Summit Agenda
Day 1 - February 6, 2013
8:30am - 9:30am - United Nations, 1st Avenue at 46th Street, Enter via Security Tent
Registration & Check-in
9:30am - 9:45am - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Welcome
Dr. Robert C. Bollinger, Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Amir Dossal, Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum
Mr. Amir Dossal, Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum
9:45am - 10:00am - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Opening Keynote
Dr. Hamadoun I. Tourι, Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
10:00am - 11:30am - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Plenary I - IT Infrastructure
How can fiber and wireless networks or other communication technologies be leveraged to improve medical education and support health care providers?
Moderator: Professor Francis Tusubira, CEO, UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Edcuation Networking
Speakers:
Ms. Kathryn C. Brown, SVP Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon
Mr. Gary Fowlie, Head of Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU
Mr. Jackson Hungu, Deputy Director, Clinton Healthcare Access Initiative
Mr. Donald Nyakairu, Regulatory & Government Affairs Officer, LAP Green Group
Mr. LeoPold Rweyemamu, CEO, DataCom Consulting Group
Speakers:
Ms. Kathryn C. Brown, SVP Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon
Mr. Gary Fowlie, Head of Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU
Mr. Jackson Hungu, Deputy Director, Clinton Healthcare Access Initiative
Mr. Donald Nyakairu, Regulatory & Government Affairs Officer, LAP Green Group
Mr. LeoPold Rweyemamu, CEO, DataCom Consulting Group
11:30am - 1:00pm - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Plenary II - Distance Learning Platforms
What is required to optimize distance-learning platforms to support health worker education in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Moderator: Dr. Richard Gakuba, Director of eHealth, Rwanda Ministry of Health
Speakers:
Dr. Relly Brandman, Course Operations, Coursera
Dr. Bakary Diallo, CEO/Rector, African Virtual University
Mr. A. Reza Jafari, Chairman and CEO, e-Development International
Speakers:
Dr. Relly Brandman, Course Operations, Coursera
Dr. Bakary Diallo, CEO/Rector, African Virtual University
Mr. A. Reza Jafari, Chairman and CEO, e-Development International
1:00pm - 2:30pm - United Nations, Ambassadors River View
Keynote Lunch** - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: IT Innovations and the Community Health Worker
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute of Columbia University
**Lunch for guests not attending the Keynote Luncheon will take place at One UN Hotel, 2nd Floor
**Lunch for guests not attending the Keynote Luncheon will take place at One UN Hotel, 2nd Floor
2:45pm - 4:00pm - ONE UN Hotel, 44th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues (directly across street from the United Nations)
BREAKOUT SESSIONS A
Breakout Session I - ICT and The Patient/Provider Relationship
Breakout Session I - ICT and The Patient/Provider Relationship
What is the impact of technology on communication, trust, and the patient-provider relationship?
Moderator: Ms. Adele C. Oliva, Partner, Quaker Partners
Speakers:
Dr. Patricia Abbott, Office of Global Affairs, University of Michigan School of Nursing
Dr. Andrew Litt, Chief Medical Officer, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences
Ms. Amy Lockwood, Deputy Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
Dr. Enawgaw Mehari, Founder and President, People to People, Inc.
Speakers:
Dr. Patricia Abbott, Office of Global Affairs, University of Michigan School of Nursing
Dr. Andrew Litt, Chief Medical Officer, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences
Ms. Amy Lockwood, Deputy Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
Dr. Enawgaw Mehari, Founder and President, People to People, Inc.
Breakout Session II - Institutional Capacity
What institutional capacity and incentives are necessary to support distance education for health professionals?
Moderator: Professor Nelson Sewankambo, Principal of Makerere College of Health Sciences, Chair of the Medical Education Parntership Initiative (MEPI) PI Counsel
Speakers:
Mr. Ndimangwa Fadhili, Information Technologies Supervisor, KCMC Medical Education Partnership Initiative
Dr. Esther Ogara, Head of e-Health, Kenya
Dr. Miriam Rabkin, Director for Health Systems Strategies at ICAP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health
Ms. Kelly Willis, Interim Executive Director, Senior Vice President, Global Health Programs, Accordia Global Health Foundation
Speakers:
Mr. Ndimangwa Fadhili, Information Technologies Supervisor, KCMC Medical Education Partnership Initiative
Dr. Esther Ogara, Head of e-Health, Kenya
Dr. Miriam Rabkin, Director for Health Systems Strategies at ICAP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health
Ms. Kelly Willis, Interim Executive Director, Senior Vice President, Global Health Programs, Accordia Global Health Foundation
Breakout Session III - Gender Empowerment
How can IT empower Women health Reasearchers and care providers?
Moderator: Dr. Amita Gupta, Associate Professor and Deputy Direct, Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education
Speakers:
Ms. Jessica Colaco, Research Lead, iHub
Ms. Caroline Mbindyo, e-Health Programme Program Manager, AMREF
Ms. Margaret Mongare, Team Lead, Biodesign Global Exchange Program, Stanford University
H.E. Mrs. Oluwatoyin Saraki, Founder, The Wellbeing Foundation
Speakers:
Ms. Jessica Colaco, Research Lead, iHub
Ms. Caroline Mbindyo, e-Health Programme Program Manager, AMREF
Ms. Margaret Mongare, Team Lead, Biodesign Global Exchange Program, Stanford University
H.E. Mrs. Oluwatoyin Saraki, Founder, The Wellbeing Foundation
4:0pm - 4:15pm - ONE UN Hotel, 44th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
Break
4:15pm - 5:30pm - ONE UN Hotel, 44th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
BREAKOUT SESSIONS B
Breakout Session I - Scalability and Sustainability
Breakout Session I - Scalability and Sustainability
What are the strategies to achieve program scalability and sustainability of ICT Innovations that will Support and empower health care workers?
Moderator: Dr. Esther Ogara, Head of e-Health, Kenya
Speakers:
Ms. Yvonne MacPherson, Executive Director, BBC Media Action USA
Ms. Caroline Mbindyo, e-Health Programme Manager, AMREF
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Co-Chair, One Million Community Health Worker Campaign
Speakers:
Ms. Yvonne MacPherson, Executive Director, BBC Media Action USA
Ms. Caroline Mbindyo, e-Health Programme Manager, AMREF
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Co-Chair, One Million Community Health Worker Campaign
Breakout Session II - Public Private Partnerships
What is nessecary to create high impact public private partnerships to support health provider education?
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Blander, Acting Deputy Director & Sr. Advisor, Private Sector Engagement, Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator
Speakers:
Mr. Ed Fantegrossi, Chair and CEO of EDCO/TellAlf
Ms. Florence Gaudry-Perkins, International Affairs Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Mr. Yonas Maru, Managing Director, Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group
Mr. Robert Noll, Director, Alvarez & Marsal
Speakers:
Mr. Ed Fantegrossi, Chair and CEO of EDCO/TellAlf
Ms. Florence Gaudry-Perkins, International Affairs Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Mr. Yonas Maru, Managing Director, Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group
Mr. Robert Noll, Director, Alvarez & Marsal
Breakout Session III - Social Networks
How can social media support the creation of "markets", demand for better health services, better care, from both providers and the community?
Moderator: Mr. John Forrer, Associate Director, Institute for Corporate Responsibility, George Washington University
Speakers:
Ms. Erica Kochi, Tech Innovation Lead, UNICEF
Ms. Taynah Reis, Vice President, New Frontiers of Cooperation Institute
Speakers:
Ms. Erica Kochi, Tech Innovation Lead, UNICEF
Ms. Taynah Reis, Vice President, New Frontiers of Cooperation Institute
Breakout Session IV - Leveraging Mobile Technology to Strengthen Health System
How can mHealth catalyze health system performance?
Moderator: Dr. Alain Labrique, Director of the Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative
Speakers:
Professor M. Abul Kalam Azad, Additional Director-General, Office of the DG of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
Mr. Sriram Bharatam, CEO & Founder, Iridium Interactive
Mr. Zachariah Jezman, Project Manager, Village Reach
Dr. Garrett Mehl, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization
Dr. Adam Slote, Senior Health Advisor, USAID/Global Health
Speakers:
Professor M. Abul Kalam Azad, Additional Director-General, Office of the DG of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
Mr. Sriram Bharatam, CEO & Founder, Iridium Interactive
Mr. Zachariah Jezman, Project Manager, Village Reach
Dr. Garrett Mehl, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization
Dr. Adam Slote, Senior Health Advisor, USAID/Global Health
Day 2 - February 7, 2013
9:00am - 10:00am - ONE UN Hotel, 44th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues (directly across street from the United Nations)
Check-in
10:00am - 11:30am - ONE UN Hotel, 44th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
BREAKOUT SESSIONS C
Breakout Session I - National and Institutional Policy and Regulation
Breakout Session I - National and Institutional Policy and Regulation
How can government and regional policies address optimization of the new infrastructure and IT capacity for the health care sector and health education?
Moderator: Mr. Gary Fowlie, Head of Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU
Speakers:
Ms. Alice Borrelli, Director of Global Health and Workforce Policy, Intel
Mr. Larry Irving, Co-Founder, The Mobile Alliance for Global Good
Mr. Mick Keyes, Senior Technologist, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard
Ms. Karen Schulder Rheuban, Director of University of Virginia Center for Telehealth
Speakers:
Ms. Alice Borrelli, Director of Global Health and Workforce Policy, Intel
Mr. Larry Irving, Co-Founder, The Mobile Alliance for Global Good
Mr. Mick Keyes, Senior Technologist, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard
Ms. Karen Schulder Rheuban, Director of University of Virginia Center for Telehealth
Breakout Session II - Distance Learning
What have been the barriers on the ground to adoption and scale up of existing models of e-learning/mHealth training methods and how can we collectively address those barriers?
Moderator: Mr. Tom O'Callaghan, Founder and CEO, iheed
Speakers:
Dr. Richard Gakuba, Director of eHealth, Rwanda Ministry of Health
Dr. Egbe Osifo-Dawodu, Partner, Anadach Group
Dr. Kathleen Page, Director, Latin American Programs, Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education
Dr. Kate Tulenko, Director, CapacityPlus
Dr. Deborah Van Dyke, Founder and Executive Director, Global Health Media Project
Speakers:
Dr. Richard Gakuba, Director of eHealth, Rwanda Ministry of Health
Dr. Egbe Osifo-Dawodu, Partner, Anadach Group
Dr. Kathleen Page, Director, Latin American Programs, Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education
Dr. Kate Tulenko, Director, CapacityPlus
Dr. Deborah Van Dyke, Founder and Executive Director, Global Health Media Project
Breakout Session III - Centers of Excellence for ICT in Health Education and Research Training
Can the creation of Centers of Excellence - that would serve as hubs for innovation, research, knowledge sharing and capacity-building in ICT help to catalyze better and smarter use of ICT in training the health care and health research workforce?
Moderator: Nalini Anand, Director, Division of International Science Policy Planning and Evaluation; Acting Director, Center for Global Health Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Speakers:
Dr. Susan Albright, Director, Technology for Learning in Health Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine
Dr. Seble Frehywot, Principal Investigator, MEPI Coordinating Center, George Washington University
Dr. Mubashar Sheikh, Executive Director, Global Health Workforce Alliance
Professor Francis Tusubira, CEO, UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking
Speakers:
Dr. Susan Albright, Director, Technology for Learning in Health Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine
Dr. Seble Frehywot, Principal Investigator, MEPI Coordinating Center, George Washington University
Dr. Mubashar Sheikh, Executive Director, Global Health Workforce Alliance
Professor Francis Tusubira, CEO, UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking
Breakout Session IV - Certification and Professionalism
How can distance education support efforts to harmonize national, regional and global training certification of all cadres of health providers and intraprofessional initiatives?
Moderator: Dr. Patrick Kelley, Director, Board on African Science Academy
Speakers:
Dr. Robert Bollinger, Director, Johns Hopkins Center For Clinical Global Health Education
Hon. A. Opendi, State Minister for Primary Health Care, Uganda
Ms. Samantha Parsons, General Manager, inPractice® Africa
Professor Nelson Sewankambo, Principal of Makerere College of Health Sciences, Chair of the Medical Education Parntership Initiative (MEPI) PI Counsel
Speakers:
Dr. Robert Bollinger, Director, Johns Hopkins Center For Clinical Global Health Education
Hon. A. Opendi, State Minister for Primary Health Care, Uganda
Ms. Samantha Parsons, General Manager, inPractice® Africa
Professor Nelson Sewankambo, Principal of Makerere College of Health Sciences, Chair of the Medical Education Parntership Initiative (MEPI) PI Counsel
11:30am - 1:00pm - ONE UN Hotel, 44th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues; 2nd Floor - Diplomat Ballroom
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Plenary III - mHealth Tools and POC Devices
Which new mHealth tools and point-of-care devices are needed to support providers in resource-limited settings and which existing platforms can/should be scaled up?
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Mechael, Executive Director, mHealth Alliance
Speakers:
Dr. Larry Chang, Co-Director, Science and Implementation, eMOCHA; Johns Hopkins University
Ms. Shawn A. Covell, Vice President, Wireless Reach Initiative, Qualcomm
Dr. Groesbeck Parham, Founding Co-Director, African Center of Excellence for Womens Cancer Control
Ms. Sandhya Rao, Senior Advisor for Private Sector Partnerships, USAID
Mr. Lee Wells, Head of Health Programs (Africa), Vodafone Foundation
Speakers:
Dr. Larry Chang, Co-Director, Science and Implementation, eMOCHA; Johns Hopkins University
Ms. Shawn A. Covell, Vice President, Wireless Reach Initiative, Qualcomm
Dr. Groesbeck Parham, Founding Co-Director, African Center of Excellence for Womens Cancer Control
Ms. Sandhya Rao, Senior Advisor for Private Sector Partnerships, USAID
Mr. Lee Wells, Head of Health Programs (Africa), Vodafone Foundation
2:30pm - 4:00pm - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Plenary IV - Leveraging Social Media
How can social media be leveraged to address the global health workforce gap?
Moderator: Ms. Jessica Colaco, Research Lead, iHub
Speaker:
Mr. Jeff Arnold, Chairman & CEO, Sharecare
Mr. Christoph Pimmer, Educational Researcher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Dr. Scott Ratzan, Vice President, Global Health, Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Kate Tulenko, Director, CapacityPlus
Ms. Sarah Wynn-Williams, Manager, Global Public Policy, Facebook
Speaker:
Mr. Jeff Arnold, Chairman & CEO, Sharecare
Mr. Christoph Pimmer, Educational Researcher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Dr. Scott Ratzan, Vice President, Global Health, Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Kate Tulenko, Director, CapacityPlus
Ms. Sarah Wynn-Williams, Manager, Global Public Policy, Facebook
4:00pm - 5:00pm - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Ministerial Forum
Moderator: Suvi Linden, Special Envoy, Broadband Commission for Digital Development*
Honorable Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu Birhane, Minister of Health, Ethiopia
Honorable Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of Health of the Republic of Rwanda (video message)
Hon. Sarah A. Opendi, State Minister for Primary Health Care, Uganda
Honorable Minister Muhammad Alit Pate, Minister of State for Health, Nigeria
Honorable Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu Birhane, Minister of Health, Ethiopia
Honorable Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of Health of the Republic of Rwanda (video message)
Hon. Sarah A. Opendi, State Minister for Primary Health Care, Uganda
Honorable Minister Muhammad Alit Pate, Minister of State for Health, Nigeria
5:00pm - 5:30pm - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Ambassador's Forum
TBD
TBD
Moderator: Mr. Amir Dossal, Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum
H.E. Mr. Tekeda Alemu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Eugθne-Richard Gasana, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Jean-Francis Regis Zinsou, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Benin to the United Nations and Chair of the LDC Group
H.E. Mr. Arthur Sewankambo Kafeero, Chargι d'affaires a.i., Permanent Mission of the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations*
H.E. Mr. Geir O. Pedersen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations*
H.E. Mr. Tekeda Alemu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Eugθne-Richard Gasana, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Jean-Francis Regis Zinsou, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Benin to the United Nations and Chair of the LDC Group
H.E. Mr. Arthur Sewankambo Kafeero, Chargι d'affaires a.i., Permanent Mission of the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations*
H.E. Mr. Geir O. Pedersen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations*
5:30pm - 5:45pm - United Nations, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 1
Closing Remarks
Summit summary and announcements of new partnerships and initiatives
Dr. Robert C. Bollinger, Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University
*Invited
**Ticket required.
**Ticket required.
