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Session Participants:
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Hoda Abou-Jamra
(Fellow)
Canada
Hoda Abou-Jamra is a founding partner of TVM Capital MENA, the regional healthcare private equity investment operation of TVM Capital. Her major responsibilities include the creation of the local operation, ... |
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Kathi Apostolidis
(Fellow)
Greece
Kathi Apostolidis is a destination marketing consultant at Independent Consultant and an associate consultant at Creation Healthcare. She also engages in community work, namely cancer patient advocacy ... |
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Gita Bamezai
(Fellow)
India
Gita Bamezai is presently professor and head of the Communication Research Department at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi. Her research interest focuses primarily on health communication ... |
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Heidi Behforouz
(Fellow)
USA
Heidi Behforouz is a primary care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital's Jen Center,executive director of the PACT Project, and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Heidi earned her MD ... |
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Zameer Brey
(Fellow)
South Africa
Zameer currently leads the South African Medical Association as its acting general manager. After he completed his training as a medical doctor, he proceeded to finish an MBA and PhD. His PhD thesis focused ... |
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Maria Carolina Casares
(Fellow)
USA
Carolina Casares currently works for the American Cancer Society as program director of Health Initiatives. Most recently, she completed a certificate program at the Disparities Leadership Program in ... |
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Chee Chan
(Fellow)
Malaysia
Chan Chee is a professor of health and development at Sains Malaysia University. He heads Health & Social Policy Research and chairs the Development Studies Program. His teaching and research interests ... |
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Wanicha Chuenkongkaew
(Fellow)
Thailand
Wanicha Chuenkongkaew serves as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Mahidol University, Thailand. She initiated research exploring the relationship between optic neuropathy and the mitochondrial genotype ... |
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Desiree Daniega
(Fellow)
Philippines
Desiree Daniega is the department head of the health services of Mapua Institute of Technology, Manila. She served as a lecturer at the Far Eastern University and as a medical consultant for the University ... |
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Pieter De Jager
(Fellow)
South Africa
Pieter de Jager completed a post-graduate diploma in Child Health and currently specializes in Public Health Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is interested in economics ... |
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Doncho Donev
(Fellow)
Macedonia - FYR
Doncho Donev serves as director of the Institute of Social Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, where he has been a regular/full-time professor of Social Medicine ... |
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Wojciech Dziworski
(Fellow)
Poland
Wojciech Dziworski currently serves as head of the sector "Innovation and Healthy Ageing" for the Directorate General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission (EC). The unit provides economic ... |
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Sawsan El Halabi
(Fellow)
Lebanon
Sawsan El Halabi has served as the nursing director of Makassed College of Nursing and Health Sciences since 1987. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Lebanese Osteoporosis Prevention ... |
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Rushika Fernandopulle
(Fellow)
USA
Rushika Fernandopulle is co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, a healthcare services company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA that is building new primary care practices which dramatically improve ... |
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Alexander Finlayson
(Fellow)
United Kingdom
Alexander Finlayson serves as head of Research at the Centre for Global Health at King's College London with an interest in Health Systems Strengthening in Fragile States. He is the deputy director of ... |
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Felix Greaves
(Fellow)
United Kingdom
Felix Greaves is a public health doctor working for the National Health Service in London. He previously worked as clinical adviser to the Chief Medical Officer for England at the Department of Health ... |
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Clemens Hong
(Fellow)
USA
Clemens Hong is a primary care physician and health services researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also practices primary care at a community health center. His research focuses on ... |
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Patrick Lee
(Fellow)
USA
Pat Lee co-founded and directs the Global Primary Care Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He serves as medical director of Tiyatien Health, providing health care and social services in rural ... |
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Siu Yuen Lee
(Fellow)
Hong Kong SAR
Miranda Lee currently serves as assistant director in charge of Food Surveillance and Control in the Department for Food and Environmental Hygiene for the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative ... |
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Wing Sing Leung
(Fellow)
Hong Kong SAR
Adolph Leung joined the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1995 and currently serves as principal economist in Economic Analysis and Business Facilitation Unit. He leads a team ... |
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Nur Lipoeto
(Fellow)
Indonesia
Indra Liputo serves as secretary and lecturer at the Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine at Andalas University, Indonesia. Her research interests are in the field of nutrition and public health. ... |
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Serena Marshall
(Fellow)
USA
Serena Marshall is an award winning multimedia freelance journalist currently based in Washington D.C. After receiving a Bachelor in Telecommunication-News Reporting in 2007 and a Master in Health Communication ... |
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Michael McGinnis
(Fellow)
USA
Michael McGinnis is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington and directs the University's Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. He also is an adjunct ... |
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Manish Mishra
(Fellow)
USA
Manish Mishra is currently a resident in psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He previously worked as a teaching assistant at in Psychology and lecturer in the Department ... |
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Dr. Niu Jianlin
(Fellow)
China
Jianlin Niu currently serves as assistant professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests include social demography, health ... |
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Cameron Nutt
(Fellow)
USA
Cameron Nutt is a fellow at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science and currently works as a research assistant to Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of Health of Rwanda. He graduated from Dartmouth ... |
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Anthony Onipede
(Fellow)
Nigeria
Anthony Onipede serves as head and associate professor of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is a very active member of the Nigerian Medical ... |
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Mihajlo Rabrenovic
(Fellow)
Serbia
Mihajlo Rabrenovic is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business Sciences, Megatrend University, Belgrade. He has consulting experience in various governmental organizations and public enterprises and worked ... |
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Tessa Richards
(Fellow)
United Kingdom
Tessa Richards is assistant editor at the British Medical Journal where she currently runs the Analysis and Comment section. Prior to joining the BMJ editorial staff she worked as a general physician ... |
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Moataz Saleh Ibrahim
(Fellow)
Egypt
Moataz Saleh is the personal assistant and head of the technical office for the Minister's Assistant for primary health care, preventive medicine and family planning. He is interested in the improvement ... |
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Dana Sarnak
(Fellow)
USA
Dana Sarnak currently lives in New York City, where she is a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). She is working with the technical division for the upcoming Global Review for the ... |
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Amr Sayed Ahmed
(Fellow)
Egypt
Amr Fouad is director of the National Training Institute at the Egyptian Ministry of Health & Population. He is also a Healthcare Marketing and Finance Instructor at the American University in Cairo, ... |
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Nicolas Senn
(Fellow)
Switzerland
Nicolas Senn currently works as project leader in the department of ambulatory care and community medicine of the University of Lausanne. After completing his training as a general practitioner in 2004, ... |
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Perisa Simonovic
(Fellow)
Serbia
Perisa Simonovic is state secretary of the Ministry of Health in the Republic of Serbia. He has been working at the Institute for Mental Health in Belgrade where he focuses on psychological changes of ... |
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Bright Simons
(Fellow)
Ghana
Bright Simons is president of the mPedigree Network, where he pioneered a system that allows consumers to instantly check whether their medicines are counterfeits by sending a free text message. He is ... |
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Rita Sood
(Fellow)
India
Rita Sood is a professor of Internal Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She has been actively involved with national bodies in her country and with WHO on issues pertaining ... |
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Stephen Thornton
(Fellow)
United Kingdom
Stephen Thornton is chief executive of The Health Foundation, an independent charity that wants to make the quality of healthcare in the U.K. the best it can be. He has 30 years' management experience ... |
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Fortunate Vilane
(Fellow)
South Africa
Fortunate Vilane is a programmes manager and health team leader at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), where she is involved in the crafting of the strategic vision. She brings a blend of ... |
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Claire Wagner
(Fellow)
USA
Claire Wagner is the research assistant to Agnes Binagwaho, the Minister of Health of Rwanda at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School. She studied Medical Anthropology ... |
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Paul Waibale
(Fellow)
Uganda
Paul Waibale is a physician and epidemiologist for Nigeria's SIDHAS. He has worked for over 23 years on public health issues in Africa. He has led programs focusing on strengthening comprehensive care ... |
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Fauzia Waqar
(Fellow)
Pakistan
Amgoori Drama" in Islamabad where she was team leader. She also recently published a study titled "Epidemiology of bone fracture across the age span in blacks and whites". She previously worked as a research ... |
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Keith Wimble
(Fellow)
South Africa
Keith Wimble is the manager of community health at Ikamva Labantu, a non-profit organization in Cape Town. He volunteers at Vodacom's Change the World Program, where he focuses on health education, health ... |