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ISC and its partners organised the 9th edition of the Science Summit around the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) on 12-29 September 2023.
The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be the central theme of the Summit. The objective is to develop and launch science collaborations to demonstrate global science mechanisms and activities to support the attainment of the UN SDGs, Agenda 2030 and Local2030. The meeting will also prepare input for the United Nations Summit of the Future, which will take place during UNGA79 beginning on 12 September 2024.
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Wednesday, September 13
 

8:45am EDT

[IN-PERSON] One Health Research: addressing the complex health challenges facing our society, such as ecosystem degradation, food system failures, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (130801)
Limited Capacity full
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Agenda (Version at 05h12 ET 13 Sept)

ONE HEALTH PLENARY
09h00
Declan Kirrane, ISC, Chair Science Summit UNGA78
Seema Kumar, CEO, CURE

09h10 Keynote 1
Prof Dr. Damalie Nakanjako
Principal of the College of Health Sciences – Director of the network ADAPT, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

09h25 Keynote 2
Dr Ghada Trotabas, Managing Director UK and Ireland, Siemens Healthineers

09h40 PANEL 1
What does an enabling policy and regulatory framework for One Health look like, and how can it be achieved in time for the post-SDG Agenda?

Moderator
Brian Wong, WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies and FIND Diagnostics
Panel
Dr Rita Lawlor, ARC-NET : Centre for Applied Research on Cancer
Mr Brian O'Connor, Chair, ECHAlliance
Prof Dr. Uwe Truyen, Director of the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health – Co-Director of the network ADAPT, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Josef
Prof Kurt Zatloukal, Medical University of Graz, Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine

10h15 Keynote
Dr. Sanjeev Khosla, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, India, Director (V)

10h30 PANEL 2
How can measures to achieve One Health be inclusive?
Moderator
Dr Magdalena Skipper
Panel
Dr Natasha Sunderji, Accenture
Dr Sharif Muhammad, ICESCO (V)
Dr Salome Charalambous, Implementation Research, The Aurum Institute Johannesburg, South Africa, Group Chief Science Officer – Director of the network TB Sequel


11h20 Break

11h30 Keynote 4
Dr Mosoka Fallah, Africa Center for Disease Control (V)

11h45 PANEL 3
Recommendations for the Summit of the Future

Moderator
Ms Rita Lawlor, ARC-Net, University of Verona
Panel
Dr Moses Aloba, Science for Africa
Dr Michael Makanga, EDCTP
Dr Marcel Tanner, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and EDCTP, President (V)
Dr Litha Magingxa, President and CEO, Agricultural research technologies for climate resilience (V)

12h30 Keynote 5: Reflections
Dr Irene Norstedt, Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
12h40 Concluding Remarks:
Dr. Anna Stewart Ibarra

Speakers
avatar for Michael Makanga

Michael Makanga

Executive Director, European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnerships - Association
Dr Michael Makanga, MD PhD FRCP: EDCTP Executive Director.Dr Makanga is a clinician-scientist with 28 years of professional experience of working on health and poverty-related infectious diseases in Africa. This includes 24 years of work experience on medical product development and... Read More →
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declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →
avatar for Seema Kumar

Seema Kumar

CEO, The Cure
Seema Kumar joined Cure Experience in 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer.Prior to Cure, Ms. Kumar spent nearly 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in senior leadership roles, including most recently as the Global Head, Office of Innovation, Global Health and Scientific Engagement, and served on J&J’s Innovation Strategy... Read More →
avatar for Prof Dr. Damalie Nakanjako

Prof Dr. Damalie Nakanjako

Principal of the College of Health Sciences – Director of the network ADAPT, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Damalie Nakanjako is a professor of medicine and the principal of the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University (Uganda), as well as the previous dean of the School of Medicine. She has over 22 years’ experience in HIV/AIDS care on different platforms. These include community... Read More →
avatar for Ghada Trotabas

Ghada Trotabas

Managing Director of Great Britain and Ireland, Siemens Healthineers
Ghada Trotabas Managing Director of Great Britain and IrelandSiemens Healthineers Ghada Trotabas, has devoted her professional life to healthcare, working to make care more precise, more local, more digital, and more compassionate.She currently serves as Managing Director of Great... Read More →
avatar for Prof Dr. Uwe Truyen

Prof Dr. Uwe Truyen

Director of the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health – Co-Director of the network ADAPT, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
After studying veterinary medicine in Germany (1981–1986), Uwe Truyen did his post-doctoral studies in Hanover and Munich and studied as a post-doctoral fellow in Colin Parrish’s lab at the Baker Institute of Cornell University (USA). He is currently a professor of animal hygiene... Read More →
avatar for Irene Norstedt

Irene Norstedt

Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Irene Norstedt works at the European Commission, where she is the Director responsible for the People Directorate within the DG for Research and Innovation.The People Directorate works towards developing a healthy, safe, more equal, free, open and fair society where the voice of the... Read More →
avatar for Kurt Zatloukal

Kurt Zatloukal

Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Director of BBMRI.at, Medical University of Graz
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D. is a professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and is head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine. His research focuses on the molecular pathology of diseases as well as biobanking and related technologies. He coordinated... Read More →
avatar for Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the CEO of the National Research Foundation of South Africa.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with specialisation in Computational Intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts... Read More →
avatar for Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Chair, ECHAlliance
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Brian developed his career as a consultant, manager and investor. He has worked in the UK, the US and Hong Kong and has significant experience as a company director in various industries.He has acted as a Corporate Recovery Advisor to companies with... Read More →
avatar for Marleen Temmerman

Marleen Temmerman

Professor, The Aga Khan University, Kenya
Prof dr Marleen Temmerman, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCOG, FAAS, MBS, AAS, AAAS, NAM, leads the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya. Prior she was the Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization... Read More →
avatar for Magdalena Skipper

Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief, Nature, Springer/Nature
Dr Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for the Nature portfolio.A geneticist by training, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having worked as Chief Editor of Nature... Read More →
avatar for Natasha’s Sunderjee

Natasha’s Sunderjee

Global Health Lead, ADP, Accenture
Natasha Sunderji is the Global Health and Nutrition Lead for Accenture’s social impact practice – Accenture Development Partnerships. She also co-leads Accenture’s Health Equity Center of Excellence. By engaging Accenture’s global workforce of over 700,000 employees, she works... Read More →
avatar for Prof. Dr. Salome Charalambous

Prof. Dr. Salome Charalambous

Group Chief Science Officer – Director of the network TB Sequel, Implementation Research, The Aurum Institute Johannesburg, South Africa
Salome Charalambous is the group chief scientific officer at the Aurum Institute in South Africa. She is a medical doctor with an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). She has been involved in TB and HIV programme implementation... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Sanjeev Khosla

Dr. Sanjeev Khosla

Director, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, India
Dr. Sanjeev Khosla received his Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. For his postdoctoral studies, he worked in the Babraham Institute and the Gurdon Institute (formerly Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research-UK Institute, Cambridge, UK. His laboratory’s research... Read More →
avatar for Mosoka Fallah

Mosoka Fallah

Africa Center for Disease Control
Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah, most recent position before joining SLL Project of Africa CDC was a short-term Health Security Technical consultant for the World Bank, where he worked on Pandemic diagnostics for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the Context of COVID-19. He also served as a... Read More →
avatar for Marcel Tanner

Marcel Tanner

President and High Representative EDCTP, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and EDCTP
Professor Marcel Tanner was Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute from 1997 to 2015 and is now President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in medical biology from the University of Basel and an MPH from the University of London. Lived and worked... Read More →
avatar for Litha Magingxa

Litha Magingxa

President and CEO, Agricultural research technologies for climate resilience
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 →
avatar for Carlos Américo Pacheco

Carlos Américo Pacheco

CEO, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Electronic Engineering (ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 1979), Master (1988) and PhD (1996) in Economics (UNICAMP) and Pos-doc in Economics (Columbia University, 2005).Carlos Pacheco is professor of economics at the UNICAMP.Carlos Pacheco was Deputy Minister of Science... Read More →

Convenors
avatar for declan kirrane

declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →


Wednesday September 13, 2023 8:45am - 1:00pm EDT
Cure by Deerfield

8:45am EDT

[VIRTUAL] One Health Research: addressing the complex health challenges facing our society, such as ecosystem degradation, food system failures, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (130801)
Agenda (Version at 05h12 ET 13 Sept)

ONE HEALTH PLENARY
09h00
Declan Kirrane, ISC, Chair Science Summit UNGA78
Seema Kumar, CEO, CURE

09h10 Keynote 1
Prof Dr. Damalie Nakanjako
Principal of the College of Health Sciences – Director of the network ADAPT, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

09h25 Keynote 2
Dr Ghada Trotabas, Managing Director UK and Ireland, Siemens Healthineers

09h40 PANEL 1
What does an enabling policy and regulatory framework for One Health look like, and how can it be achieved in time for the post-SDG Agenda?


Moderator
Prof Kurt Zatloukal, Medical University of Graz, Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine

Panel
Dr Rita Lawlor, ARC-NET : Centre for Applied Research on Cancer
Mr Brian O'Connor, Chair, ECHAlliance
Prof Dr. Uwe Truyen, Director of the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health – Co-Director of the network ADAPT, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Josef

10h15 Keynote
Dr. Sanjeev Khosla, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, India, Director (V)

10h30 PANEL 2
How can measures to achieve One Health be inclusive?


Moderator
Dr Magdalena Skipper

Panel
Dr Natasha Sunderji, Accenture
Dr Sharif Muhammad, ICESCO (V)
Dr Salome Charalambous, Implementation Research, The Aurum Institute Johannesburg, South Africa, Group Chief Science Officer – Director of the network TB Sequel
Dr Brian Wong I-DAIR

11h20 Break

11h30 Keynote 4
Dr Mosoka Fallah, Africa Center for Disease Control (V)

11h45 PANEL 3
Recommendations for the Summit of the Future


Moderator
Mrs Rita Lawlor, ARC-Net, University of Verona

Panel
Dr Moses Aloba, Science for Africa
Dr Michael Makanga, EDCTP
Dr Marcel Tanner, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and EDCTP, President (V)
Dr Litha Magingxa, President and CEO, Agricultural research technologies for climate resilience (V)

12h30 Keynote 5: Reflections
Dr Irene Norstedt, Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

12h40 Concluding Remarks:
Dr Anna Stewart Ibarra

Speakers
avatar for Magdalena Skipper

Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief, Nature, Springer/Nature
Dr Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for the Nature portfolio.A geneticist by training, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having worked as Chief Editor of Nature... Read More →
avatar for Ghada Trotabas

Ghada Trotabas

Managing Director of Great Britain and Ireland, Siemens Healthineers
Ghada Trotabas Managing Director of Great Britain and IrelandSiemens Healthineers Ghada Trotabas, has devoted her professional life to healthcare, working to make care more precise, more local, more digital, and more compassionate.She currently serves as Managing Director of Great... Read More →
avatar for Natasha’s Sunderjee

Natasha’s Sunderjee

Global Health Lead, ADP, Accenture
Natasha Sunderji is the Global Health and Nutrition Lead for Accenture’s social impact practice – Accenture Development Partnerships. She also co-leads Accenture’s Health Equity Center of Excellence. By engaging Accenture’s global workforce of over 700,000 employees, she works... Read More →
avatar for Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the CEO of the National Research Foundation of South Africa.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with specialisation in Computational Intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts... Read More →
avatar for Prof Dr. Damalie Nakanjako

Prof Dr. Damalie Nakanjako

Principal of the College of Health Sciences – Director of the network ADAPT, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Damalie Nakanjako is a professor of medicine and the principal of the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University (Uganda), as well as the previous dean of the School of Medicine. She has over 22 years’ experience in HIV/AIDS care on different platforms. These include community... Read More →
avatar for Prof. Dr. Salome Charalambous

Prof. Dr. Salome Charalambous

Group Chief Science Officer – Director of the network TB Sequel, Implementation Research, The Aurum Institute Johannesburg, South Africa
Salome Charalambous is the group chief scientific officer at the Aurum Institute in South Africa. She is a medical doctor with an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). She has been involved in TB and HIV programme implementation... Read More →
avatar for Irene Norstedt

Irene Norstedt

Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Irene Norstedt works at the European Commission, where she is the Director responsible for the People Directorate within the DG for Research and Innovation.The People Directorate works towards developing a healthy, safe, more equal, free, open and fair society where the voice of the... Read More →
avatar for Prof Dr. Uwe Truyen

Prof Dr. Uwe Truyen

Director of the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health – Co-Director of the network ADAPT, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
After studying veterinary medicine in Germany (1981–1986), Uwe Truyen did his post-doctoral studies in Hanover and Munich and studied as a post-doctoral fellow in Colin Parrish’s lab at the Baker Institute of Cornell University (USA). He is currently a professor of animal hygiene... Read More →
avatar for Mosoka Fallah

Mosoka Fallah

Africa Center for Disease Control
Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah, most recent position before joining SLL Project of Africa CDC was a short-term Health Security Technical consultant for the World Bank, where he worked on Pandemic diagnostics for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the Context of COVID-19. He also served as a... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Sanjeev Khosla

Dr. Sanjeev Khosla

Director, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, India
Dr. Sanjeev Khosla received his Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. For his postdoctoral studies, he worked in the Babraham Institute and the Gurdon Institute (formerly Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research-UK Institute, Cambridge, UK. His laboratory’s research... Read More →
avatar for Kurt Zatloukal

Kurt Zatloukal

Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Director of BBMRI.at, Medical University of Graz
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D. is a professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and is head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine. His research focuses on the molecular pathology of diseases as well as biobanking and related technologies. He coordinated... Read More →
avatar for Marleen Temmerman

Marleen Temmerman

Professor, The Aga Khan University, Kenya
Prof dr Marleen Temmerman, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCOG, FAAS, MBS, AAS, AAAS, NAM, leads the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya. Prior she was the Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization... Read More →
avatar for Michael Makanga

Michael Makanga

Executive Director, European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnerships - Association
Dr Michael Makanga, MD PhD FRCP: EDCTP Executive Director.Dr Makanga is a clinician-scientist with 28 years of professional experience of working on health and poverty-related infectious diseases in Africa. This includes 24 years of work experience on medical product development and... Read More →
avatar for Marcel Tanner

Marcel Tanner

President and High Representative EDCTP, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and EDCTP
Professor Marcel Tanner was Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute from 1997 to 2015 and is now President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in medical biology from the University of Basel and an MPH from the University of London. Lived and worked... Read More →
avatar for Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Chair, ECHAlliance
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Brian developed his career as a consultant, manager and investor. He has worked in the UK, the US and Hong Kong and has significant experience as a company director in various industries.He has acted as a Corporate Recovery Advisor to companies with... Read More →
avatar for Litha Magingxa

Litha Magingxa

President and CEO, Agricultural research technologies for climate resilience
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 →
avatar for Carlos Américo Pacheco

Carlos Américo Pacheco

CEO, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Electronic Engineering (ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 1979), Master (1988) and PhD (1996) in Economics (UNICAMP) and Pos-doc in Economics (Columbia University, 2005).Carlos Pacheco is professor of economics at the UNICAMP.Carlos Pacheco was Deputy Minister of Science... Read More →
avatar for Mark Jackson

Mark Jackson

Senior Quantum Evangelist, Quantinuum
Dr. Mark Jackson is the Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. He received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Duke University and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University. He then spent 10 years researching superstring theory and cosmology, co-authoring almost... Read More →
avatar for Seema Kumar

Seema Kumar

CEO, The Cure
Seema Kumar joined Cure Experience in 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer.Prior to Cure, Ms. Kumar spent nearly 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in senior leadership roles, including most recently as the Global Head, Office of Innovation, Global Health and Scientific Engagement, and served on J&J’s Innovation Strategy... Read More →
avatar for Petra Jantzer

Petra Jantzer

Global Life Sciences Lead & Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Petra Jantzer is Senior Managing Director at Accenture and CEO of European Pharmaceuticals and Med Tech Business. In her role, she supports large Life Science companies in bringing innovative medicines to patients and achieving better health outcomes.Petra has more than 20 years of... Read More →

Convenors
avatar for declan kirrane

declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →


Wednesday September 13, 2023 8:45am - 1:00pm EDT
ONLINE
 
Thursday, September 14
 

8:25am EDT

[IN-PERSON] Pandemic Preparedness: defining the UN-level strategy for the Summit of the Future 2024 with the National Research Foundation, South Africa (140905)
Limited Capacity seats available

VENUE LOCATION
CURE, 345 Park Ave South, New York.
Pay attention to the S-O-U-T-H part, otherwise you will be very lost.

Pandemic Preparedness: Defining the UN-level strategy for the Summit of the Future 2024 with the National Research Foundation, South Africa

Agenda (at 04h28EDT, Thursday 14 September 2023)

08h25 Welcome
Declan Kirrane, Chairman, Science Summit at UNGA78
Seema Kumar, CEO, CURE


08h30 PANEL 1 -- Scene Setting
Petra Jantzer, Life Sciences Global Lead, Accenture (Mod)
Marc Carrel-Billiard, Technology Innovation Global Lead, Accenture
Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, CEO, National Research Foundation, South Africa (V)
Johan Aubert, Chief Digital Officer, Research and Innovation L'Oreal
Hillel Lehmann, Vice President, Head of Transformation & Long-term Strategy, Nestlé Health Sciences
Rob Goodwin, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development and Operations, Pfizer


10h00 PANEL 2 Global Challenges Response
Kurt Zatloukal, Medical University Graz, Austria (Mod)
Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, UK
Seema Kumar, CURE by Deerfield, USA
Osamu Kunii, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, Japan (V)
Vinay K. Nandicoori Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

11h00 Keynote: Aunkh Chabalala, National Director of the Indigenous Knowledge-Based Technology Innovation Unit Dept of Science and Innovation, South Africa

11h15 Break

11h30 PANEL 3 100 Days Mission Panel: The Science of Access to Medical Countermeasures for Pandemic Preparedness

Moderator: Lidia Borrell-Damian, Secretary-General, ScienceEurope

As shown during the response to COVID-19, the faster we can develop safe, effective and affordable diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines (DTVs) for an escalating infectious disease, the more lives we can save.
The goal of the 100 Days Mission is to prepare as much as possible so that within the first 100 days that a pandemic threat is identified, the following interventions can be made available, safe, effective, and affordable:

Accurate and approved rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests
An initial regimen of therapeutics
Vaccines ready to be produced at scale for global deployment

In 2021, G7 and G20 Leaders welcomed the 100 Days Mission, building on the collaborative scientific efforts which led to the development of DTVs for COVID-19. The 1st 100 Days Mission report was authored by scientific, governmental and industry experts drawn from within and beyond the G7. It proposed 25 recommendations to harness scientific innovation and strengthen public and private collaboration that will reduce the time from discovery to deployment of DTVs within 100 days of the next pandemic threat.

Panel Concept: This session will discuss the following:
Background to the 100 Days Mission, its connection to the wider SDG agenda, and its value proposition for a safer world through scientific innovation to condense timelines and equitable access to countermeasures.
The learnings from COVID-19 and the policy solutions that underpin the 100 Days Mission
How upcoming political processes, including UNHLM on PPR and INB/IHR processes, will support this work, and how other opportunities, including a new MCM network and G7 and G20 presidencies, can make the 100 Days Mission a reality

11h30 - 11h35 Welcome: Dr Victor Dzau (President of the National Academy of Medicine and STEG co-chair) and Dr Rick A Bright (Former Director of BARDA, FIND board member)

11h35 - 11h45 Opening Remarks: Introduction to the 100 Days Mission and Science and Technology Expert Group (STEG) by Dr Victor Dzau (President of the National Academy of Medicine and STEG co-chair)


11h45 - 12h10 Panellist Remarks: 5-minute interventions from
Dr Nicole Lurie (US Director, CEPI), Shingai Machingaidze (Ag. Chief Science Officer, Africa CDC),
Dr Rick A Bright (Former Director of BARDA, FIND Board Member)
and
Dr Ruxandra Draghia-Akli (V) (Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D), on the global lessons captured from COVID-19 for pandemic preparedness R&D and the recommendations for ensuring countermeasures can deliver equity and innovation, with sustainable financial and political will.

12h10-12h45 Moderated Q&A between attendees and panellists

12h45-12h55 Closing Remarks: Global political opportunities for implementing the recommendations by Dr Mariângela Simão (Former WHO Assistant Director-General for Drug Access Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals)

12h55-13h00 Goodbyes: Dr Victor Dzau (President of the National Academy of Medicine and STEG co-chair) and Dr Rick A Bright (Former Director of BARDA, FIND Board Member)

13h00 Lunch (by Invitation)

14h00 Keynote: Policy Responses
Irene Norstedt, European Commission, Belgium:
Petra Jantzer Global Life Sciences Lead & Senior Managing Director, Accenture


14h45 PANEL 4 -- Harnessing Indigenous knowledge systems to combat diseases of poverty
Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, UK Moderator
Mosoka Fallah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Refuge Place International
Thomas John, Chief Strategy Officer, Landcent
Michael Makanga, European Developing Countries Clinical Trails Programme
Aunkh Chabalala, National Director of the Indigenous Knowledge-Based Technology Innovation Unit, Dept of Science and Innovation. South Africa
Peter Atadja, Chief Scientific Advisor, Landcent

15h45 PANEL 5 -- Building Communities of Practice for Interpandemic Sciences in Africa – Science for Africa Foundation
Moses Alobo, Science for Africa Foundation
Thomas Kariuki, CEO, Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya
Jinal Bhiman Global Immunology and Immune Sequencing for Epidemic Response South Africa (GIISER-SA), NICD
Christian Happi, Redeemers University, Nigeria

16h30 Recommendation for the Summit of the Future and Concluding Panel
Triona McCormack, UCD, Ireland - Moderator:
Alison Derbenwick Miller, Oracle
Brian O'Connor, Chairman, ECHAlliance
Carlos Americo Pacheco, FAPESP
Josef Glößl, BOKU, Austria


Speakers
avatar for Vinay K. Nandicoori

Vinay K. Nandicoori

Director, CSIR-CCMB
Dr Vinay Nandicoori is well known Molecular Biologist who has contributed immensely to delineating the signalling networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB. He did his M.Sc in Biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Ph.D in Molecular and... Read More →
avatar for Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Chair, ECHAlliance
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Brian developed his career as a consultant, manager and investor. He has worked in the UK, the US and Hong Kong and has significant experience as a company director in various industries.He has acted as a Corporate Recovery Advisor to companies with... Read More →
avatar for Marc Carrel-Billiard

Marc Carrel-Billiard

Global Lead of Accenture Technology Innovation, Accenture
Marc Carrel-Billiard is a Senior Managing Director at Accenture. He is the Global Lead of Accenture Technology Innovation. In his role Marc leads:Accenture Labs, the dedicated R&D organization of AccentureAccenture Ventures, which bridges clients with eco-system partners including... Read More →
avatar for Petra Jantzer

Petra Jantzer

Global Life Sciences Lead & Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Petra Jantzer is Senior Managing Director at Accenture and CEO of European Pharmaceuticals and Med Tech Business. In her role, she supports large Life Science companies in bringing innovative medicines to patients and achieving better health outcomes.Petra has more than 20 years of... Read More →
avatar for Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the CEO of the National Research Foundation of South Africa.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with specialisation in Computational Intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts... Read More →
RR

Robert R Goodwin

Rob Goodwin, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development and Operations Pfizer Research and Development (PRD), Pfizer
avatar for declan kirrane

declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →
avatar for Magdalena Skipper

Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief, Nature, Springer/Nature
Dr Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for the Nature portfolio.A geneticist by training, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having worked as Chief Editor of Nature... Read More →
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Seema Kumar

CEO, The Cure
Seema Kumar joined Cure Experience in 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer.Prior to Cure, Ms. Kumar spent nearly 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in senior leadership roles, including most recently as the Global Head, Office of Innovation, Global Health and Scientific Engagement, and served on J&J’s Innovation Strategy... Read More →
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Victor Dzau

President, United States National Academy of Medicine
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Triona McCormack

Director of Research, Director of Research at University College Dublin, Ireland and Member of the Taskforce on Rural Africa and the oversight
Triona is a co-Chair of the Science Summit and leads the team at University College Dublin (UCD) responsible for research strategy, management and operations. She also currently co-chairs the UCD strategic theme on Creating a Sustainable Global Society.Prior to joining UCD, Triona... Read More →
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Mosoka Fallah

Africa Center for Disease Control
Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah, most recent position before joining SLL Project of Africa CDC was a short-term Health Security Technical consultant for the World Bank, where he worked on Pandemic diagnostics for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the Context of COVID-19. He also served as a... Read More →
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Alison Derbenwick Miller

Vice President, Oracle for Research
Alison Derbenwick Miller is the Vice President of Oracle for Research, leading Oracle’s global strategy and development for the research industry.  Alison was recognized in Business Insider’s Cloudverse 100 list in 2022 and was named as the 2022 STEM Award Winner by Women Worth... Read More →
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Ruxandra Draghia-Akli

Global Head, J&J Global Public Health R&D
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, Ph.D., leads Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D, advancing discovery, development, and technology capabilities in collaboration with internal and external partners. Ruxandra’s deep knowledge of R&D is matched by an equally deep commitment to improving... Read More →
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Vinay K. Nandicoori

Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Vinay K. Nandicoori Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Kurt Zatloukal

Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Director of BBMRI.at, Medical University of Graz
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D. is a professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and is head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine. His research focuses on the molecular pathology of diseases as well as biobanking and related technologies. He coordinated... Read More →
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Michael Makanga

Executive Director, European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnerships - Association
Dr Michael Makanga, MD PhD FRCP: EDCTP Executive Director.Dr Makanga is a clinician-scientist with 28 years of professional experience of working on health and poverty-related infectious diseases in Africa. This includes 24 years of work experience on medical product development and... Read More →
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Josef Glössl

University Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
Josef Glössl is Professor emeritus of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria, where he initiated research on Plant Molecular Pharming (PMP), including glyco-engineering of plants, aiming at optimizing plant... Read More →
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Thomas John

Chief Strategy Officer, Landcent Europe B.V.
After working for several years an information architect and product manager, TJ co-founded Seventh, a go-to-market consultancy to help a burgeoning breed of social entrepreneurs scale at speed, through enabling access to funding and markets. The firm was listed as one of the top... Read More →
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Carlos Américo Pacheco

CEO, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Electronic Engineering (ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 1979), Master (1988) and PhD (1996) in Economics (UNICAMP) and Pos-doc in Economics (Columbia University, 2005).Carlos Pacheco is professor of economics at the UNICAMP.Carlos Pacheco was Deputy Minister of Science... Read More →
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Dr. Shevin Jacob

Chief Scientific Officer, STAIRS; Reader, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Director/co-Founder, Walimu, Walimu
Dr. Shevin Jacob is the chief scientific officer for the sub-Saharan Africa ConsorTium for the Advancement of Innovative Research and Care in Sepsis (STAIRS). He is an infectious disease physician and Reader in Sepsis Research within the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Liverpool... Read More →
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Irene Norstedt

Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Irene Norstedt works at the European Commission, where she is the Director responsible for the People Directorate within the DG for Research and Innovation.The People Directorate works towards developing a healthy, safe, more equal, free, open and fair society where the voice of the... Read More →
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Osamu Kunii

CEO, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund(GHIT Fund)
Dr. Osamu Kunii is CEO and Executive Director at the GHIT Fund. He served as a Management Executive Committee member of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), as Head of the Strategy, Investment and Impact Division. He led one of the largest divisions... Read More →
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Hillel Lehmann

Vice President, Head of Transformation & Long-Term Strategy at Nestlé Health Science U.S, Nestlé
Hillel Lehmann serves as Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy and Transformation at Nestlé Health Science. In his current role he is responsible for defining and executing transformation initiatives across the business, with the objective of accelerating growth and maximizing... Read More →
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Johan Aubert

Chief Digital Officer, Research & Innovation,, L'Oréal
I am a scientist passionated by artificial intelligence and computer vision and I daily contribute to put digital at the service of humans and sciences. As the CDO of L’Oréal Research & Innovation, my role is to lead our teams of Data Scientists, Scientific Computing, Lab Automation... Read More →

Convenors
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declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →


Thursday September 14, 2023 8:25am - 5:00pm EDT
Cure by Deerfield
  Health, One Health

8:25am EDT

[VIRTUAL] Pandemic Preparedness: defining the UN-level strategy for the Summit of the Future 2024 - with the National Research Foundation, South Africa (140905)

VENUE LOCATION
CURE, 345 Park Ave South, New York.
Pay attention to the S-O-U-T-H part, otherwise you will be very lost.

Pandemic Preparedness: Defining the UN-level strategy for the Summit of the Future 2024 with the National Research Foundation, South Africa

Agenda (at 04h28EDT, Thursday 14 September 2023)

08h25 Welcome
Declan Kirrane, Chairman, Science Summit at UNGA78
Seema Kumar, CEO, CURE


08h30 PANEL 1 -- Scene Setting
Petra Jantzer, Life Sciences Global Lead, Accenture (Mod)
Marc Carrel-Billiard, Technology Innovation Global Lead, Accenture
Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, CEO, National Research Foundation, South Africa (V)
Johan Aubert, Chief Digital Officer, Research and Innovation L'Oreal
Hillel Lehmann, Vice President, Head of Transformation & Long-term Strategy, Nestlé Health Sciences
Rob Goodwin, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer


10h00 PANEL 2 Global Challenges Response
Kurt Zatloukal, Medical University Graz, Austria (Mod)
Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, UK
Seema Kumar, CURE by Deerfield, USA
Osamu Kunii, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, Japan (V)

11h00 Keynote: Aunkh Chabalala, National Director of the Indigenous Knowledge-Based Technology Innovation Unit Dept of Science and Innovation, South Africa

11h15 Break

11h30 PANEL 3 100 Days Mission Panel: The Science of Access to Medical Countermeasures for Pandemic Preparedness

Moderator: Lidia Borrell-Damian, Secretary-General, ScienceEurope

As shown during the response to COVID-19, the faster we can develop safe, effective and affordable diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines (DTVs) for an escalating infectious disease, the more lives we can save.
The goal of the 100 Days Mission is to prepare as much as possible so that within the first 100 days that a pandemic threat is identified, the following interventions can be made available, safe, effective, and affordable:

Accurate and approved rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests
An initial regimen of therapeutics
Vaccines ready to be produced at scale for global deployment

In 2021, G7 and G20 Leaders welcomed the 100 Days Mission, building on the collaborative scientific efforts which led to the development of DTVs for COVID-19. The 1st 100 Days Mission report was authored by scientific, governmental and industry experts drawn from within and beyond the G7. It proposed 25 recommendations to harness scientific innovation and strengthen public and private collaboration that will reduce the time from discovery to deployment of DTVs within 100 days of the next pandemic threat.

Panel Concept: This session will discuss the following:
Background to the 100 Days Mission, its connection to the wider SDG agenda, and its value proposition for a safer world through scientific innovation to condense timelines and equitable access to countermeasures.
The learnings from COVID-19 and the policy solutions that underpin the 100 Days Mission
How upcoming political processes, including UNHLM on PPR and INB/IHR processes, will support this work, and how other opportunities, including a new MCM network and G7 and G20 presidencies, can make the 100 Days Mission a reality

11h30 - 11h35 Welcome: Dr Victor Dzau (President of the National Academy of Medicine and STEG co-chair) and Dr Rick A Bright (Former Director of BARDA, FIND board member)

11h35 - 11h45 Opening Remarks: Introduction to the 100 Days Mission and Science and Technology Expert Group (STEG) by Dr Victor Dzau (President of the National Academy of Medicine and STEG co-chair)


11h45 - 12h10 Panellist Remarks: 5-minute interventions from
Dr Nicole Lurie (US Director, CEPI), Shingai Machingaidze (Ag. Chief Science Officer, Africa CDC),
Dr Rick A Bright (Former Director of BARDA, FIND Board Member)
and
Dr Ruxandra Draghia-Akli (V) (Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D), on the global lessons captured from COVID-19 for pandemic preparedness R&D and the recommendations for ensuring countermeasures can deliver equity and innovation, with sustainable financial and political will.

12h10-12h45 Moderated Q&A between attendees and panellists

12h45-12h55 Closing Remarks: Global political opportunities for implementing the recommendations by Dr Mariângela Simão (Former WHO Assistant Director-General for Drug Access Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals)

12h55-13h00 Goodbyes: Dr Victor Dzau (President of the National Academy of Medicine and STEG co-chair) and Dr Rick A Bright (Former Director of BARDA, FIND Board Member)

13h00 Lunch (by Invitation)

14h00 Keynote: Policy Responses
Irene Norstedt, European Commission, Belgium:


14h45 PANEL 4 -- Harnessing Indigenous knowledge systems to combat diseases of poverty
Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, UK Moderator
Mosoka Fallah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Refuge Place International
Thomas John, Landcent
Michael Makanga, European Developing Countries Clinical Trails Programme
Aunkh Chabalala, National Director of the Indigenous Knowledge-Based Technology Innovation Unit, Dept of Science and Innovation. South Africa
Peter Atadja, Chief Scientific Advisor, Landcent

15h45 PANEL 5 -- Building Communities of Practice for Interpandemic Sciences in Africa – Science for Africa Foundation
Thomas Kariuki, CEO, Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya
Jinal Bhiman Global Immunology and Immune Sequencing for Epidemic Response South Africa (GIISER-SA), NICD
Christian Happi, Redeemers University, Nigeria

16h30 Recommendation for the Summit of the Future and Concluding Panel
Triona McCormack, UCD, Ireland - Moderator:
Alison Derbenwick Miller, Oracle, USA
Carlos Americo Pacheco, FAPESP
Josef Glößl, BOKU, Austria

Pandemic preparedness is vital for protecting public health, maintaining economic stability, ensuring global health security, strengthening healthcare systems, fostering scientific advancements, reducing risks, and engaging communities. By investing in preparedness, we can minimise the impact of pandemics and build a more resilient world as a key pillar of SDG 3.

The world's response to the COVID-19 pandemic revealed significant shortcomings in global public health emergency preparedness. Particularly in Africa, access to vaccines was unavailable, highlighting the need for better pandemic prediction and prevention. Vaccine hesitancy underscored the importance of engaging all sectors of society. Africa's experience with HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics provided valuable expertise and infrastructure for the COVID-19 response. However, funding shortages and the far-reaching impact of COVID-19 necessitate the establishment of a multi-sectoral entity to strengthen disease control stra

Speakers
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Vinay K. Nandicoori

Director, CSIR-CCMB
Dr Vinay Nandicoori is well known Molecular Biologist who has contributed immensely to delineating the signalling networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB. He did his M.Sc in Biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Ph.D in Molecular and... Read More →
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Triona McCormack

Director of Research, Director of Research at University College Dublin, Ireland and Member of the Taskforce on Rural Africa and the oversight
Triona is a co-Chair of the Science Summit and leads the team at University College Dublin (UCD) responsible for research strategy, management and operations. She also currently co-chairs the UCD strategic theme on Creating a Sustainable Global Society.Prior to joining UCD, Triona... Read More →
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Kurt Zatloukal

Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Director of BBMRI.at, Medical University of Graz
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D. is a professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and is head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine. His research focuses on the molecular pathology of diseases as well as biobanking and related technologies. He coordinated... Read More →
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declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →
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Michael Makanga

Executive Director, European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnerships - Association
Dr Michael Makanga, MD PhD FRCP: EDCTP Executive Director.Dr Makanga is a clinician-scientist with 28 years of professional experience of working on health and poverty-related infectious diseases in Africa. This includes 24 years of work experience on medical product development and... Read More →
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Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief, Nature, Springer/Nature
Dr Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for the Nature portfolio.A geneticist by training, she holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having worked as Chief Editor of Nature... Read More →
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Josef Glössl

University Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
Josef Glössl is Professor emeritus of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria, where he initiated research on Plant Molecular Pharming (PMP), including glyco-engineering of plants, aiming at optimizing plant... Read More →
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Thomas John

Chief Strategy Officer, Landcent Europe B.V.
After working for several years an information architect and product manager, TJ co-founded Seventh, a go-to-market consultancy to help a burgeoning breed of social entrepreneurs scale at speed, through enabling access to funding and markets. The firm was listed as one of the top... Read More →
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Hervé RAOUL

Assistant Director of ANRS MIE (French National Agency for Research on AIDS - Emerging Infectious Diseases), French National Agency for Research on AIDS - Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS MIE)
PhD in biology of blood cells from Paris VII University obtained in 1995 and accreditation to supervise research at the Paris XI University in 2000.From 1989 to 1997, laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neurovirology at CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) working on the consequences... Read More →
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Mónica Martín-Lanuza Olmeda

Coordinator for International Cooperation and Partnerships, CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS
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Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the CEO of the National Research Foundation of South Africa.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with specialisation in Computational Intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts... Read More →
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Dr Eugene A. Lottering

National Research Foundation, South Africa
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Stefano Bertuzzi

CEO, American Society of Micrombiology
Dr. Stefano Bertuzzi is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). ASM is one of the largest life sciences professional societies in the world, with more than 30,000 members and activities in 122 countries. Its mission is to promote and advance microbial... Read More →
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Carlos Américo Pacheco

CEO, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Electronic Engineering (ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 1979), Master (1988) and PhD (1996) in Economics (UNICAMP) and Pos-doc in Economics (Columbia University, 2005).Carlos Pacheco is professor of economics at the UNICAMP.Carlos Pacheco was Deputy Minister of Science... Read More →
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Nicola Mulder

Professor, Head of Computational Biology, University of Cape Town, H3ABioNet
I head the Computational Biology Division at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and am a full member of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine.I lead H3ABioNet, a Pan African Bioinformatics Network of 28 institutions in 17 countries, which is developing bioinformatics... Read More →
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Zisis Kozlakidis

Head of Laboratories Services and Biobanking, IARC/WHO
Dr Zisis Kozlakidis is the Head of Laboratory Services and Biobanking at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization (IARC/WHO). He is responsible for one of the largest and most varied international collections of clinical samples in the world, focusing... Read More →
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Dr. Shevin Jacob

Chief Scientific Officer, STAIRS; Reader, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Director/co-Founder, Walimu, Walimu
Dr. Shevin Jacob is the chief scientific officer for the sub-Saharan Africa ConsorTium for the Advancement of Innovative Research and Care in Sepsis (STAIRS). He is an infectious disease physician and Reader in Sepsis Research within the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Liverpool... Read More →
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Irene Norstedt

Director, People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Irene Norstedt works at the European Commission, where she is the Director responsible for the People Directorate within the DG for Research and Innovation.The People Directorate works towards developing a healthy, safe, more equal, free, open and fair society where the voice of the... Read More →
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Seema Kumar

CEO, The Cure
Seema Kumar joined Cure Experience in 2022 as the Chief Executive Officer.Prior to Cure, Ms. Kumar spent nearly 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in senior leadership roles, including most recently as the Global Head, Office of Innovation, Global Health and Scientific Engagement, and served on J&J’s Innovation Strategy... Read More →
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Osamu Kunii

CEO, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund(GHIT Fund)
Dr. Osamu Kunii is CEO and Executive Director at the GHIT Fund. He served as a Management Executive Committee member of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), as Head of the Strategy, Investment and Impact Division. He led one of the largest divisions... Read More →
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Petra Jantzer

Global Life Sciences Lead & Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Petra Jantzer is Senior Managing Director at Accenture and CEO of European Pharmaceuticals and Med Tech Business. In her role, she supports large Life Science companies in bringing innovative medicines to patients and achieving better health outcomes.Petra has more than 20 years of... Read More →
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Vinay K. Nandicoori

Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Vinay K. Nandicoori Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Mosoka Fallah

Africa Center for Disease Control
Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah, most recent position before joining SLL Project of Africa CDC was a short-term Health Security Technical consultant for the World Bank, where he worked on Pandemic diagnostics for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the Context of COVID-19. He also served as a... Read More →
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Alison Derbenwick Miller

Vice President, Oracle for Research
Alison Derbenwick Miller is the Vice President of Oracle for Research, leading Oracle’s global strategy and development for the research industry.  Alison was recognized in Business Insider’s Cloudverse 100 list in 2022 and was named as the 2022 STEM Award Winner by Women Worth... Read More →
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Hillel Lehmann

Vice President, Head of Transformation & Long-Term Strategy at Nestlé Health Science U.S, Nestlé
Hillel Lehmann serves as Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy and Transformation at Nestlé Health Science. In his current role he is responsible for defining and executing transformation initiatives across the business, with the objective of accelerating growth and maximizing... Read More →
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Ruxandra Draghia-Akli

Global Head, J&J Global Public Health R&D
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, Ph.D., leads Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D, advancing discovery, development, and technology capabilities in collaboration with internal and external partners. Ruxandra’s deep knowledge of R&D is matched by an equally deep commitment to improving... Read More →
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Victor Dzau

President, United States National Academy of Medicine
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Johan Aubert

Chief Digital Officer, Research & Innovation,, L'Oréal
I am a scientist passionated by artificial intelligence and computer vision and I daily contribute to put digital at the service of humans and sciences. As the CDO of L’Oréal Research & Innovation, my role is to lead our teams of Data Scientists, Scientific Computing, Lab Automation... Read More →
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Robert R Goodwin

Rob Goodwin, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development and Operations Pfizer Research and Development (PRD), Pfizer

Convenors
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declan kirrane

Chairman, Science Summit UNGA78
Declan Kirrane is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, the chairman and managing director of the science Summit at the United Nations General assembly, and co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF). He has over 25 years of experience as a global senior... Read More →


Thursday September 14, 2023 8:25am - 5:00pm EDT
ONLINE
  Health, One Health
 
Tuesday, September 19
 

8:00am EDT

[VIRTUAL] Collaborative Research in East Africa: Community and University Partnerships with The University of Scranton/Harvard Medical School (190801)
Introduction and aims

We represent a group of researchers and clinical practitioners working with Universities and Foundations in the United States to partner on health and education research in local communities in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda). Our work spans rural and urban settings for understanding the contributions local communities and indigenous wisdom can offer to the science of health-seeking behavior and human flourishing, including the context of education. We shall share the challenges we face in collaborating remotely and in-person on complex problems related to neurology, public health, and infectious disease. Those challenges include IRB approval policies across countries and the need to attend to repeatable scientific data and evidence provided in open-source venues, per requirements issued by research funding bodies. Who owns the data and how the data can be equitably sourced, accessed, and distributed, remains a crucial problem of our work. Our hypothesis is that by sharing our own challenges in navigating international science policy frameworks, we may work with other delegates to ensure more significant equity and inclusion for marginalized voices in East Africa, including the Batwa, an historically marginalized set of communities' long-denied human rights.

Abstract

We use mixed methods for our human subject research in neurology, infectious disease, and education practices. In one study represented here, the researchers hypothesize that kinship relations, including ancestral and spiritual actors, strongly influence health-seeking behavior and thus must be studied qualitatively and quantitatively to ensure sound principles guide future health interventions. The proposed study has two complementary aims.

The first is empirical:
(1) To determine how social networks impact treatment-seeking for a group of 50 participants in Uganda. To do this, they will collect data on patient behavior and social connections using a network mapping and survey tool called PERSNET. The second aim is theoretical,
(2) To develop from the data a theory of the benefits and dangers of viewing humans as “porous” or readily influenced by outside forces and actors in the context of healthcare.

The applied potential of this theory is to support the design of culturally and contextually appropriate brain health interventions. This study is motivated by recognising the shortcomings of the disease-centric model of medicine, which prioritizes technological and biomedical solutions to physical health while failing to recognize the influence of the social or cultural environment on well-being. Referencing Charles Taylor’s conceptualization of the “buffered” and “porous” models of personhood, the researchers propose that the current disease model of health care must evolve in a way that recognizes the porosity of human beings and the interconnectedness of individuals to their broader social context. This project seeks to contribute to this aim.

An interdisciplinary team leads the project from the Human Network Initiative, which includes a philosopher, neuroscientist and theologian, building on existing research partnerships in Uganda. The Human Network Initiative is located in the Neurology Department of Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It seeks to explore the manifold and massive ways that interpersonal community, or its lack of presence, affect brain health and general flourishing.

Other represented researchers and clinical practitioners include those specializing in randomized control trials in Kenya and Uganda, as well as infectious disease and women's health in the rural rainforest region of southwestern Uganda.

Expected outcomes

The outcomes of the research are many:
(1) open source publications;
(2) international conferences;
(3) short documentary films;
(4) up-skilling of local community-based research partners.

Overall, our work will shape international science policy by including neglected communities and side-lined traditions of wisdom that inform the daily lives of millions of people in East Africa and the United States. Our international partnerships can ensure that more voices can shape science policy, especially in matters of data governance and ownership with respect to public health.

Speakers
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Ian Marcus Corbin

Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher on the Neurology faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative, and is a Faculty Member at the HMS Center for Bioethics. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Cap... Read More →
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Cyrus Olsen

Associate Professor, The University of Scranton
International science collaborator, especially mixed-methods medical anthropology in East Africa.  I am here working alongside colleagues in East Africa at the intersection of health and human behaviour.  In particular, I bring my academic expertise in the humanities (philosophy... Read More →
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Maurice Sikenyi, Ph.D.

Assistant Director, Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity, University of Notre Dame
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Scott Kellermann MD MPH&TM

Founder, Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda
Faculty: Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical MedicineFaculty: California Northstate College of MedicineFaculty: University of San FranciscoI have worked for 2+ decades with the Batwa pygmies of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. In the process we have constructed a155 bed hospital... Read More →
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Nina Berman

Professor of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
I am a professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, with previous appointments at the University of Texas at Austin and The Ohio State University. My research and teaching focus centrally on questions of exclusion and inclusion across... Read More →

Convenors
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Cyrus Olsen

Associate Professor, The University of Scranton
International science collaborator, especially mixed-methods medical anthropology in East Africa.  I am here working alongside colleagues in East Africa at the intersection of health and human behaviour.  In particular, I bring my academic expertise in the humanities (philosophy... Read More →


Tuesday September 19, 2023 8:00am - 10:00am EDT
ONLINE
  Health, One Health
 
Wednesday, September 27
 

9:30am EDT

[VIRTUAL] Pesticide residues in the ecosystem and humans across Europe: linking SPRINT field data to health risks (270907)
The SPRINT projects (sprint-h2020.eu) is related to the target of the European Farm to Fork Strategy: a 50% reduction in chemical pesticide use and risk by 50% by 2030. SPRINT addresses the urgent need to assess the actual presence of  pesticide residues in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, indoor dust and human matrices across Europe, covering the main cropping systems. Furthermore, we address the risk of pesticide mixtures for ecosystem and human health.
SPRINT is the first European wide effort to monitor real pesticide application patterns (Mark et al. 2023) and the resulting distribution of pesticide residues across all main European cropping systems. Therefore, we monitored during the growing season of 2021 in 10 European case study sites. We took about 600 samples across environmental matrices - soil, plant, surface water, sediment, air and indoor dust and blood, urine and feces samples from 670 persons.
We assess residue distribution connected to different farming systems (organic, integrated), taking the fact into consideration that synthetic pesticides are not applied in organic farming systems, but that they may be still present due to applications in the past or by deposition due to off-site transport.
SPRINT focuses on more than 200 active substances of synthetic pesticides and their metabolites from group 2 (approved), group 3 (candidates of substitution) and group 4 (banned at EU level) as categorized by the EC (2020).
We link the residue distribution in the different matrices to the hazardous properties of the residues (EFSA conclusions, PPDB database) for ecosystem and human health and introduce a Risk Indicator as a base for the 50% risk reduction target of the Farm to Fork strategy.
Based on field results we test the mixtures’ impact on the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem conducting innovative ecotoxicological tests with sensitive indicators. Furthermore, we assess human health effects conducting in vitro tests with colon ilium and long organoids.
The SPRINT session provides highly important knowledge needed to solve the urgent questions on how to reduce pesticide risk as a base for a transition to sustainable agriculture. We provide data and a new risk indicator that can be included in new regulations.


Session title: Pesticide residues in the ecosystem and humans across Europe and Argentina: linking SPRINT field data to health risks
Duration: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
  Introduction to the SPRINT project by Violette Geissen
 Time: 9:30 to 9:35
 1.   Title: Pesticide residues with hazard classifications omnipresent in the European environment and farmer residences
       Speaker: Violette Geissen, Wageningen University, NL
       Time: 9:35 to 9:50 am


 2. Title: How is exposure to pesticides affecting ecosystem, plant, animal and human health? An assessment based on SPRINT field campaign across Europe and Argentina
 Speaker: Abdallah Alaoui, University of Bern, CH
 Time: 9:50 to 10:05 am


 3. Title: Linking pesticide residues in indoor dust to human exposure of residents living close to conventional and organic farming.
 Speaker: Daniel M. Figueiredo, Utrecht University, NL
 Time: 10:05 to 10:20 am


 4. Title: Pesticides in human urine and feces: human biomonitoring to assess internal exposure to pesticides
 Speaker: Hans Mol, Wageningen Research, NL
 Time: 10:20 to 10:35 am


 5. Title: Pesticides and gut health – some pesticides influence gut microbiome composition and negatively impact cells lining the gut
 Speaker: Maaike Gerritse, Wageningen University, NL
 Time: 10:35 to 10:50 am


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6. Title: Pesticide Exposure by Air at two Agricultural Sites in Europe
 Speaker: Freya Debler, Helmholtz Zentrum Heroen, D
 Time: 11:00 to 11:15 am


 7. Title: Pesticide transport by wind in sediment originating from agricultural fields
 Speaker: Dirk Goossens, Wageningen University, NL and KU Leuven, BE
 Time: 11:15 to 11:30 am


 8. Title: Risks and costs related to pesticide applications on a global scale
 Speaker: Peter Fantke, Technical University of Denmark, DK
 Time: 11:30 to 11:45 am


 9. Title: Risk of pesticide mixtures on the terrestrial ecosystem –effects on earthworms, springtails, and bees
 Speaker: Kayode Jegede, Wageningen University, NL
 Time: 11:45 to 12:00 pm


 10. Title: Impacts of realistic pesticide mixtures on freshwater ecosystems
 Speaker: Nelson Abrantes, University of Aveiro, PT
 Time: 12:00 to 12:15 pm


 11.  Final discussion and recommendations for the future
 Speaker: Violette Geissen
 Time: 12:15 to 12:30 pm


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Speakers
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Peter Fantke

Professor, Head of section, Technical University of Denmark
Dr. Peter Fantke is professor and head of the Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at the Technical University of Denmark. He develops quantitative methods for evaluating exposure and toxicity impacts on humans and the environment related to harmful chemicals and air... Read More →
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Kayode Jegede

Research Scientist, Wageningen University and Research
Dr. Kayode Jegede is a research scientist at the Soil Physics and Land Management group, at Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands. He has expertise in soil ecology, ecotoxicology, and ecological risk assessment. He has worked significantly with different soil invertebrates... Read More →
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Violette Geissen

Professor, Wageningen University
I am a Professor for Soil Degradation and Land management, strongly interested in the implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy, specially related the reduction of pesticide risk and use.  I am interested in suitable measures to implement sustainable agriculture Europe wide. I... Read More →
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Abdallah Alaoui

I am a a Senior research scientist at the University of Bern, Switzerland. I have over 35 years of experience in soil sciences with a focus on modeling of flow and transport in the unsaturated zone; the importance of soils for agriculture, forestry, and ecosystem functions; modeling... Read More →
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Daniel Martins Figueiredo

Assistant Professor, IRAS, Utrecht University
Dr. Eng. Daniel Figueiredo is an assistant professor at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. He is trained in environmental sciences, epidemiology, toxicology and environmental health. He has been involved in different modelling efforts on several projects, involving both fate... Read More →
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Nelson Abrantes

Researcher, Universidade de Aveiro
Dr. Nelson Abrantes is a researcher at CESAM and Department of Biology - University of Aveiro, Portugal with expertise in aquatic ecotoxicology and ecological risk assessment. He has participated in several national and international projects (5 as Principal Investigator (PI); 2 as... Read More →
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Maaike Gerritse

PhD candidate, Wageningen University
Maaike Gerritse MSc. is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University, Netherlands. As a systems biologist, she is trained to analyse complex (omics) datasets and come to biologically meaningful interpretation of the results.Maaike is researching the effects of pesticides on human health... Read More →
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Dirk Goossens

researcher, Wageningen University and Research
Dirk Goossens is a researcher with the Soil Physics and Land Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands and the Geography and Tourism group, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is specialized in atmospheric dust dynamics and collected and analyzed pesticide-contaminated particles during... Read More →
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Celia Bento

Researcher/Scientific Project Manager, Wageningen University & Research
I have a PhD in Environmental Sciences, obtained at Wageningen University & Research, in The Netherlands.My experttise is soil and water pollution, more specifically occurrence of pesticides in soil and water, behaviour of pesticides in soil,pesticide transport risk assessment to... Read More →
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Freya Debler

PhD candidate, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
I am a PhD candidate at the group of Organic Environmental Chemistry at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany and involved in the EU project SPRINT. I am trained in environmental sciences and chemical analysis. My current focus is on the analysis and assessment of pesticides in the... Read More →
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Hans Mol

Senior Scientist, Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR)
Dr. Hans Mol is a Senior scientist at Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. He has 25 years of experience in pesticides residue analysis in food, human, and environmental matrices in the frame of MRL compliance testing... Read More →

Convenors
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Kayode Jegede

Research Scientist, Wageningen University and Research
Dr. Kayode Jegede is a research scientist at the Soil Physics and Land Management group, at Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands. He has expertise in soil ecology, ecotoxicology, and ecological risk assessment. He has worked significantly with different soil invertebrates... Read More →
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Violette Geissen

Professor, Wageningen University
I am a Professor for Soil Degradation and Land management, strongly interested in the implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy, specially related the reduction of pesticide risk and use.  I am interested in suitable measures to implement sustainable agriculture Europe wide. I... Read More →


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