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BREAKFAST |
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HIGH-TECH, LOW-TECH SOLUTIONS
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Atrium
During breakfast, morning break and lunch, visit the showcase of technologies that are instantaneously changing the equation in the developing world. Featuring: Bed Nets, CD4 Analyzer, Clean Delivery Kit, Inhaled Vaccine, Lab-on-a-card, Motorcycle for Health, Oral Rehydration Salts, PDA, Plumpy'nut, Portable Sterilization, Radios, Rapid Diagnostics, SoloShot Syringe, Uniject, Vial Monitor, Water Purifier
CIVIC LEADERS BREAKFAST DISCUSSION GROUP
The summit will bring together leaders of the America's civic groups to discuss their role in global health. How are civic groups evaluating new initiatives that might include global health? What is possible and what is realistic?
Lead discussants:
Steve Carr, Board of Governor and Chair of International Services Committee, American Red Cross
Ezra Teshome, Member, Rotary International, and Representative, The Rotary International Polio Eradication Program
Tim Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation
Moderator:
Christine Gorman, Senior Writer, TIME |
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TRANSITION TO ROSE HALL |
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SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES |
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TIME Editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt lays out the framework for the two days of discussion. He will highlight some of the successes in global health and outline the ten questions the program will address, the format, the stipulations, the role of moderators and the panelists.
Speaker:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Sciences Editor, TIME |
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GLOBAL HEALTH: 10 BIG QUESTIONS
The main agenda will be built around a series of solutions-oriented debates that will bring together representatives from many sides of an issue in a unique, breakthrough collaboration. When individuals cross silos, they can make immediate and sustainable change. There will be no presentations or speeches. We will focus each discussion on what works, what does not and how to move forward. |
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#1: HOW CAN MALARIA AND TB BE CONTAINED? |
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Real progress has been made in combating the diseases of poverty, such as smallpox, trachoma and guinea worm. But other diseases, like malaria and TB-which many in the developed world believe have been eliminated-are still major causes of death. If eradication isn't possible, then what will it take to contain these killers? Speakers consider the challenges and possible solutions.
Panelists:
Dr. Paul Farmer, Member, Board of Directors, Partners In Health/Program In Infectious Disease and Social Change
Dr. Maria C. Freire, President and CEO, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
Bishop João Somane Machado, United Methodist Church, Mozambique
The Hon. Charity K. Ngilu, Minister of Health, Republic of Kenya
Dr. Steven C. Phillips, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects Medicine and Occupational Health, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Moderator:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Sciences Editor, TIME |
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HEROES |
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At this time and at various points throughout the Summit, TIME will honor heroes of global health. Actor Glenn Close will introduce them.
Heroes:
Mufaweza (Mustari) Khan, Executive Director and Co-founder, Concerned Women for Family Development, Bangladesh
For 25 years, Mustari Khan has worked in the slums of Bangladesh persuading Muslim women to space their births and to use family planning. Khan and her colleagues have gone door-to-door in a society where women were unable to leave their courtyards. She convinces mothers-in-law and husbands that they don't need more than two children and that girl children have value. Working with CEDPA, she has worked for women's education, and promoted micro-credit opportunities for girls and young women to get job training and start small businesses.
Dr. Ngoma Miezi (Leon) Kintaudi, Director, SANRU/ IMA-ECC, Democratic Republic of Congo
As a young man in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Kintaudi watched his father die after several days of acute appendicitis because there was no doctor at the local hospital to attend to him. Kintaudi vowed to become a physician, eventually moving to the U.S., where he earned his undergraduate and medical degrees. But he never forgot the need for better medical care in the DRC and returned a few years ago to help reconstruct that war-torn country's health zones in a unique partnership between the government and the church community. Now the medical director of SANRU III (Sante Rurale, or Rural Health), Kintaudi oversees 56 health zones and the health of millions of people. In just three years, TB detection and vaccination rates have jumped significantly and more and more health zones have access to potable water.
Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc., USA
In 1978, as a lab director at Merck, Dr. Roy Vagelos authorized development of a drug to prevent river blindness (a parasite transmitted by black flies that spreads through the skin and into the eyes, causing progressive blindness). Vagelos knew that the 85 million poor either addicted with, or at risk of developing river blindness could not afford the drug. When Vagelos became CEO of Merck seven years later and finally was in the position to manufacture the drug, Mectizan, he couldn't find a sponsor. Consequently, Vagelos announced that Merck would give away the drug to all who needed it. By 2004, 17 years after the program began, more than 70 million people were being treated annually with Mectizan - mainly in Africa, but also in Latin America and Yemen.
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BREAK |
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#2: HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR THE NEXT PLAGUE? |
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Why do new diseases come from the developing world? If Ebola or Marburg become less virulent, they will spread more and faster. SARS and avian bird flu have taught us that disease knows no borders. What have we learned that can help prevent the next pandemic?
Speakers:
Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Michael J. Ryan, Director, Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Department, World Health Organization
Moderator:
Cynthia McFadden, Co-anchor, "Primetime Live" and ABC News Senior Legal Correspondent |
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#3: WHY DO 10 MILLION CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE? |
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They don't. Every year, more than 10 million children die totally preventable deaths. Six million of these lives could be saved by basic, cost-effective measures such as vaccines, antibiotics, micronutrient supplementation, insecticide-treated bed nets and improved breast-feeding practices. The world knows what it takes to improve child health and survival, but millions still die because they lack access to these basic services. Those who fight on behalf of children share what works, what doesn't and five ways to efficiently and effectively improve children's lives in the world's poorest populations.
Panelists:
Dr. Abhay Bang, Director, Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)
Dr. Charles MacCormack, President and CEO, Save the Children Federation
John L. McGoldrick, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Dr. Alfred Sommer, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Epidemiology, Ophthalmology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University
Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF
Moderator:
Deborah Roberts, Correspondent, ABC News 20/20 |
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LUNCH |
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MORE HEROES |
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Heroes:
Dora Akunyili, Head, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration, Nigeria
The drug czar has waged relentless war against counterfeit/adulterated medicines. She has turned down bribes, survived at least two attempts on her life and largely sanitized the drug business in Nigeria. Drugs worth millions of dollars have been seized and destroyed in the last few years.
Andrea Coleman, Co-founder/Director, Riders for Health, UK
You could say that motorbiking is in Andrea Coleman's blood. Her grandfather organized the first motorcycle racing event in Britain. Her father was a development engineer and her brother was a top British rider. She received her first road bike at the age of 16 and became a racer at 19. Together with husband Barry and American rider Randy Mamola, Coleman founded Riders for Health to tackle one of the biggest challenges to healthcare delivery in Africa: the lack of suitable, low-maintenance transportation for the dirt roads and tracks in many remote rural areas. Riders for Health has helped local health departments from Ghana to Zimbabwe acquire and maintain hundreds of motorcycles to make healthcare workers more mobile. One district in Zimbabwe saw its malarial death rate drop 20% in the first year after using the bikes to spread the use of mosquito nets and domestic insecticide spraying.
Mechai Viravaidya, Chairman, Population and Community Development Association, Thailand
A charismatic health economist from Thailand, Mechai helped to demystify condom use in Thailand in the 1980s, persuading Buddhist monks to bless them, children to blow them up, and taxi drivers to hand them out--in the interest of reducing population growth and spacing child births at least two years apart. Then he turned his attention to the AIDS epidemic, helping to persuade Thailand's leaders to face its growing crisis, and to address it through programs aimed at educating and helping drug dealers and commercial sex workers to find ways to avoid spreading the virus. |
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#4: BEYOND CHARITY: CAN GLOBAL HEALTH BE GOOD BUSINESS? |
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What can happen when on-the-ground social entrepreneurs create business opportunities? How can business entrepreneurs apply their expertise to the developing world?
Panelists:
Sir Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group Ltd.
Trevor Neilson, Executive Director, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Prof. C.K. Prahalad, Author, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," and Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor, The University of Michigan
Anuj Shah, Chief Executive Officer, A to Z
Moderator:
David Brancaccio, Host, PBS NOW |
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SESSION SWITCH BREAK |
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THREE CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS |
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PARTICIPANTS CHOOSE ONE: |
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A. #5: WHAT WILL IMPROVE THE FUTURE FOR WOMEN?
What does it take to allow women in the developing world to make choices about their lives, access resources to be educated, be safe from violence, earn an income, seek adequate health care and protect and raise children with the same freedoms? What solutions exist that can have an immediate and profound impact? Based on research and expertise, panelists share actions that populations are taking to improve women's lives. Discussion will be focused on reproductive health, maternal health, stigma, history and culture. What five changes can populations make to improve the future for women?
Panelists:
Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
Prof. David E. Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, and Chairman of the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Carol S. Larson, President and CEO, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer, International Partnership for Microbicides
Moderator:
Terry McCarthy, Los Angeles Bureau Chief, TIME
B. #6: CAN DRUGS BE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL?
How will drugs, vaccines and other health materials be more effectively developed, manufactured, distributed and priced for the developing world? Even the big drug companies differ in their approaches to these issues (e.g., differential drug pricing, compulsory licensing, attention to diseases that are rare or affect only the poor). There will be a debate on these issues involving people known to have differing, but well-reasoned, views.
Panelists:
Dr. Rowan Gillies, President, International Council, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Dr. Bernard Pecoul, Executive Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi)
Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Vice President, External Affairs, Human Health Intercontinental, Merck & Co., Inc.
Moderator:
Alice Park, Department Head, Sciences, TIME Magazine
C. #7: HOW CAN EVERYONE HAVE CLEAN WATER?
That 1.2 billion people-17% of the global population- lack access to clean water is one of the greatest development failures of the modern era. Nearly five million people die each year from diseases attributed to unsafe water, and 90% are children under five years old. Winning the battle against unsafe water and poor sanitation will greatly enhance the battle against all kinds of diseases. How do we win this war?
Panelists:
The Hon. Maria Mutagamba, Minister of State for Water, Uganda, And President, African Council of Ministers for Water
Sandra Postel, Director, Global Water Policy Project
Jeff Seabright, Vice President, Environmental and Water Resources, The Coca-Cola Company
Jeffrey F. Williams, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Vanson Halosource
Moderator:
Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine
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TRANSITION TO ROSE HALL |
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RECEPTION |
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