Symposium On

Global Health Delivery

Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Excellence and Equity

A project of the programs in global health and social change

Monday, April 4, 2011

1:00 p.m. – Welcome

  • Vanessa Bradford Kerry, MD, MSc
    Instructor in Medicine and in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Director of Education and External Affairs, Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Program in Public Policy and Social Change, Symposium Co-Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Change, Harvard Medical School
  • Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD
    Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston; Director, Program in Newborn Health and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Symposium co-Chair
  • Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
    Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University
  • Jeffrey S. Flier, MD
    Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

1:25 p.m. – Evaluating Impact in Global Health: Operationalizing and Measuring the Relevant Outcomes

  • Rifat Atun, MBBS, MBA, FRCGP, MFPH
    Professor of International Health Management, Imperial College London; Director, Strategy, Performance, and Evaluation Cluster, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
  • Rachel Glennerster, PhD
    Director, Abdul-Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Anuraj Shankar, DSc
    Senior Research Scientist, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Michael R. Reich, PhD
    Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Moderator: Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM
    Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Moderator: John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA
    Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital Boston; Associate Professor of Surgery and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship, Children’s Hospital, Boston/Partners In Health

3:05 p.m. – Break


3:25 p.m. – Framing Priorities in Global Health

  • Dean T. Jamison, PhD
    Professor of Global Health, University of Washington
  • Norman Daniels, PhD
    Mary B. Saltonstall Professor and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Keith Joseph, MD
    Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Agnes Binagwaho, MD
    Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Rwanda; Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Felicia M. Knaul, PhD
    Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Ted Constan
    Chief Program Officer, Partners In Health; Program Manager for the Programs in Global Health and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Moderator: Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Program in Global Non-Communicable Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Moderator: Michael R. Reich, PhD
    Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

4:45 p.m. – The Role of Academic Institutions in Solving Global Health Delivery Problems

  • David Bangsberg, MD, MPH
    Director, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Global Health; Professor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; director of International Programs, Partners AIDS Research Center
  • Jeffrey S. Flier, MD
    Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • David T. Ellwood, PhD
    Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • V. Kanda Golakai, MSc, MD, ChM, FICS, FWACS, DSc
    Vice President for Health Sciences; Dean, AM Dogliotti College of Medicine, University of Liberia
  • Moderator: Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD
    Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston; Director, Program in Newborn Health and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Symposium co-Chair
  • Moderator: Andrew Ellner, MD, MSc
    Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Harvard Medical School; Director, Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

6:00 p.m. – Reception

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