Sessions in detail · Monday, November 16 th · 2020

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Opening the Geneva Health Forum in times of unprecedented global health crisis

09:30 - 10:30 (Swiss time)

• Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Swiss Confederation
• Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
• Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Government of India
• Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva
• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Bertrand Levrat, General Director, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG)
• Antoine Geissbuhler, Co-President of Geneva Health Forum, Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva, University of Geneva
• Nicole Rosset, Co-President of Geneva Health Forum, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG)
• Alexandra Calmy, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, UNIGE
• Piyush Singh, Counsellor, Embassy of India, Berne

 

The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020, a catalyst for change

11:00 - 12:00 (Swiss time)

• Howard Catton, Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN)
• Elisabeth Iro, Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
• Roswitha Koch Heepen, Board member, International Council of Nurses (ICN)
• Soosmita Sinha, Founder and President, Health Law Institute 

 

How can the world advance towards AI maturity in health? Novartis Foundation

12:30 - 13:30 (Swiss time)

• Kwasi Boahene, Director of Advocacy and Director of West Africa at the PharmAccess Group
• Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director; co-Founder, Women in Global Health
• Kanishka Katara, Head Digital Health (India), PATH
• Derrick Muneene, Head of Capacity Building and Collaboration, World Health Organization
• Lucy Setian, Associate Director HealthTech Innovation, Novartis Foundation

 

Contributing to human progress: Open Innovation for Infectious Diseases. Merck

12:30 - 13:30 (Swiss time)

• Kelly Chibale, Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, University of Capetown
• Natalie Mrak, Global Health Strategy & Partnerships Lead, Merck
• Benjamin Perry, Discovery Open Innovation Leader, DNDi
• Charles Randolph, Head, Global Health, WIPO
• Thomas Spangenberg, Head, Global Health Drug Discovery, Merck

 

COVID-19 : Geneva at the forefront of the epidemic response

14:00 - 15:00 (Swiss time)

• Christine Choirat, Chief Health Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center EPFL
• Manuela Cirilli, Leader Medical Applications in Knowledge Transfer Group, CERN
• Sana De Courcelles, Attachee Sante, Permanent Mission of France to the UN in Geneva
• Philippe Duneton, Executive Director UNITAID
• Antoine Flahault, Director if Institute of Global Health
• Emma Hannay, Director of Access & Lead, ACT-A Diagnostics Pillar at FIND
• Françoise Vanni, Director, External Relations and Communications, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

 

Promoting expert patients as co-creators and disseminators: Prior, during and after the pandemic

15:15 - 16:15 (Swiss time)

• Karen Alparce-Villanueva, Board Member, Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations (PAPO)
• Bisi Bright, CEO and Founder, LiveWell Initiative (LWI)
• Angela Grezet, Association Savoir Patient
• Neda Milevska Kostova, Board Vice Chair, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations (IAPO)

 

(Dis)United in crisis: Is Covid-19 the end of global health?

16:30 - 17:30 (Swiss time)

• Thomas Cueni, Director General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
• Robert Mardini, Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• Priti Patnaik, Editor, Geneva Health Files