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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our Partners
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Khahn Thuy Phan Programme Associate, Population Health Program
The Atlantic Philanthropies
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
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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
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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
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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