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EVIDENCE FOR EMERGING CRISES: How international collaboration and innovation can solve global humanitarian crises, such as Ebola
This plenary explores how evidence generated through international collaboration and innovations can solve emergent global crises and what is needed to prepare for future epidemics, using Ebola as an example.
Stephen Kennedy:
Stephen Kennedy trained in general medicine, infectious disease epidemiology and biomedical research, and international health in Liberia, the United States and Zambia. He has nearly two decades of experience in public health, prevention research, biomedical and clinical-based research, and clinical trials in HIV/AIDS, STDs, Malaria, Tuberculosis, community health, and Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). He also has nearly three decades of experience as a public health practitioner and medical doctor in sub-Saharan Africa.
Keynote title: Ebola outbreak in West-Africa: Did evidence make a difference on the ground/ for our people?
Vasee Moorthy:
Vasee Moorthy is an infectious diseases physician, immunologist and product developer, with previous experience working as a clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford, for PATH in the USA, and as a general medical officer at HlabisaHospital, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. His current position at WHO is as both Team Lead for the data sharing and target product profile workstreams of the R&D Blueprint, and also as Coordinator, Research, Ethics, Knowledge Uptake at the Department of Information, Evidence, Research at WHO HQ.
Keynote title: The global R&D response to the Ebola outbreak. What did we learn?
John-Arne Røttingen:
is the Chief Executive of the Research Council of Norway and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Oslo, an MSc from Oxford University and an MPA from Harvard University. His areas of expertise include working with health policy and health systems with emphasis on how evidence can inform global decision-making.
Keynote title: The establishment of CEPI – a new broad coalition for developing vaccines to stop future epidemics
Jodi Nelson:
Jodi Nelson has been Senior Vice President of Policy and Practice at International Rescue Committee (IRC) since February 2015. Jodi served as the Head of Strategy, Measurement and Evaluation at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for six years, working across programme areas in global health, development, advocacy, and U.S. education. Prior to working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jodi spent eight years at the IRC, where she led an initiative to bridge the gap between academics and aid workers to strengthen the quality of data used to effect and measure change in post-conflict countries. She founded the IRC’s department of Research, Evaluation and Learning.
Keynote title: How strengthen public health and social infrastructure for future epidemics?
Threaded special sessions:
Session 7: Evidence matters: examples of evidence-based decision making in humanitarian emergencies and how it can be improvedUsing storytelling to describe the use of evidence-based decision making in the humanitarian context, explain why some interventions are used despite a lack of evidence and discuss how evidence is interpreted differently in different contexts. The session will also consider how evidence-based decision making can be improved in the humanitarian sector. Friday 15 September 2017 - 11:00 to 12:30. To sign-up, click on the title. |
Session 8: Refugee crisis in health and societyLebanon hosts more than 1.5 Syrian refugees, and is the country with the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide. Dr. Elie Akl, chair of the session, will start with a description of the protracted Syrian crisis. This will be followed by three presentations to provide illustrative examples about the interventions used in Lebanon to address different aspects of the crisis. Audience discussion will take place after each presentation. Friday 15 September 2017 - 11:00 to 12:30. To sign-up, click on the title. |
Session 9: Climate change in focus: Incorporating evidence synthesis methodology into environmental decision-makingA practical session featuring two presentations and group discussions about understanding how evidence synthesis methods can benefit climate change research, and coming up with ideas about how evidence synthesis methods can contribute to anticipating and addressing policy needs related to climate change. Friday 15 September 2017 - 11:00 to 12:30. To sign-up, click on the title. |