Past Speakers:

Dr. Shahed Alam

Co-founder and co-CEO, Noora Health

Dr. Hanan Balkhy

Regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, WHO

Emily Bancroft

CEO and president, VillageReach

Dr. Anshu Banerjee

Director of the maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and ageing department, WHO

Caroline Boulton

Global program head, Novartis Pharma AG

Dr. Otto Cars

Professor emeritus, infectious diseases. Founder of ReAct- Action on antibiotic resistance, Uppsala University

Dr. Angela Chaudhuri

Chief catalyst, Swasti

David Chen

Co-CEO, Kapsule

Dr. Dixon Chibanda

Executive director, founder, Friendship Bench

Prof Awa Marie Coll-Seck

Chair of the Association Galien Africa, Former Senior Minister to the President of Senegal, Former Minister of Health

Alyoscia D'Onofrio

Vice president, head of Technical Excellence, IRC

Dr. Austin Demby

Minister of health, Republic of Sierra Leone

Dr. Lucica Ditiu

Executive director, Stop TB Partnership

Dr. Victor Dzau

President, National Academy of Medicine

Roland Driece

Director for international affairs, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Netherlands

Dr. Omnia El Omrani

Climate and health policyfellow, Imperial College London, and COP 28 health envoy

Edith Elliott

Co-founder and co-CEO, Noora Health

Thoko Elphick-Pooley

Executive director, Uniting to Combat NTDs

Dr. Neha Garg

Director of National Health Mission and Mental Health, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India

Dr. Githinji Gitahi

CEO, Amref Health Africa

Javier Guzman

Director, global health policy program and senior policy fellow, Center for Global Development

Anurag Hans

Head of mission at EssilorLuxottica and president at OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation

Mara Hansen Staples

Founder, Salient Advisory

Oghenetega Iortim

Managing director, Figorr

Dr. Mukesh Kapila

Professor emeritus, global health and humanitarian affairs, University of Manchester

Dr. Jean Kaseya

Director-general, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Mehmood Khan

Chief executive officer, Hevolution Foundation

Dr. Petra Khoury

Director, health and care department, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Jeremy Knox

Head of policy-infectious diseases, Wellcome

Nita Madhav

Senior director, head of epidemiology and modeling, Ginkgo Bioworks

Dr. Allen Maina

Chief of public health, UNHCR

Mohammed Mamunur Rashid

Joint secretary, health services division, Ministry of Health, Bangladesh

Shweta Narayan

International climate and health campaigner, Health Care Without Harm

Dr. Sania Nishtar

CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Dr. Georges Nko'Ayissi

National coordinator for the control of neglected tropical diseases, Cameroon Ministry of Health

Dr. Ebere Okereke

Chief executive officer, Africa Public Health Foundation

Dr. Oteri Okolo

Director/national coordinator of the National Eye Health Programme, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Abuja

Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate

Coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Nigeria

Smruti Patel

Founder and co-director, Global Mentoring Initiative

Joy Phumaphi

Executive secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA)

Dr. Fifa Rahman

Principal consultant at Matahari Global Solutions

Dr. Naveen Rao

Senior vice president of health, The Rockefeller Foundation

Amit Kumar Rawal

AWARE Europe business development, Qualcomm

Martha Rebour

Executive director of Shot@Life campaign, United Nations Foundation

Vicky Reed

Interim executive director, Partners in Health – Sierra Leone

Dr. Magda Robalo

President and co-founder, Institute for Global Health and Development

Dr. Marina Romanello

Executive director, Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, University College London

Hon. Mr. Budi G. Sadikin

Minister of health, Republic of Indonesia

Cyril Seck

Digital strategy advisor, Africa CDC

Dr. Micaela Serafini

Head of health, ICRC

Dr. Neil Buddy Shah

Chief executive officer, Clinton Health Access Initiative

Mayur U Shetty

Chief executive officer, Blackfrog Technologies Private Limited

Maryina Slobodnichenko

Deputy minister of health of Ukraine for European integration

Dr. Shams Syed

Head, policy and partnerships, WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care

Petro Terblanche

Chief executive officer, Afrigen Biologics

Lena Wahlhed

Director for alliance development and regional sales director for Japan, HemoCue AB

Dr. Monique Wasunna

DNDi Africa ambassador, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

Adam Weiss

Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center

Marian W. Wentworth

President and chief executive officer, Management Sciences for Health