Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist, teacher and administrator. After graduating from Georgetown Medical School in Washington D.C., Dr. Dybul joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases where he conducted basic and clinical studies on HIV virology, immunology and treatment optimisation, including the first randomised control trial with combination antiretroviral therapy in Africa. Dr. Dybul became a founding architect and driving force in the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR. After serving as Chief Medical Officer, Assistant, Deputy and Acting Director, in 2006 he was appointed as its leader, becoming U.S.
Global AIDS Coordinator, with the rank of Ambassador at the level of an Assistant Secretary of State. He served until early 2009. Dr. Dybul is a Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2014 to present. He has written extensively in scientific and policy literature, and has received several Honorary Degrees and awards.
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CHRISTIAN FRANZ
Chief Executive Officer, CPC Analytics
Christian Franz is the CEO of the data-driven consulting firm CPC Analytics which is based in Berlin, Pune, and Strasbourg. Bringing together qualitative and quantitative research methods, CPC’s team of economists, social scientists, and software engineers support public sector organisations and businesses to collect, analyse and visualise data. Before coming to CPC Analytics, Christian worked as an Executive Assistant to the President of DIW in Berlin – Germany’s largest think tank on economic policy. Christian also worked for the German-American online journal Fair Observer and at the strategy consulting firm L.E.K. Christian attained his Master of Public Policy from Hertie School of Governance and Georgetown University, after studying business administration and economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
PANEL DISCUSSION SIMON HENDRIE
Product Development Actuary, Discovery Vitality
Simon Hendrie is Product Development Actuary with Discovery Vitality. He has led design of the Vitality incentivised wellness program in Asia and the UK, integrating it with health and life insurance products. He has also worked in health and financial services policy in South Africa. His degrees include BBusSc (Actuarial Science and Statistics) from University of Cape Town, and BA (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) & MSc (Comparative Social Policy) from Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.
JANET VOÛTE
Global Head of Public Affairs, Nestlé
Mrs. Janet Voûte is responsible for Global Public Affairs at Nestlé S.A. and chairs the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Council. Janet is responsible for driving Creating Shared Value including reporting, the Global CSV Forum and Stakeholder engagement. Mrs. Voûte also plays a leading role in Nestlé’s engagement to address the double-burden of malnutrition. Prior to joining Nestlé, Mrs. Janet Voûte served as Partnership Adviser at the World Health Organization in the Non-communicable Disease and Mental Health Cluster.
From 2000-2008, Mrs. Voûte served as CEO of the World Heart Federation, a global NGO dedicated to the prevention and control of heart disease and stroke.
She began her career in strategy consulting with Bain & Company in Paris, Munich, Zürich and Geneva. As Vice President/Partner she focused on the food and health sectors.
Mrs. Voûte is an honours graduate of Smith College in Massachusetts, USA and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy and Washington DC.
PETER SANDS
Chair, Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future
Peter Sands is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and Lead Non-Executive Director of the Board of the United Kingdom’s Department of Health. Mr.
Sands was Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank from November 2006 to June 2015. He joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as Group Finance Director in May 2002. Before his appointment as Group Chief Executive, he was responsible for Finance, Strategy, Risk, and Technology and Operations. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Mr. Sands was a director with worldwide consultants McKinsey & Company. He joined McKinsey in 1988, and worked extensively in the banking and technology sectors in a wide range of international markets. He was elected a partner in 1996 and became a director in 2000. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked for the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Mr.
Sands graduated from Oxford University and holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University, where he was a Harkness Fellow.
CLOSING REMARKS JEFFREY STURCHIO
President and CEO, Rabin Martin
Jeffrey L. Sturchio is President and CEO at Rabin Martin, a global health strategy consulting firm, and former President and CEO of the Global Health Council. Before joining the Council in 2009, Dr. Sturchio was vice president of Corporate Responsibility at Merck & Co. Inc., president of The Merck Company Foundation and chairman of the U. S. Corporate Council on Africa (CCA). While at Merck & Co., Inc., for more than a decade he was a leader of the company’s global HIV/AIDS policy and was centrally involved in the UN/Industry Accelerating Access Initiative established in 2000 to help improve HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world. He was a member of the board of the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships in Botswana (2005-2009) and a member of the private sector delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (2002-2008). He is chairman of the Corporate Council on Africa, chairman of the BroadReach Institute for Training and Education and a member of the boards of ACHAP, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS and the Museum of AIDS in Africa. Dr. Sturchio is also currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University; Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs; a principal of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Arthur W. Page Society; and an advisor to amfAR, the Clinton Global Initiative, Intrahealth International and the NCD Alliance. He received an AB in history from Princeton University and a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.
His publications include Noncommunicable diseases in the developing world: addressing global gaps in policy and research (edited with L. Galambos, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
