World Congress, Strategic Leadership for the Health Care Industry
Strategic Leadership for the Health Care Industry
October 22, 2005
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EXCLUSIVE: Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus on: “Global Health Advances”.
A Speech by Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank at the 2005 World Health Care Congress.
Day One Day Two Day Three

Keynote Agenda

Day One - MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
The Global Perspective

ISSUES:

  • The global imperative to increase access
  • Successful new partnership models for development and global deployment of medicine in developing countries
  • Partnerships with the Gates Foundation and WHO to expedite development and to establish sustainable pricing
  • In-depth review of the Malaria vaccine's success to date
  • Application to development of AIDS vaccine
   
Moderator:
Victoria G. Hale, PHD
Founder and CEO
OneWorld Health
 
J.P. Garnier, PHD
Chief Executive Officer
GlaxoSmithKline
 
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Concurrent Open Forums and By-Invitation-Only Summits
 
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
International Epidemics

ISSUES:

  • Impact of health care epidemics on developing and developed nations
  • Analysis of the response to SARS
  • The role of international communication to control epidemics
  • State powers that limit civil liberties and how to impose isolation and quarantine
   
Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
 
David L. Heymann, MD
Representative of Director-General for Polio Eradication; former Executive
Director, Communicable Diseases,
World Health Organization
 
6:10 pm – 6:45 pm
Update on Microfinance and Its Success in Improving Economic and Health Status in Developing Countries
   
Muhammad Yunus
Founder and Managing Director
Grameen Bank
 
6:45 pm – 8:00 pm
WELCOMING RECEPTION WITH EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION SERIES (TBA)
 
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