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Strengthening 21st Century Global Health Systems:Investing Strategically in the Health Care WorkforceSummit Co-Chairs: Ann E. Kurth, PhD, CNM, FAAN and Marilyn A. DeLuca, PhD, RN

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Welcome

Dear Honorable Ministers of Health, Honored Guests, Colleagues and Partners,

Our warm, most earnest welcome.

The Global Summit on Strengthening 21st Century Global Health Systems: Investing Strategically

in the Health Care Workforce could not be more timely.

Two weeks ago, many of us here today had the opportunity to participate in special sessions at the

United Nations on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The same week 1,200 individuals, including

50 heads of state, 450 business leaders and representatives from 500 non-governmental

organizations from across the globe attended the weeklong Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). In both

settings, the same message echoed: the time has come for all constituencies to step up and build

adequate numbers of educated, competent health workers, working within strong and efficient

health systems.

We need to strategically increase the number of all health cadres, from community volunteers up

through health care professionals including nurses, midwives, and physicians. A root-cause of the

lack of appropriate health care, be it for attended birth or dignified end of life, is the lack of health

care providers.

This message is not new. In recent years, some have worked to develop health care workforce

programs that have been accompanied by relatively minimal amounts of funding. Yet, today we

remain far from reaching the minimum target of 2.3 health workers per 1,000 people in the 57

highest need countries.

Importantly, we must strengthen global health systems and workforce in an era of continued

economic challenge. Therefore our investments must be strategic, and we must share lessons about

best practices.

You are here today to help take on this challenge. The solutions will be neither quick nor easy, as

this is a complex problem with many facets. But it is one that can be addressed and improved.

Over the course of the day you will hear from thought leaders, providers, and implementers on the

ground. They will share their best insights regarding successes as well as strategies that failed. Their

job is to help each of you better understand how you can help tackle this problem.

We are encouraged by your commitment to contribute to the improvement of world health.

Thank you for taking this issue to heart and then into action. We will only improve the health of

individuals and populations across the globe through our strategic investment of resources, political

will, collaborations, and tenacity.

Robert Berne Charles N. Bertolami Judith Haber

Executive VP for Health Dean, College of Dentistry Interim Dean, College of Nursing Ann E. Kurth Marilyn A. DeLuca Co-Chair, Global Summit Co-Chair, Global Summit

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Overview

Global health depends on strong health system

performance including the availability of an

educated, skilled, and motivated health care

workforce. Deep disparities exist in the number,

competencies and outcomes of health care

professionals and community health workers

globally. Worldwide, the gap between the

supply of health care workers and the growing

demand for health services prompted the WHO

to name this as the Decade of Health Care

Workers. The WHO (2006) estimates that 4.3

million nurses, midwives, doctors and public

health workers are needed to meet the needs-

based minimal target of 2.3 health workers per

1,000 people in 57 under-served countries.

Several million additional workers are required

if we are to move beyond the minimal ratio of

2.3 workers needed just to adequately provide

infant and child immunizations and to attend

women during childbirth. 1 An estimated

620,000 nurses and midwives are needed in

sub-Saharan Africa alone.

Health care professionals and community

workers constitute the backbone of health

systems in the public and private sectors.

They are the essential infrastructure that

provides hands on care and promotes healthy

behaviors. Historically, global funding for health

has targeted specific, primarily infectious,

diseases. Currently, the growing burden of non-

communicable disease (NCDs) and increased life

spans compound the already high demand for

health workers across the globe. Yet, economic

pressures and fiscal regulatory constraints

confound attempts by national and local

governments to grow and

retain their health care

workforce. Philanthropy and

public funding for global health

have typically not targeted

workforce development as part of health

system strengthening. In 2008, international

funding by US foundations tallied $6.2 billion2

with little directed at workforce development.

In recent years, several initiatives and reports

have urged action in this arena.3, 4, 5 The recent

report, Health Professionals for a New Century:

Transforming Education to Strengthen Health

Systems in an Interdependent World, outlines

strategies to redesign post secondary education

for nurses, physicians, and public health

professionals in order to impact health

outcomes.6 This report, like others before it, can

guide well-targeted investments in educating

the health care workforce. Many funders, both

private and public, have not yet deeply invested

in human resources. Reluctance among funders

Global health depends on strong health system

performance including the availability of an educated,

skilled, and motivated health care workforce.


Overview

springs, in large part, from the complex issues

related to human resources for health including

how can we most effectively educate, deploy

and retain health care professionals,

particularly nurses and other non-physicians

who deliver the bulk of primary care?

The Summit, Strengthening 21st Century Global

Health Systems: Investing Strategically in the

Health Care Workforce will focus on these

questions. Its goal is to bring the 21st century

health system strengthening through health

care workforce center-stage into the

conversation on global health philanthropy.

The Summit will serve as a platform for active

exchange among participants to identify

workable strategies to strengthen human

resources for health and to spark investment

and action by interested funders, foundations,

and institutions.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Articulate a range of strategic investments

that have the potential to efficiently

strengthen the global health care

workforce

2. Present, discuss, and learn from evidence-

based strategies for health workforce

development

3. Strengthen partnerships and scale up

collaborations and commitments among

funders and other organizations that can

effectuate health workforce strengthening

STRATEGIES:

1. Convene leaders of foundations, funders,

and select public and private

organizations

2. Draw on lessons learned from health care

workforce initiatives

3. Build lasting partnerships

4. Encourage collaborations around regional,

national or focused initiatives

5. Catalyze implementation of strategic

health care workforce initiative

© Save the Children, Community Health Worker, Mali, 2010


Summit Program

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Location: McKinsey & Company

Executive Conference Center, 21st Floor

55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022

Registration

11:15 – 11:45 am: 2nd Floor Atrium Reception Area

21st Floor Summit Welcome Desk

Session I

Session I Chair: Ann E. Kurth, PhD, CNM, FAAN

Co-Chair, Strengthening 21st Century Global Health Systems Summit

Professor, NYU College of Nursing

Executive Director, NYU College of Nursing Global

Welcome A Global University in the Public Service

11:45 – 12:00 pm

Speaker: Robert Berne, PhD

Executive Vice President for Health, New York University

LUNCH Executive Conference Rooms A, B, C

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Keynote Global Health & Health Workforce

12:00 – 12:30 pm

Speaker: Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD

Co-Chair, Global Commission

Educating Health Professionals for a New Century

Dean, Harvard University, School of Public Health

12:30 – 1:00 pm Growing National Human Resources for Health

Speaker: Ann Phoya, PhD, RNM

Director, SWAp Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Malawi

BREAK

1:00 – 1:15 pm


Summit Program

PANEL 1 Focus on Foundations: Strengthening Health Systems via the

Health Care Workforce

1:15 – 2:30 pm

Moderator: Dr. Mubashar Sheikh

Executive Director, Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA)

Participants: W. Edward Wood

President, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

Case Study: National Approach

Dr. Phuong Nhan Le

Director, Population Health Programme

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Case Study: Public Health and Primary Care, Viet Nam

Manisha Bhinge, MPA/ID

Program Manager, BRAC USA

Case Study: Community Workers, Bangladesh

Kasia Biezychudek, MBA

Chief Financial Officer, Touch Foundation

Case Study: Regional Approach, Tanzania

Break

2:30 – 2:45 pm

© Save the Children, community health worker referring child for hospitalization, Bangladesh


Summit Program

Session II

Session II Chair: Marilyn A. DeLuca, PhD, RN

Co-Chair, Strengthening 21st Century Global Health Systems Summit

Adjunct Associate Professor, NYU College of Nursing

Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine

2:45 – 3:45 pm Conversations with Thought Leaders: Engaging Funders in Human

Resources for Health

Moderator: Ellen Lambert, MAT, JD

Executive Director of Corporate Contributions

Executive Vice President, The Merck Company Foundation

Participants: Estelle Quain, PhD

Team Leader, Health Systems Strengthening, Office of HIV/AIDS

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Growing the Health Workforce: An Era for Public-Private Partnerships

Michael J. Bzdak, PhD

Director of Corporate Contributions, Johnson & Johnson

Enduring Commitments in Social Responsibility

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD

Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Ethical and Policy Considerations around the Health Worker Shortage

Carolyn S. Miles, MBA

President & Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children

Advocacy Models to Build the Health Care Workforce

Christy Turlington Burns

Founder, Every Mother Counts

3:45 – 4:15 pm National Health System Reform and the Health Workforce, Brazil

Speaker: Dr. Francisco Eduardo de Campos

Recent Secretary of Labor and Education Management in Health

Ministry of Health Brazil


Summit Program

PANEL 2 Collaborations: Partnerships, Sustainability, and Accountability

4:15 – 5:30 pm

Moderator: Dr. Lola Dare

Chief Executive Officer, CHESTRAD

(Centre for Health Sciences Training, Research, and Development)

Participants: Dr. Feng Zhao

Health Division Manager

The African Development Bank

Sustainability: Leadership and Management

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Accountability: MDGs, Metrics, Evaluation

Dr. Manuel Dayrit

Director, Department of Human Resources for Health

World Health Organization (WHO)

Transformative Education of Health Care Professionals

John Palen, PhD, MPH

Senior Technical Advisor, Human Resources and Health Systems

Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, US Department of State

Funding and Partnerships: Education of Health Professionals

Going Forward Summation, Strategies, Next Steps

5:30 – 6:00 pm

Speaker: Jeffrey L. Sturchio, PhD

Senior Partner, Rabin Martin

Recent President, Global Health Council

Cocktail Reception

6:00 – 7:00 pm


Our Partners


Co-Chair: Ann E. Kurth, PhD, CNM, FAAN

Ann Kurth is Professor at

NYU College of Nursing

(NYUCN) and Executive

Director of NYUCN

Global. Dr. Kurth was

graduated from

Princeton University (BA

magna cum laude) and is

trained in nurse-

midwifery (Yale University), population health

(MPH Columbia University), and epidemiology

(PhD University of Washington).

Professor Kurth is interested in behavioral

epidemiology and in developing tools to

improve reproductive health, as well as HIV and

other sexually transmitted infection (STI)

prevention, screening, and care. Her research

evaluates informatics, as well as staff-delivered,

approaches in studies conducted in the US and

internationally. She is principal investigator (PI)

of 4 NIH R01 funded-studies in Kenya including

a community-enrolled heterosexual couples

cohort (1R01 HD058363), a randomized

evaluation of a computerized counseling tool to

promote positive prevention and antiretroviral

adherence (1R01MH085577), a combination

HIV prevention for youth study (1R01AI094607),

and a study evaluating Kenya’s national needle-

exchange program (1R01 DA032080) – the very

first in sub-Saharan Africa. She also PIs a NIH

Challenge Grant for a phase IV study of a

Spanish-language computer tool for HIV

patients in NYC (1RC1MH088307). Another NIH

R01 (1R01DA030747) will adapt this tool to

facilitate rapid HIV and hepatitis C screening

and treatment in correctional facilities in the

US. She leads a substudy in Uganda

(RO1A1083034, Celum PI) to use cell phones for

home-based HIV testing and tailored prevention

referrals. She also leads a substudy in the HPTN

065 'Test and Treat Plus' study (El-Sadr PI) for

positive prevention in the Bronx and

Washington D.C. HIV clinics. Dr. Kurth is PI of a

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand

Challenges Explorations grant assessing vaginal

health in Kenyan women. Dr. Kurth is co-

investigator or consultant on a number of other

studies in New York, the US, India, Kenya, and

Peru.

Dr. Kurth edited one of the first books

published on women and HIV (Until the Cure,

Yale Press 1993). She reviews for sexual and

reproductive health, nursing, medical, and

public health journals and is an editorial board

member of the journal Sexually Transmitted

Diseases. She was a founding member of the

UW Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) behavioral

core; is currently is a member of the NYU CFAR

Executive Committee and lead for its

International Research working group; and is

Deputy Director of the Behavioral Interventions

Core, the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research

led by Dr. Sherry Deren at NYU. Dr. Kurth is a

standing member of the NIH behavioral HIV

study section (BSCH). Dr. Kurth served as

president of the national Association of Nurses

in AIDS Care (ANAC).

Dr. Kurth is a member of the Institute of

Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council

Committee on PEPFAR Evaluation. She was

inducted as a member of the American

Academy of Nurses and is also a Fellow of the

New York Academy of Medicine. Awards

received by Dr. Kurth include the Association of

Nurses in AIDS Care Achievement Award for

Nursing Leadership in AIDS Care, the University

of Washington Martin Luther King, Jr.

Community Service Award, and the NYS Nurses

Association Foundation Researcher Award.


Co-Chair: Marilyn A. DeLuca, PhD, RN

Marilyn DeLuca is

an Adjunct

Associate

Professor, College

of Nursing and

Adjunct Assistant

Professor, School

of Medicine at New York University. She is also

a consultant in the areas of health systems,

health workforce, and policy and philanthropy

related to health.

As founding Executive Director of the Jonas

Center for Nursing Excellence, Dr. DeLuca led

philanthropic programs around professional

nursing. During her tenure, she developed

innovative programs, led initiatives to inform

policymakers and the public on issues

challenging nursing including a PBS/ NOW

program on the national nurse shortage and a

Summit in the U.S. Senate. Her expertise

includes building cross-sector collaborations

around health issues, health systems, and

health workforce to enrich program capacity

and funding.

Dr. DeLuca practiced and held leadership roles

in critical care as Nursing Care Coordinator, in

Critical Care. She served on the management

team at the Veterans Health Administration as

Chief Operations Officer, NY/NJ Network, and

as Special Assistant to Directors at both the

Bronx and New York VA Medical Centers.

Her professional interests are global health,

health systems strengthening and workforce,

and reform policy. Dr. DeLuca consulted to the

American Red Cross, September 11th Grants

Program; Childbirth Connections; International

Longevity Center-USA, World Cities Project,

NYU Center for Global Health at the school of

Medicine and to family and national

foundations and non-profit organizations.

Dr. DeLuca holds a Masters in Public

Administration and a Masters in Nursing from

NYU and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from

Hunter College, CUNY. She earned a PhD in

Public Administration with a concentration in

comparative health systems and reform politics

from NYU, Wagner School of Public Service. Her

dissertation, Health Reform in Public Systems:

Recent Reforms in the UK’s National Health

Service and the US Veterans Health

Administration examines the impact of market-

based models of reform on public health

systems.

A recipient of grants from The New York

Community Trust, The John A. Hartford

Foundation, and The Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation, Dr. DeLuca received one of the first

dissertation grants awarded by

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Endowment for

her dissertation research. She frequently

lectures on health policy, access and coverage,

professional nursing, and public-private

partnerships for social change.

She is a member of the American Public Health

Association; International Council on Women’s

Health Issues (ICOWHI); a founding member of

the National Nurse Funders Collaborative

(NNFC), NYS Steering Committee on the Future

of Nursing and Women’s City Club of NY. She

serves on the Advisory Boards of Shine Global,

Inc. and the George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for

Philanthropy and Fundraising, NYU. A career-

long member of Sigma Theta Tau, Dr. DeLuca is

recipient of several awards for creative

leadership. In May 2008, she was inducted into

the Hunter College Alumni Hall of Fame.


Speaker Biographies

Robert Berne, a noted

scholar and expert on

public education, is the

Executive Vice President

for Health at New York

University. He is

responsible for working

with deans, University

leadership, and Boards on long-term academic,

financial, and operational strategies for the

wide range of health activities at NYU. Dr. Berne

is involved in various strategic issues at the NYU

Langone Medical Center and the NYU College of

Dentistry and College of Nursing including

academic direction, governance, long-term

financial and academic performance, and

organizational linkages. Dr. Berne has led the

development of NYU’s Masters in Global Public

Health degree, a unique six-school

collaboration, and is leading the establishment

of the NYU Global Institute of Public Health. He

has overseen NYU’s Center on Catastrophe

Preparedness and Response which draws on

faculty from all of NYU’s schools to address the

complex issues related to natural and man-

made disasters.

Dr. Berne previously held the positions of Senior

Vice President for Health from 2002 to 2009,

Vice President for Academic and Health Affairs

from 2000 to 2002 and Vice President for

Academic Development from 1996 to 2000.

From 1994 to 1997, he was dean of NYU's

Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public

Service, and served as associate dean from

1988 to 1993. In 1986, he was a recipient of

NYU's Great Teacher Award. He has been a

faculty member at NYU since 1976. He received

his BS (with distinction), his MBA and his PhD

from Cornell University.

Manisha Bhinge, program

manager at BRAC-USA,

works closely with the South Sudan and

Bangladesh country offices. She provides

strategic planning and program development

support for BRAC's programs, and has worked

on maternal and child health programming in

Bangladesh and West Africa.

Prior to joining BRAC she was with the Synergos

Institute, where she was responsible for

program development for Southern Africa and

Asia. She was instrumental in developing a

partnership with the Global Alliance for

Improved Nutrition to address child under

nutrition in Southern Africa. Manisha’s previous

experience includes several years at the

Corporate Executive Board; a best practices

management consultancy, where she led

initiatives with major Fortune 500 and Global

3000 organizations. She has also worked with

the United Nations Development Programme in

Hanoi, Vietnam. A native of Mumbai, India,

Manisha graduated from Harvard University’s

Kennedy School with a Masters in Public

Administration and International Development.


Speaker Biographies

Kasia Biezychudek is

Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer

(CFO) of Touch

Foundation, Inc.

Under the direction of

the President, the

CFO is responsible for

the financial

leadership of Touch Foundation, management

of the finance team members and oversight of

the financial reporting and fiscal policies of the

organization. As an officer and member of the

senior management team, Kasia plays an

integral role in the strategy and operations of

the organization. Kasia joined the Touch

Foundation in September 2007 as Senior

Associate and Director of Finance. She has

spent extensive time on the ground in Tanzania

working with the leadership and management

of Bugando University and Touch Foundation

program team.

Prior to joining Touch Foundation, Kasia was an

Investment Associate in the Central and Eastern

European Fund of Advent International and

prior to that, an Analyst in the Investment

Banking Division of Credit Suisse First Boston.

She spent three months working with the

United Nations Development Programme

country offices in India and Egypt, working to

identify opportunities for public – private

partnerships for economic development. Kasia

is a CPA, holds a BS in Finance and Accounting

from the University of Illinois at Champaign-

Urbana and an MBA from the Harvard Business

School.

Michael J. Bzdak, is

Director of Corporate

Contributions at

Johnson & Johnson and

manages the

Corporation’s volunteer

support program as

well as philanthropic

support of K-12 education, including a signature

school-to-career program. In addition, he

manages Johnson & Johnson’s corporate giving

in New Brunswick and in New Jersey. He is also

responsible for a global building healthcare

capacity strategy. Michael has been an

employee of Johnson & Johnson since 1990. He

serves on the Council on Foundations Corporate

Committee, the Conference Board’s

Business/Education Council, and the New Jersey

Business Coalition for Educational Excellence as

well as New Jersey’s Governor’s Advisory

Council on Volunteerism and Community

Service and the New Jersey AIDS Partnership Advisory Committee. Additionally, he has

served on the board of the Mid Atlantic Arts

Foundation as well as the New Jersey Council

for the Humanities where he completed a term

as chairman of the board of directors.

Dr. Bzdak, with three other Rutgers faculty

members, recently designed a new course on

community engagement for undergraduate

students supported by an Academic Excellence

Fund grant. He received a BFA from Virginia

Commonwealth University and an MA and PhD

from Rutgers University. He is a visiting part-

time lecturer in the Art History Department as

well as in the School of Communications and

Information Studies at Rutgers University and

an adjunct faculty member at New York

University.


Speaker Biographies

Lola Dare is the CEO of

the Centre for Health

Sciences Training,

Research, and

Development

(CHESTRAD). Dr. Dare

is a community

physician and medical

epidemiologist. She has been involved in health

policy research and systems development in

Africa with a focus on the identification of novel

strategies to engage communities, households,

and the wider African civil society in sustainable

development. Her activities have also involved

the identification of culturally sensitive and

adaptive mechanisms for community co-

financing and management in what is

implemented as the Oriade Initiative. The

African Regional Office of the World Health

Organization has awarded this Initiative as one

of the best NGO practice for Poverty and Health

in Africa in 2001. Dr. Dare was awarded the

2011 Award of Fellowship through

Distinction by the Faculty of Public Health in the

United Kingdom for her commitment to

strengthening Health Systems and processes.

She graduated MBBS from the College of

Medicine University of Ibadan in June 1985;

obtained an MS in Epidemiology (LSHTM) in

1991; awarded certificates in Population and

Development and International Health as David

E. Bell and Takemi Fellow of the Harvard School

of Public Health, USA in 1994 and 2000

respectively; fellow of the National

Postgraduate Medical College in the Faculty of

Community Medicine and member of the West

African Postgraduate Medical College in the

same Faculty. Dr. Dare also holds a certificate in

Advance Management from INSEAD, the

European Business School in France.

Manuel M. Dayrit

dedicated the last 30

years of his life working

to improve the health

of his countrymen.

Starting out as a

community physician

organizing village

health programmes in Mindanao, Southern

Philippines, he has served as epidemiologist,

civil servant, private sector executive, and

member of the Cabinet of the President of the

Philippines. He was Minister of Health from

2001 to 2005 when he ably led the Department

of Health to high levels of performance in the

face of tight budgets and difficult political

conditions. Coverage, quality and public

perception of public health services improved

markedly under his leadership. For these

contributions, he was recently awarded an

Honorary Fellowship by the London School of

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from which he

had obtained a Master of Science degree with

distinction in 1982. In his new role as Director

of the Department of Human Resources for

Health of the World Health Organization, Dr.

Dayrit is entrusted with new opportunities to

work in greater partnership with others who

share the passion to improve the health of

people everywhere.


Speaker Biographies

Francisco Eduardo de

Campos graduated in

Medicine at Federal

Univer sity of Minas

Gerais (UFMG), in

Brazil. He holds a

Master Degree in

Social Medicine and a

Doctoral Degree in Public Health. His first

assignment was to coordinate a national

research in Preventive Medicine Teaching in

Brazil from where he was invited to coordinate

the first massive Rural Internship, implanted in

UFMG - the biggest public medical college

within one of the most prestigious Brazilian

Universities. Upon the re-democratization of

Brazil he was invited to perform as Minister of

Health’s Secretary of Human Resources. Dr.

Campos was among the ones that launched the

proposal of unification of the Brazilian health

system, coordinating the Human Resources

Group in the National Commission of Health

Reform. He joined PAHO/WHO as a staff

member (based in Washington DC) and went

back to Brazil to coordinate the Nucleus of

Education in Public Health of the Federal

University of Minas Gerais. From 2005 to 2010

he took office as Secretary of Management of

Education and Workforce in health, responsible

for many programs. He represented Brazil in

WHO’s Executive Board. Nowadays Dr. Campos

holds a position as a Full Professor at UFMG and

is also the executive secretary of the Open

University of the National Health System. Dr.

Campos is a board member of the Global Health

Workforce Alliance and Co-Chaired the 2nd

Global Forum of Human Resources, held in

Bangkok last January.

Julio Frenk was

appointed as Dean of

the Faculty at the

Harvard School of

Public Health (HSPH)

and T & G

Angelopoulos

Professor of Public

Health and

International Development in January 2009, a

joint appointment between the Harvard

Kennedy School of Government and HSPH.

Dr. Frenk served as the Minister of Health of

Mexico from 2000 to 2006, where he

introduced universal health insurance. He has

also held leadership positions at the National

Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the

Mexican Health Foundation, the World Health

Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, and the Carso Health Institute. He

is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and

the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico. In

September of 2008, Dr. Frenk received the

Clinton Global Citizen Award for changing “the

way practitioners and policy makers across the

world think about health.”

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2008-releases/julio-frenk-receives-clinton-global-citizen-award.html


Speaker Biographies

Lawrence O. Gostin is

one of the world’s

leading experts in

health law. He is the

O’Neill Professor of

Global Health Law at

the Georgetown

University Law Center,

where he directs the

O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health

Law. He has also taught and held positions at

Harvard Law School, Oxford University, and

Johns Hopkins University. Professor Gostin has

been a leader in health policy matters at the

highest levels. He is a lifetime member of the

United States Institute of Medicine, which was

established by congressional charter to provide

independent health and scientific policy

recommendations to decision makers and the

public. In that capacity, he has served on the

Board on Health Sciences Policy and the

Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.

He currently chairs the Institute’s Committee on

National Preparation for Mass Disasters, and

has chaired committees on genomics and

privacy. He was a member of President

Clinton’s Task Force on National Health Care

Reform and chaired its health information

privacy and public health groups. He served for

8 years on the U.S. FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk

Management Advisory Committee, which

reviews and evaluates information on risk

management for drugs. He is a leader in global

health, and was appointed by Director General

Margaret Chan to serve on the International

Health Regulations Roster of Experts. He is also

a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on

Mental Health, and it’s Task Force on

Addressing Ethical Issues in TB Control.

Ellen W. Lambert is the

Executive Vice President,

The Merck Company

Foundation, and

Executive Director,

Merck Office of

Corporate Philanthropy.

She has primary

operational

responsibility for the Office of Corporate

Philanthropy and The Merck Company

Foundation, which together provide cash

contributions of between $50 - $70 million

dollars annually to a wide range of

organizations worldwide. She also has

responsibility for The Merck Institute for

Science Education, and The Merck Childhood

Asthma Network. Major initiatives include the

African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership in

Botswana, the Merck-China HIV/AIDS

Partnership, Merck Vaccines Network – Africa,

the UNCF/Merck Science Initiative, the

Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research

Program, the Merck Alliance to Reduce

Disparities in Diabetes, Rx to Fight Hunger, and

the Regional Strategic Grants Program, a new

initiative focused on community issues in the

developing world.

Ellen has 25 years of experience in philanthropy

and corporate citizenship, serving as Executive

Director of The Healthcare Foundation of New

Jersey, a private healthcare foundation as well

as Director of Corporate Relations and

Contributions at Roche, where she managed the

U.S. corporate reputation and contributions

program. Ellen received her BA from the

Newhouse School of Communications at

Syracuse University, an MAT from Tulane

University in New Orleans and a JD from Seton

Hall University School of Law.


Speaker Biographies

Phuong Nhan Le is

Country Director for

Viet Nam and

Programme Director of

the Population Health

Programme for The

Atlantic Philanthropies.

Dr. Phuong is

responsible for

Atlantic’s grant making and serves as the

primary liaison with government and other key

officials in Viet Nam. In his Programme Director

role, he has global responsibilities for sharing

the learning about the delivery of quality

primary health care in local communities,

especially for vulnerable populations, and

reducing inequities in care and health

outcomes. Dr. Phuong became a Programme

Executive and head of the office in Ha Noi in

2003. Prior to that, he consulted on Atlantic’s

grant making in the country. He played a key

role in the development of Viet Nam's health

infrastructure and human resources, and

helped to advocate for critical public health

policies, including a new helmet requirement

which quickly and significantly reduced injuries

and deaths among motorbike riders.

After starting his career as a physician in the

U.S., Dr. Phuong moved to Ha Noi to help

develop public health initiatives. In 1999 after a

chance (but fortuitous) meeting with Chuck

Feeney at a public health seminar, he joined

Atlantic. Dr. Phuong earned his BS degree in

Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of

Technology and received his MD from the

Medical College of Georgia. He completed his

residency in internal medicine/pediatrics at the

University of Cincinnati, and obtained his MPH

from Johns Hopkins University.

Carolyn S. Miles is

President & Chief

Executive Officer

for Save the

Children, the

leading

independent

organization

creating lasting change in the lives of more than

70 million children in need in the United States

and 120 countries around the world.

Carolyn joined the organization in 1998 and

spent the last seven years as COO. Earlier, she

worked in Hong Kong for American Express and

as an entrepreneur. In Asia, she confronted

massive deprivation of the region’s children and

committed herself to their welfare. She is

active on numerous boards, including

Blackbaud and the University of Virginia’s

Darden School of Business, where she received

her MBA.


Speaker Biographies

Babatunde Osotimehin

became the fourth

Executive Director of

UNFPA, the United

Nations Population

Fund on January 1,

2011. He holds the rank

of Under-Secretary-

General of the United

Nations. Prior to this appointment, Dr.

Osotimehin served as the Minister of Health of

Nigeria. Prior to that position, he was the

Director-General of the Nigerian National

Agency for the Control of AIDS, which

coordinates all HIV and AIDS work in a country

of more than 150 million people.

Dr. Osotimehin qualified as a medical doctor

from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1972,

and then went to the University of Birmingham

in the United Kingdom, where he got a

doctorate in medicine in 1979. He is a member

of the United Kingdom’s Royal College of

Physicians and was, between 1996 and 1997, a

visiting fellow at the Harvard Centre for

Population and Development Studies. In 2006,

he was inducted as a fellow of the prestigious

Nigerian Academy of Sciences. The new UNFPA

Executive Director was appointed as a Professor

at the University of Ibadan in 1980 and headed

the Department of Clinical Pathology before

being elected as Provost of the College of

Medicine of the same university in 1990. He

held the position until 1994.

Dr. Osotimehin’s interests include youth and

gender, within the context of reproductive

health and rights. He has hands-on experience in

working with development and civil society

organizations, having served as Coordinator of

the Social Sciences and Reproductive Health

Research Network, in Ibadan, Nigeria. It is an

interdisciplinary network of sociologists,

economists, doctors, lawyers and psychologists

dedicated to applying innovative research to

reproductive health and human development

issues. He has also coordinated and established

leadership training and research programmes

around reproductive health and development

issues. In recognition of his contributions,

especially as a leader of Nigeria’s response to

HIV and AIDS, he was awarded the national

honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger

(OON) in December 2005.

John Palen, serves

as the PEPFAR

Senior Adviser for

Human Resources

and Health Systems

in the Office of the

Global AIDS

Coordinator, US

Department of State, Washington, D.C. In this

capacity, Dr. Palen provides guidance and

oversight of PEPFAR HRH/HSS policies and

program activities, including: the development

of implementation of national and global

guidelines and related technical support and

program activities; centrally funded initiatives

including the MEPI and NEPI; targeted program

evaluation and monitoring; and other related

activities. Dr. Palen serves as the co-chair for

PEPFAR HRH Technical Working Group and the

co-chair for PEPFAR HSS Steering Committee.

Prior to his work at OGAC, John was the Senior

Care and Support Advisor for the Office of

HIV/AIDS at USAID, Washington, D.C. He has a

PhD and MPH from the Johns Hopkins

University, Bloomberg School of Public Health,

Baltimore, MD.


Speaker Biographies

Ann Phoya is

Director and

Member of the

Senior Management

team of the Ministry

of Health, Malawi.

Dr. Phoya is

responsible for

coordinating the

implementation of

Sector Wide

Approaches (SWAps) for the health sector. She

is also currently Acting Head of Planning and

Policy Development responsible for

development and monitoring of national health

plans, policies and guidelines, and the health

budget. Additionally, Dr. Phoya is Adjunct

Faculty in the Department of Maternal and Child

Health, University of Malawi and at Kamuzu

College of Nursing for the Master of Midwifery

Program; Chair of Malawi Partners Forum for

HIV/AIDS, and is responsible for guiding

implementation of the National Response to

HIV/AIDs; and Deputy Chair, board of Partners in

Hope Medical Center.

Dr. Phoya received her BSc in Nursing/Midwifery

from the Medical University of Southern Africa,

MSc in Family Community Health with a Role in

Nursing Education from Howard University, and

a PhD in Health Policy and Strategic Planning

with a clinical and research role in maternal and

infant health from Catholic University of

America.

Estelle Quain serves as

Senior Technical Advisor

for Human Resources for

Health and Team Leader

for Health Systems

Strengthening in the

Office of HIV/AIDS at the

U.S. Agency for

International

Development (USAID) in

Washington D.C. In this position, she is

responsible for overseeing USAID's health

systems strengthening and health workforce

development activities for HIV/AIDS programs

under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS

Relief (PEPFAR). Dr. Quain serves as the co-chair

of the PEPFAR HRH Technical Working Group

and the co-chair of the PEPFAR HSS Steering

Committee. Prior to joining USAID’s Office of

HIV/AIDS, Dr. Quain worked in training and

capacity development for reproductive health

programs for almost 20 years, including 10 years

in USAID’s Office of Population and

Reproductive Health. Dr. Quain is a member of

the Board of Directors of the Global Health

Workforce Alliance, and a member of the

editorial board of the Human Resources for

Health on-line journal. She holds a PhD from

Harvard University.


Speaker Biographies

Mubashar Sheikh, is a

medical doctor and a

specialist in health

system policy and

planning. Dr. Sheikh

started his public

health career in 1987

with the Ministry of

Health in Pakistan.

During this period he

managed different departments and

spearheaded various projects including the

flagship National Primary Health Care program

(also known as the Lady Health Workers

program). This initiative, the largest in social

sectors, was introduced in 1994 to ensure

universal access to essential health care at the

grass roots and underserved areas for the

provision of essential services including integrated

management of childhood illnesses, maternal

health, water and sanitation, nutrition and

promotion of healthy lifestyles. The program is

recognized by WHO as the ‘best practice’ among

its 192 member states and has so far been

replicated by many countries in Asia and Africa.

In 1998, Dr. Sheikh joined the Eastern

Mediterranean Office of World Health

Organization as Regional Adviser in the

department of Health Systems. In this position,

Dr. Sheikh also developed strategies for the

advocacy and implementation of Community

and Sustainable Development initiatives aimed

at reducing poverty and social inequalities. In

2004, Dr. Sheikh was assigned to WHO office in

Iran as Country Representative, where he also

served as Resident Coordinator of the UN

system as well as Representative for Food and

Agricultural Association.

At present, Dr. Sheikh is Executive Director of

the Global Health Workforce Alliance based at

the WHO Headquarters in Geneva. In this

capacity, he is playing the lead role for the

development of national policies and plans in 57

countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America aimed

at ensuring that all people, everywhere, have

access to skilled, motivated and supported

health workers within a robust health system.

Dr. Sheikh is chairing and also acting as member

of various expert committees and task forces at

the international and regional levels. He is the

author and co-author of numerous policy

documents, training manuals and guidelines. He

is also writing regularly in well-reputed journals

on various aspects of health systems and human

development.


Speaker Biographies

Jeffrey L. Sturchio is

senior partner at

Rabin Martin, a

leading global

consultancy working

at the crossroads of

health, and former

president & CEO of

the Global Health

Council. Before

joining the Council in 2009, Dr. Sturchio was

vice president of Corporate Responsibility at

Merck & Co. Inc., president of The Merck

Company Foundation and chairman of the U. S.

Corporate Council on Africa, whose 150

member companies represent some 85 percent

of total US private sector investment in Africa.

He is also currently a visiting scholar at the

Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health

and the Study of Business Enterprise at The

Johns Hopkins University, a senior associate of

the Global Health Policy Center at the Center

for Strategic and International Studies, a Fellow

of the American Association for the

Advancement of Science and a member of the

Council on Foreign Relations. He received an AB

in history from Princeton University and a PhD

in the history and sociology of science from the

University of Pennsylvania.

Christy Turlington Burns

is Director/Producer,

NO WOMAN, NO CRY,

Founder, Every Mother

Counts, Mom, Global

Maternal Health

Advocate, and Model.

With more than 25 years

at the forefront of the

fashion industry, having

graced every magazine cover from Vogue to

Time, Christy Turlington Burns has established a

diverse career as a model, writer, entrepreneur,

spokesperson, advocate and now filmmaker.

Philanthropy and service have long been a part

of Christy's personal and professional mission to

make a lasting impact on the world.

In 2005, she began working with the

international humanitarian organization CARE

and has since become their Advocate for

Maternal Health. She has also been an

Ambassador for (RED) since their launch in

2006. Her work on behalf of CARE and (RED)

inspired her to pursue an MPH at Columbia

University’s Mailman School where she is

currently enrolled.

In 2008, Christy began working on a

documentary film profiling the status of

maternal health worldwide. In her directorial

debut, Christy shares the powerful stories of at-

risk pregnant women in four parts of the world,

a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of

Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in

Guatemala, and a prenatal clinic in the United

States. NO WOMAN, NO CRY made its world

premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in

New York City and its US television broadcast

premiere on May 7, 2011 on the Oprah Winfrey

Network. Concurrent with the debut of her

documentary, Christy launched Every Mother

Counts, an advocacy and mobilization campaign

to increase education and support for maternal

and child health. Every Mother Counts seeks to

engage new audiences to better understand the

challenges and the solutions while encouraging

them to take action to improve the lives of girls

and women worldwide. The keystone of the

campaign is www.everymothercounts.org, an

interactive platform providing the tools to raise

awareness, education and action


Speaker Biographies

W. Edward Wood, of

Hope Valley, RI, and

Tubac, AZ, is Chief

Executive Officer of

the Clinton Health

Access Initiative.

Previously, he was the

first Chief Operating

Officer of the

Initiative, establishing

operations in six countries in Africa and 10

countries in the Caribbean. Until 1999, when

the company was sold, he was president and

CEO of Coaxial Communications Inc, which

operated cable television systems in Ohio,

Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois. Prior to

this, he was president of BDS Management Co.,

which oversaw ventures in cable television,

communications, publishing, environmental

services, real estate and manufacturing for a

private investment partnership. From 1983 to

1990, Mr. Wood was an international business

strategy consultant with Telesis headquartered

in Providence, RI. For most of the 1970s and the

early 1980s, Mr. Wood was in Rhode Island

state government serving for various periods as

chief of staff to the governor, Director of the

Department of Transportation, Director of the

Department of Environmental Management,

and Deputy Administrator of Public Utilities. Mr.

Wood has a degree in political science and an

MA in Japanese studies, both from the

University of Michigan. He served as a Captain

in the Marine Corps with service in Hawaii and

Vietnam and later was a reporter and editor for

the Associated Press and the Providence

Journal. Mr. Wood is a director of several non-

profits in Rhode Island and served as the

elected town moderator for Hopkinton, RI, for

more than 20 years.


Summit Attendees

Ann Lion

Director, HS20/20 Project

Abt Associates Inc.

Leah Ekbladh Senior Associate Abt Associates Inc.

Carol Spahn Executive Director Accordia Global Health Foundation

Peter O. Fasan Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences Africa University, Old Mutare

Feng Zhao Health Division Manager African Development Bank

Atef El Maghraby Chief, Health Human Resources Analyst African Development Bank

Karen Roush Clinical Managing Editor American Journal of Nursing

Phuong Nhan Le Programme Director, Population Health Program


Khahn Thuy Phan Programme Associate, Population Health Program


Manisha Bhinge Program Manager BRAC USA

Lola Dare Chief Executive Officer CHESTRAD

Ed Wood President Clinton Health Access Initiative

Anne Sliney Chief Nursing Officer Clinton Health Access Initiative

Patricia Collins Chief Development Officer Clinton Health Access Initiative

Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations

Trish Tweedley Director of Health Programs Investment ELMA Philanthropies

Christy Turlington Burns Founder Every Mother Counts

Clancy McCarty Every Mother Counts

Laura Rosen Manager, Membership & Advisory Services

GBCHealth

Lawrence O. Gostin Professor of Global Health Law Georgetown University Law Center

Michele Mittelman Editor Global Advances in Health & Medicine

Mubashar Sheikh Executive Director Global Health Workforce Alliance

Julio Frenk Dean Harvard School of Public Health

Lachlan Forrow President The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Gabon

Patrick Kelley Director, Boards on Global Health/ African Science Academy Development

Institute of Medicine

Juliana Hagembe International Lab Specialist Institute of Human Virology

Francesco Marinucci Director, Global Laboratory Program Institute of Human Virology

Joan Holloway Vice President, Global Health Initiatives International Assoc. of Physicians in AIDS Care

Kate Tulenko Director IntraHealth International, Inc.

Maurice Middleberg Vice President for Global Policy IntraHealth International, Inc.

Michael J. Bzdak Director, Corporate Contributions Johnson & Johnson

Mary O’Neil Senior Program Associate Management Sciences for Health

Anita Pirani Program Officer Management Sciences for Health

Ellen Lambert Executive Director, Corporate Contributions; Executive Vice President

The Merck Company Foundation

Carmen Hooker Odom President Milbank Memorial Fund

Heidi Bresnahan Director of Publications Milbank Memorial Fund


Summit Attendees

Francisco Eduardo de Campos Recent Secretary of Labor and Education

Management in Health Ministry of Health, Brazil

Ann Phoya Director, SWAp Secretariat Ministry of Health, Malawi

Marion Bergman Director, Healthcare Projects Miracle Corners of the World

Robert Berne Executive Vice President for Health New York University

Marcia Thomas Executive Director, Public Health Initiatives

New York University

Ellen Liberatori Senior Foundation Officer, Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations

New York University

Kathleen Zichy Deputy Vice President, Global Health, Science and Technology

New York University

Charles Bertolami Dean NYU College of Dentistry

Madeline Naegle Director, WHO Collaborating Center in Geriatric Nursing Education

NYU College of Nursing

Chris Kovner Professor NYU College of Nursing

Larry Siegel Director of Development NYU College of Nursing

Ann Kurth Professor and Executive Director, Summit Co-Chair

NYU College of Nursing Global

Marilyn DeLuca Adjunct Associate Professor, Summit Co-Chair

NYU College of Nursing Global

Malcolm Semple Dean NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science

John Donnellan Adjunct Professor, Health Policy and Management

NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Nathan Bertelsen Associate Medical Director Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture

Donna Shelley Clinical Associate Professor NYU School of Medicine

Lynn Videka Dean NYU Silver School of Social Work

Beth Weitzman Vice Dean NYU Steinhardt

Abbey Gardner Senior Advisor on Aid Delivery Partners in Health

Alison Pavia Executive Director Peter C. Alderman Foundation

Stephen Alderman Founder and Board Chair Peter C. Alderman Foundation

Paula Decola Senior Director, External Medical Affairs Pfizer, Inc.

Joaquin Mould HE & OR Director Latin America and Primary Care Emerging Market Business Unit

Pfizer, Inc.

Jeffrey L. Sturchio Senior Partner Rabin Martin (Former Global Health Council)

Carolyn Miles President and CEO Save the Children

Kasia Biezychudek Chief Financial Officer Touch Foundation

Daphne Teo Head, External Affairs Touch Foundation

Cherian Thomas Executive Secretary, Health and Welfare Ministries, General Board of Global Ministries

The United Methodist Church

Estelle Quain Team Leader, Health Systems Strengthening

U.S. Agency for International Development


Summit Attendees

Ishrat Husain Senior Health Adviser U.S. Agency for International Development

Babatunde Osotimehin Executive Director UNFPA

Amy Hagopian Assistant Professor U. of Washington School of Public Health

John Palen Senior Technical Advisor Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, US Department of State

Anita Boling Executive Director ViNa Village Network Africa

Manuel Dayrit Director, Department of Human Resources for Health

WHO

Ok Pannenborg Health Specialist World Bank (Former)

New York University College of Nursing Global

Nkiru Azikiwe Program Coordinator

Jasmine Buttolph Research Coordinator

Nok Chhun Program Coordinator

Adam Sirois Coordinator

Allison Squires Assistant Professor


References

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Cover and Back Page Photos: 1. Save the Children, Community Health Worker, Mali, 2010

2. Save the Children, Nutrition Nurse, Afghanistan

3. Global Health Workforce Alliance, Nurse Assessing Infant with Mother, Ghana, 2009

4. Save the Children, Community Health Worker Referring Child for Hospitalization, Bangladesh

5. Save the Children, Community Health Worker with Mother and Child, Malawi

6. Save the Children, Community Health Worker, Bangladesh

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