Secretary-General's Forum on
Advancing Global Health in the Face of Crisis
Programmes and speakers
Monday, 15 June 2009
(Trusteeship Council)
10.00 – 10:30: Opening Session: Global Health at a Time of Crisis
Statement by the Secretary-General of the United Nations | Video
Address by the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan
10:30 – 13:00: Protecting vulnerable populations
Moderator: |
Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF |
| Panellists: |
Lesego Motsumi, Minister of Health of Botswana David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India Sam Zaramba, Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health of Uganda Rajeev Venkayya, Director of Global Health Delivery , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Liya Kebede, The Liya Kebede Foundation |
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch (Delegates' Dining Room)
Launch of the 2009 Report of the Global Campaign for the Health MDGs, co-hosted by the Secretary-General, the Foreign Minister of Norway and The Lancet Speakers : Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary -General Margaret Simwanza Sitta, Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children of Tanzania Gloria Reuben, actor and social activist Summary: Ivan Lewis, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office , UK |
15:00 – 16:15 Building resilient health systems: strengthening delivery from global to local
Moderator: |
Julio Frenk, Dean of Harvard School of Public Health and Former Health Minister of Mexico |
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Panellists: |
Richard Sezibera, Minister of Health of Rwanda Ivan Lewis , Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom Joy Phumaphi, Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank David de Ferranti, President, Results for Development Institute Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation |
16:20 – 17:40 Enhancing coherence: toward multi-stakeholder strategic partnerships
Moderator: |
Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS |
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Panellists: |
Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health of South Africa Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, The Global Fund Ray Chambers, Special Envoy for Malaria Julian Lob-Levyt, Executive Secretary, GAVI Alliance Michael Joseph, CEO, Safaricom Tore Godal, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway on Global Health |
17:45 – 18:00 – Closing remarks
Secretary-General of the United Nations | Video