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SCIENCE SUMMIT 2024: 17 - 27 September, New York

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Wednesday September 25, 2024 8:00am - 2:00pm EDT
Video will become available 10 minutes before session start


One Health Plenary - Schedule 
The full abstract can be seen in the attached file below. 

08h00       Opening Session  
  • Declan Kirrane  Chairman and Managing Director of both the Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly and the Africa Europe Science Collaboration Platform (AERAP)
  • Shakuntala Thilsted Director of Nutrition, Health and Food Security Impact Platform Area, CGIAR
  • Kenneth Fleming Steering Committee of The Lancet Commission on Diagnostics 
  • Motlalepula Matsabisa University of Free State, South Africa 
  • Nia Reviani Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs, Indonesia
  • Peter Kilmarx National Institute for Health (NIH)
  • Henriette Van Eijl Deputy Director / Head of Unit for Health and Societal Transitions, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation at European Commission
  • Facundo Santomé MDPI
  • Litha Magingxa President and CEO: Agricultural Research Council

09h00         Panel 1 International ethical principles for biobanking & secondary research use of human biospecimens and associated data
  • Rita Lawlor ARC-Net, University of Verona
  • Mark Barnes Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard 
  • Helen Morrin University of Otago
  • Annette Schmid Takeda Pharmaceuticals 
  • Mayumi Kusunose RIKEN

09h45        Summit of the Future
  • Magdalena Skipper Nature 
  • Ramanan Laxminarayan One Health Trust
  • Arshnee Moodley CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub and AMR Team lead at the International Livestock Research Institute
  • Leonardus Vergutz Chief Innovation Officer, OCP Group
  • Andrew Barnhill IQVIA Barnhill, Andrew 
  • Krisha Patel Dana Farber Cancer Institute 
  • Kurt Zatloukal Medical University Graz 
  • Nishka Sharma UNGA Youth Parliament Lead
  • Brian O’Connor Chair at ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector

    10h45            Panel 2: Kooth (Mental Health) - Session title: Tackling the youth mental health crisis
  • Tim Barker CEO Kooth
  • Norman Lamb former Government Minister for Health and now Chair of South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
  • Mike Schlossberg Pennsylvania State Representative
  • Autumn Boylan Deputy Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships - California Department of Health Care Services

11h30          Medical Research Council of South Africa and NCD
  • Ntobeko Ntusi South African Medical Research Council
  • Rizwana Mia Senior Program Manager and Vice Chair of The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed)

12h30            Panel 3 Financing for Development
  • Lise Korsten President, The African Academy of Sciences 
  • Michael Makanga Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking 
  • Misaki Wayengera Uganda MoH Scientific Advisory Committee on Epidemics  
  • Mosoka Fallah Director of Science and Innovation, Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

13h15             The Policy and Regulatory to Enable One Health
  • Eugene Richardson Planetary Health Lab at Harvard Medical School 
  • Juli Makanie Imperial College London 
  • Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri Open Origin & Shakti Regeneration Institute, Amazon 
  • Irene Aninye Society for Women's Health Research 
  • Kirsten Mathieson Transform Health

13h40          Conclusion 
  • Remi Quirion Medical University Graz
  • Alex Cahana ImpactRooms, Founding Partner
  • Hamisi Kigwangala National Assembly of Tanzania
  • Dwita Nitoya Esterini Harvard Medical School 
Speakers
avatar for Kirsten Mathieson

Kirsten Mathieson

Deputy Director and Policy Lead, Transform Health
Kirsten Mathieson is the Deputy Director and Policy Lead at Transform Health, a global coalition of more than 200 organisations that advocate, campaign and build consensus to strengthen the enabling environment for the digital transformation of health systems to achieve Universal... Read More →
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Alex Cahana

Founding Partner, ImpactRooms
Dr. Alex Cahana specializes in Web 3.0 transformation, in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDE). He is a founding partner at ImpactRooms, a Blockchain and Healthcare Expert for the UN/CEFACT, a Board member at AdanianLabs Africa and ACHA (Americas Continental Health Alliance... Read More →
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Litha Magingxa

President and CEO, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa
Dr. Magingxa is the President and CEO of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa.  He is tasked with the redirection, revisioning and repositioning of the ARC, working with the Council and management team.  He previously served the ARC as Group Executive: Agri-Economics... Read More →
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Tim Barker

Kooth
With over 30 years of experience in the B2B software industry, Tim has helped build and scale SaaS industry leaders. In his journey from Software Engineer to CEO, Tim founded Koral, a pioneer in online collaboration (acquired by Salesforce), led EMEA Marketing at Salesforce to scale... Read More →
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Norman Lamb

Chair, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Former Member of Parliament for North Norfolk (2001-2019), now embarking on new challenges outside of Parliament, continuing to campaign for improvements in mental health services as Founder of the Sir Norman Lamb Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund in Norfolk and Chair of the South... Read More →
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Mike Schlossberg

Pennsylvania State Representative
Representative Schlossberg is committed to a strong and vibrant Pennsylvania serving the best interests of people, not special interests. He knows what we all know: Pennsylvania works best when workers are paid a fair wage, have good health care, live in a safe and affordable home... Read More →
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Autumn Boylan

Deputy Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships - California Department of Health Care Services
Autumn Boylan M.P.H. (she/her/hers/they) is a recognized public health and Medicaid expert and Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). Putting equity and access at the center of her leadership, Ms. Boylan... Read More →
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Misaki Wayengera

Scientific Advisory Committee on Epidemics, Uganda MoH
Dr. Misaki Wayengera is a Medical Doctor with Graduate Training in Immunology, Clinical Microbiology, and Vaccinology. He is fellow of the Human Genetics and Genomics Programme run by the US National Human Genome Research Institute-NHGRI. He has a PhD in Pathogen OMICS, and EDCTP-Post-Doc... Read More →
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Eugene Richardson

Planetary Health Lab, Harvard Medical School
Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD is a physician and ecological anthropologist based at Harvard Medical School, where he is Assistant Professor and Director of the Planetary Health Lab. His research focuses on the structural determinants of epidemics and climate change vulnerability. He... Read More →
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Hamisi Kigwangalla

National Assembly of Tanzania
Hon. Dr. Hamisi Kigwangalla, MP is a Member of Parliament representing Nzega Rural constituency in the Tanzanian National Assembly. He is a parliamentarian with a background education in science. He is a trained Medical Doctor and a Public Health Scientist with postgraduate degrees... Read More →
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Mark Barnes

Partner, Ropes & Gray, LLP
Mark Barnes—named the 2019 Financial Times “Legal Innovator of the Year”—is a preeminent thinker and adviser to universities, medical centers, health care and life sciences companies, and investors. He has extensive experience guiding clients on legal issues related to research... Read More →
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Helen Morrin

University of Otago
Helen Morrin is the curator of the Cancer Society Tissue Bank.
avatar for Mayumi Kusunose

Mayumi Kusunose

RIKEN
Mayumi Kusunose is a visiting scholar from the Laboratory for Biomedical Ethics and Co-Design at RIKEN Center for the Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan. She is also an Asian Network liaison member of the Ethics Working Group of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA; https://www.humancellat... Read More →
avatar for Leonardus Vergutz

Leonardus Vergutz

Chief Innovation Officer, OCP Group
Dr. Leonardus Vergütz is the Corporate Chief Innovation Officer at OCP Group, a leading international company providing essential nutrients and innovative solutions to soil, plant, and animal health. His role is to orchestrate the innovation across the different business units to... Read More →
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Facundo Santomé

Senior Marketing Manager, MDPI
Facundo Santomé is a Senior Marketing Manager at MDPI with over seven years of experience shaping marketing strategies in the scientific publishing industry. He combines his business and marketing acumen with a deep understanding of the scientific landscape to advance MDPI’s global... Read More →
avatar for Mosoka P. Fallah, PhD, MPH, MA,

Mosoka P. Fallah, PhD, MPH, MA,

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Dr. Mosoka Fallah is the Acting Director for the Science and Innovation Directorate at Africa CDC, focusing on enhancing health security and innovation across Africa. He is dedicated to transforming Africa’s R&D and clinical trial landscape through strategic financing, effective... Read More →
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Rizwana Mia

Senior Program Manager -Precision Medicine, South African Medical Research Council
Rizwana Mia is a leader in health innovation with 16 years of experience, combining scientific expertise and strategic thinking with her educational background in Genetics & Business Administration. She directs and develops programmatic research and innovation in Precision Medicine... Read More →
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Kurt Zatloukal

Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, former Director of BBMRI.at, Medical University Graz
Prof. Kurt Zatloukal is full Professor of Pathology and Head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. His research focuses on digital pathology and biobanking, the development of molecular diagnostics as well as the... Read More →
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Rémi Quirion (moderator)

Chief Scientist of Quebec, Office of the Chief Scientist of Québec
Professor Rémi Quirion is the inaugural Chief Scientist of Quebec since July 2011. As such, he chairs the Fonds de recherche du Québec and advises the Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy on research and scientific development issues. As of September 2021, he is the president... Read More →
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Peter Kilmarx

Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center (NIH)
Dr. Kilmarx is deputy director of the Fogarty International Center. He joined Fogarty on July 1, 2015; he was acting director of the Fogarty International Center and acting associate director for international research at the National Institutes of Health from January 2023 to May... Read More →
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Rita Lawlor

Vice Director, ARC-Net, University of Verona, Italy
Rita Lawlor is a Computer Science graduate of Trinity College Dublin with a doctorate in Oncological Pathology from the University of Verona where she is co-founder of the ARC-Net (www.arc-net.it) applied cancer research centre where is director of the ARC-Net biobank and coordinates... Read More →
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Kenneth Fleming

Steering Committee, The Lancet Commission on Diagnostics
Dr Kenneth Anthony Fleming, DPhil, MA(Oxon), MB ChB, FRCPath, FRCP, is an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.He has been an academic pathologist for over 40 years. His research interests include the pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, and... Read More →
avatar for Julie Makani (MD, PhD, FRCP, FTAAS)

Julie Makani (MD, PhD, FRCP, FTAAS)

Principal Investigator, Imperial College London
Professor Julie Makani is a physician scientist in Tanzania, Principal Investigator in the Sickle Cell Programme at Muhimbili University www.muhas.ac.tz and Sickle Pan African Research Consortium (SPARCO) Clinical Coordinating Centre (CCC), SickleInAfrica http://www.sickleinafrica.org... Read More →
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Motlalepula Matsabisa

Professor and Pharmacology IKS Research Director, University of the Free State, South Africa
Prof Matsabisa is currently the Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (Health) Lead Programme (IKS) within the Department of Pharmacology, School of Clinical Medicine, and Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Free State. Prof Matsabisa is a Guest Professor at... Read More →
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Declan Kirrane

Chairman and Managing Director of the Science Summit and Founder of ISC Intelligence
Declan is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science and holds prominent roles as the Chairman and Managing Director of both the Science Summit and the Africa Europe Science Collaboration Platform (AERAP). He is also a co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF... Read More →
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Magdalena Skipper, PhD.

Nature Research (Publishing)
As Editor in Chief, Magdalena leads Nature’s magazine and research editorial teams. A geneticist by training, she has considerable editorial and publishing experience: having started in Nature Publishing Group in 2001, she was Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, Senior Editor... Read More →
avatar for Irene. O Aninye, PhD (Convenor)

Irene. O Aninye, PhD (Convenor)

Society for Women's Health Research
Dr. Irene O. Aninye is the Chief Science Officer for the Society for Women’s Health Research, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing women’s health through science, policy, and education. Aninye steers SWHR’s portfolio of scientific programs to increase awareness and investment... Read More →
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Michael Makanga

Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking
Dr Michael Makanga started his tenure as the Executive Director of Global Health EDCTP3 on 16 November 2023. He has extensive experience in the global health research sector and was previously the Executive Director of the EDCTP Association. He is a clinician-scientist with nearly... Read More →
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Prof. Lise Korsten

President, AAS, University of Pretoria
Professor Korsten is the President of the AAS and Co-Director at the Department of Science and Innovation, Centre of Excellence in Food Security. She chairs the Global Task Force of Food Security for the International Society for Plant Pathology and has addressed the South African... Read More →
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Dwita Nitoya Esterini

MMSc in Global Health Delivery, Harvard Medical School
Dwita is a devoted general physician from Indonesia committed to improving community health with experience conducting studies in urban and rural areas. She works with a solid aim to ensure the presence of an opportunity for all to have access to health services. With her particular... Read More →
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Andrew Barnhill

IQVIA
Andrew Barnhill is a health care government affairs executive with experience at Fortune 500 companies and a diverse set of healthcare coalitions and political campaigns at the state and federal level. Named by "The Hill" as a Top Lobbyist in two consecutive years (2022 and 2023... Read More →
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Annette Schmid

Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Annette Schmid, PhD, is a Sr Director Global Science Policy at Takeda where she focusses on policies related to biospecimen, data, AI and innovative scientific approaches in clinical trials. She has 25+ years of experience as a scientist in academia and industry, co-founded the S... Read More →
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Ramanan Laxminarayan

One Health Trust
Ramanan Laxminarayan is the founder and president of the One Health Trust, founded as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP). He is a senior research scholar at Princeton University. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, senior associate... Read More →
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Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri

Founder, Shakti Regeneration Institute, Open Origin
Indrani is a transdisciplinarian filmmaker, founder, futurist, human rights and ecosystems advocate, impact innovator, TEDx speaker, and movement mobilizer, awakening public consciousness and transforming culture for a more just, equitable, and regenerative future.  Her work has... Read More →
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Nishka

UNGA Youth Parliament Lead
Nishka Sharma is a SWENexter who is passionate about promoting women in STEM and increasing student access to STEM fields.
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Nia Reviani

Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs, Indonesia
dr Nia Reviani, MAPS, is the Assistant Deputy for Healthcare Delivery Enhancement, Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs, Indonesia. Her background as a physician and public health professional led her to various global meeting related to health. She also... Read More →
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Brian O'Connor

Chair, Chair at ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Brian has developed his career as a consultant, manager, and investor. He has worked and lived in the UK, US, and Hong Kong and has significant experience as a company director in a variety of sectors. He also acts as a Corporate Doctor, to help... Read More →
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Krisha Patel

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
CS + Bio @ Harvard | Coca-Cola Scholar 2021
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Arshnee Moodley

CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub and AMR Team lead at the International Livestock Research Institute
Arshnee is the AMR Team lead at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, and jointly holds an Associate Professorship at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work centers on optimizing antimicrobial use indifferent livestock value chains, understanding... Read More →
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