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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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8:00 am -
9:00 am
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- Innovative options for health insurance financing
- Leveraging the private sector to increase the affordability of care
- Performance-based financing strategies
- Strengthening the leadership capacity of the health sector
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Alexander S. Preker, MD, PhD
Head of Health Industry and Investment Policy
World Bank Group
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Onno Schellekens
Managing Director, Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA) (The Netherlands);
Chairman, Medical Credit Fund (MCF), 2010 Winner of the G-20 SME Finance Challenge
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9:00 am -
9:45 am
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9:45 am -
10:40 am
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- The role of talent development and training in the successful scale up of high quality, low cost health care ventures
- Addressing the Millennium Development Goals for infant and maternal mortality in Bangladesh and Kenya through a sustainable education and training model
- Innovations in sustainable education: Developing women into effective health care professionals and change agents in their community to improve both capacity and capability in human resources for health
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Anant Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
LifeSpring Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. (India)
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Monica Oguttu
Executive Director
Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET) (Kenya)
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Prof Barbara Parfitt, CBE PhD MSc
Director of Global Health, Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland) ;
Founding Principal, Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing (Dhaka)
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10:45 am -
11:40 am
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| The Not-for-Profit Health Care Innovators Series at the WHCC World Health Innovations Summit is a stimulating and interactive forum for not-for-profit health care innovators to present solutions to unmet health care needs to foundations, potential grant providers, health care executives and other potential financiers. Innovators present their emerging initiatives on stage and answer audience questions about their projects, and audience members are welcome to meet with the presenters upon completion of the series. This is an excellent opportunity to view exciting, emerging health care initiatives in the not-for-profit health care innovations sector.
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Prof Barbara Parfitt, CBE PhD MSc
Director of Global Health, Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland) ;
Founding Principal, Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing (Dhaka)
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Una S. Ryan, PhD, OBE
President and Chief Executive Officer
Diagnosis for All (United States);
Former President and CEO, Waltham Technologies, Inc.;
Former President and CEO, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.;
Board Member, AMRI; IQuum; Rhapsody Biologics;
Business Advisory Board, BIO Ventures for Global Health;
Business Advisory Board, Genocea, Inc.
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Md. Imamus Sultan
Managing Director, Grameen Kalyan;
Managing Director, Grameen Health Care Services Limited
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Meg Wirth
Founder and CEO
Maternova
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11:45 am -
12:30 pm
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- The role of technology in improving the costs and patient outcomes of chronic disease management
- Preventing disease exacerbations, complications, hospitalizations, and invasive procedures by preventing conditions from worsening through remote monitoring
- Study results from a scalable, virtual medical home model to reduce the long term costs associated with hypertension
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J. Mark Lambright
Chief Executive Officer
Healthpoints, Inc
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Gerrie van Zyl
Founder and CEO
healthbridge (South Africa)
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12:30 pm -
1:15 pm
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- mHealth: From planning to execution to scalability - Experience and lessons learned from TeleDoctor- a Medical Call Center Pakistan
- Strategic approach towards developing a National eHealth Policy, road map and deployment plan in the light of the WHO world assembly resolution and Millennium Development Goals
- Innovative technologies for improved medical and emergency response through mHealth platforms
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Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed
National Coordinator of Telemedicine and eHealth, Ministry of Health (Pakistan);
Focal Person for eHealth, World Health Organization;
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Service Pvt. Ltd
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Josh Nesbit
Executive Director and Co-Founder
FrontlineSMS:Medic FrontlineSMS:Medic (Malawi)
Named Devex’s 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development
Truman Award Winner for Innovation from the Society for International Development
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1:15 pm -
2:00 pm
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- New technologies and scientific insights that provide powerful approaches to develop highly effective and cost-effective vaccines, and address long-standing and emerging threats to public health
- Maximizing the impact of vaccine development efforts by matching product profiles to recipient needs and the health care infrastructure for vaccine delivery
- Critical elements for expedited vaccine development and sufficient supply delivery at the most affordable price
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Anthony W. Ford-Hutchinson, PhD
Senior Vice President, Vaccines Research and Development
Merck Research Laboratories (United States)
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