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Prescription for Progress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

7:30 a.m. PT | 10:30 a.m. ET | 4:30 p.m. CET

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About the Event

Prescription for Progress brings together leaders across sectors working on technology and innovation to advance global health.

Through illuminating journalism, expert analysis, and a series of discussions, it features — and inspires — partnerships between innovators and the global health community that are essential to accelerating progress on health outcomes for all. In February 2022, we gathered once again to dive into learnings about global health partnerships over the past year. What’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next?

Since the first edition of Prescription for Progress in October 2018, there has been growing awareness of the role Silicon Valley, and technology and innovation more broadly, must play to move the needle in global health. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing climate crisis have made it more critical than ever for cross-sector partnerships to leverage the power of technology in order to bridge gaps in global health. Innovation isn’t just found in the Bay Area, either, and is just as likely, if not more, to come out of Nairobi, Dhaka or Bogotá.

Prescription for Progress 2022 aims to connect the people at the center of these partnerships to bring solutions to scale in the COVID-19 response and long term recovery – and to accelerate progress on global health goals more broadly.

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Schedule

10:30 a.m. ET

From COVID-19 response to long-term recovery: How partnerships in health and tech are safeguarding the future [video]

10:32 a.m. ET

Opening remarks

Speakers:
• Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.
• Raj Kumar, president and editor-in-chief, Devex.

10:35 a.m. ET

Strengthening genomic surveillance in LMICs

Speaker:
• Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist, World Health Organization.

Moderator:
• Jenny Lei Ravelo, senior reporter, Devex.

10:45 a.m. ET

Technology and innovation in the COVID-19 response

Speakers:
• Simon Agwale, founder and CEO, Innovative Biotech; director, African Vaccine Manufacturing Initiative.
• Charles Gore, executive director, Medicines Patent Pool.
• Dr. Frederik Kristensen, deputy CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
• Petro Terblanche, managing director, Afrigen Biologics.

Fire starter:
• Jamie Bay Nishi, executive director, Global Health Technologies Coalition.

Moderator:
• Jenny Lei Ravelo, senior reporter, Devex.

11:15 a.m. ET

Future-proofing health systems in emerging economies
In partnership with AstraZeneca

Speaker:
• Leon Wang, international executive vice president, AstraZeneca.

Moderator:
• Raj Kumar, president and editor-in-chief, Devex.

11:25 a.m. ET

Taking digital health solutions to scale in LMICs

Speakers:
• Dr. Julian Atim, primary health care program lead, Global Health Labs.
• Dr. Ernest Darkoh, cofounder, BroadReach Group.
• Benjamin Fels, founder and CEO, Macro-Eyes.
• Safa Naraghi, vice president of delivery, Zenysis Technologies.

Fire starter:
• Natasha Sunderji, global health lead, Accenture Development Partnerships.

Moderator:
• Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.

11:55 a.m. ET

Innovative approaches to mental health — and how technology can help
In partnership with CETA

Speaker:
• Laura Murray, senior scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Moderator:
• Kate Warren, executive vice president, Devex.

12:05 p.m. ET

Putting the power of space in the hands of field teams taking health to the last mile

Speaker:
• Anna Winters, CEO, Akros.

12:10 p.m. ET

The future of health care innovation

Speaker:
• Vinod Khosla, founder, Khosla Ventures.

Moderator:
• Raj Kumar, president and editor-in-Chief, Devex.

12:25 p.m. ET

Working across silos to advance progress on other health priorities amid COVID-19

Speakers:
• Dr. Kesete Admasu, CEO, Big Win Philanthropy.
• Steve Adudans, founder and CEO, Gear Health Systems.
• Nithya Ramanathan, co-founder and CEO, Nexleaf Analytics.
• Pradeep Kakkattil, director, Programme Partnerships and Fundraising, UNAIDS.

Fire starter:
• Neha Agarwal, senior commercialization officer for diagnostics, PATH.

Moderator:
• Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.

12:55 p.m. ET

How digital tools can bridge the gap to strengthening mixed health systems
In partnership with MSD for Mothers

Speaker:
• Siddhartha Goyal, CEO, Nivi Inc.

Moderator:
• Rebecca Root, reporter, Devex.

1:05 p.m. ET

Scaling a virtual community of practice

Speaker:
• Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder and director, Project ECHO.

1:10 p.m. ET

What’s next in high-impact giving

Speaker:
• Neil Buddy Shah, managing director, GiveWell.

Moderator:
• Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.

1:25 p.m. ET

Transitioning toward climate-smart health care

Speakers:
• Joe Belliveau, executive director, Médecins Sans Frontières Canada.
• Gary Cohen, president and founder, Health Care Without Harm.
• Joy Phumaphi, interim co-CEO and board member, Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Fire starter:
• Iris Blom, liaison officer to the World Health Organization, International Federation of Medical Students Associations.

Moderator:
• Jenny Lei Ravelo, senior reporter, Devex.

1:55 p.m. ET

A conversation on One Health

Speaker:
• Dennis Carroll, leadership board chair, Global Virome Project.

Moderator:
• Jenny Lei Ravelo, senior reporter, Devex.

2:05 p.m. ET

Improving air quality through artificial intelligence

Speaker:
• Engineer Bainomugisha, project lead, AirQo.

2:10 p.m. ET

Taking global health solutions from discovery to development to delivery

Speakers:
• Krista Donaldson, CEO, Equalize Health.
• Amy Lin, acting director, USAID Center for Innovation and Impact.

Fire starter:
• Yousuf Mazhar, managing director, TEAMFund.

Moderator:
• Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.

2:30 p.m. ET

Closing remarks

Speakers:
• Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.
• Raj Kumar, president and editor-in-chief, Devex.

2:45 p.m. ET

Breakout sessions

Technology, innovation, and the COVID-19 response.

Speakers:
• Jamie Cohen, Institute for Disease Modeling research scientist, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Moderator — Stephanie Beasley, senior reporter, Devex.

Digital health tools — access, scale, and trust

Speakers:
• Martin Dale, director for digital health and monitoring, Population Services International.
• Rebecca Distler, strategist for artificial intelligence, data, and digital health, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
• Mairi Johnson, chief partnerships officer, Babylon Health.
• Mel Miles, senior director of strategic partnerships, Dimagi.
• Moderator — Catherine Cheney, senior reporter, Devex.

Advancing progress on other health priorities during COVID-19

Speakers
• Anthony Burn, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
• Pradeep Kakkattil, program partnerships and fundraising director, UNAIDS.
• Anne Stake, chief strategy and product officer, Medtronic LABS.
• Moderator — Sara Jerving, senior reporter, Devex.

Partnerships at the climate-health nexus

Speakers
• Dennis Carroll, leadership board chair, Global Virome Project.
• Dr. Bilal Mateen, digital technology senior manager, Wellcome Trust.
• Moderator — Rumbi Chakamba, associate editor, Devex.