WLGH Conference 2020
Speakers
Former Chief Humanitarian Coordinator, Nigeria
Programme Manager, Grand Challenges Africa
Principal, Rohini Anand LLC
Vice President, CorStone
Founder, WomenLift Health; Senior Associate Dean and Director, Stanford Global Health
Executive Director, WomenLift Health
Executive Director, Public Health Partnerships, Global Vaccines Public Policy, MSD
Family Medicine Physician & Research Associate, University of South Florida College of Public Health; Board Chair, Women in Global Health
Assistant Secretary-General for Resource Management, UN System Coordination, Sustainability and Partnerships; Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
Editor, NewsWorthy
Executive Director, UNAIDS
Professor of Psychiatry, The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore
African Union Special Envoy on Youth
Director of Leadership Programs at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development
Chair of the Board, International Partnership for Microbicides
Director, Special Programme on Primary Health Care, World Health Organization
CEO and Founder, Safe Hands for Girls
Award-winning TV Journalist; Washington Post Columnist
Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Professor of Epidemiology, Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Epidemiology and Associate Dean for Research Resources at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Director, Wellcome Trust
Director of Global Programs, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
First Lady, Republic of Namibia
Global Chief Executive Officer, Amref Health Africa
27th Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership
Founder and CEO, LifeBank Nigeria
Chief Planetary Doctor, PH Lab
Senior Advisor, 3D Program for Girls and Women; Global Advisory Board Chair, WomenLift Health
Director of the Centre for Gender and Global Health at University College London
Global Executive Director, Change.org Foundation
Journalist & Editor in Chief, Voicepk.net Pakistan’s First Digital Media Platform for Human Rights
Minister of Health, Republic of Liberia
Rapper and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Activist
Founder, The Colour Blue
Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals
Professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, CMC Vellore
Associate Scientific Director CAPRISA & Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University
Director of Programmes/AESA Platform, The African Academy of Sciences
Technical Officer – Reproductive Health, World Health Organization, India
Technical Specialist, International Center for Research on Women, Asia
Motivational Speaker and Activist; Founder, Pill Power Uganda
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sehat Kahani
Technical Coordinator (East & Southern Africa), Community Health Academy, Last Mile Health
Executive Director, African Population & Health Research Center (APHRC)
President and CEO, Ipas
Professor of Anthropology and Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
President & CEO, The Story Kitchen
CEO, Ipas Development Foundation
CEO, EDGE Americas
Director, The Foundation for Medical Research
Regional Director for Africa, World Health Organization
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health; Commissioner at the Commission for Gender Equality
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
Managing Executive, Corporate Citizenship, Absa Group
PhD Student, KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP)
Journalist and Filmmaker
United Nations High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment & Economic Growth
Founder & CEO, mHealth Kenya
Founder, AfriGal Tech
Assistant Professor, Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Special Assistant of Pakistan’s Prime Minister; Federal Minister, Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Ministry; Chairperson BISP
Co-Founder, iMed Tech
Director of Programs, Jinsiangu
Board Chair – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, WHO & AU Special Envoy on COVID-19 & Former Finance Minister, Nigeria
Founder, Adelle Onyango Initiative
Global Health & Development Specialist and Founding Curator & CEO, The Women’s Storytelling Salon
Canada Research Chair, Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University;Â Director, McGill Global Health Programs & International TB Centre
President of the Canadian Association of Midwives, Indigenous Registered Midwife
Program Manager, Grand Challenges Brazil
Head of Communicable Disease Control, Health Protection Agency, Maldives
Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer, Medtronic
Immediate Past President, Beyond Beijing Committee (BBC) Nepal
Co-CEO, Grand Challenges Canada
Regional Director for South-East Asia, World Health Organization
Deputy Executive Director, Management, UNICEF
Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India
Deputy Director, Global Partnerships & Grand Challenges, Discovery & Translational Sciences, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Journalist and Award-winning Author
Founder and CEO, Zain Verjee Group
Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women
Chief Executive Officer, Aga Khan Hospital, Kisumu Cluster
Assistant Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science
Director of Strategy, AfriLabs
Gender and Inclusion Lead and Programme Development and Funding Officer, Teach A Man To Fish; Project Leader, Hablemos Ingles
Director of Vaccine Development and Surveillance, and Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Co-founder, Growing Ambitions