Speakers Presentations 2017
The following presentations from Uppsala Health Summit's plenary sessions are available for download. Please find Videos from all sessions here!
Presentations in Plenary
Plenary Session 1: Emerging Disease Threats, their Global Drivers, and One Health
- Dr. Björn Olsen, Professor, Dept. Of Medicine, Uppsala University
Pandemics- an inevitable consequense of humans predatory behaviour - Dr. Peter Daszak, President, EcoHealth Alliance
The beginning of the end of the pandemic era - Dr. Maria K. Lapinski, Professor, Department of Communication and Michigan AgBio Research, Michigan State University, Director, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Health, Environment, and Risk Communication Center (HERCC)
Connecting Social Science Research to One Health Challenges
Plenary Session 2: Zoonotic Disease Threats: Prevent, Detect, Respond
- Dr. Eric Fèvre, Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Global Health
Lessons from integrated One Health research in Kenya - Dr. Paul Richards, Emeritus Professor of Technology and Agrarian Development, University of Wageningen
Three lessons for One Health from the Upper West African Ebola epidemic - Frouke de Groot, Policy Officer Animal Health, Netherlands’ Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Dr. Beth Ann Griswold Coller, Molecular Biologist, Executive Director, Global Clinical Development, Merck and Co
The journey of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola Vaccine
Plenary Session 3: Making One Health Work
- Dr. Pierre Formenty, DVM, Team Lead Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers, Health Emergencies programme, WHO
Global outbreak response and R&D: a country based strategy and One Health framework - Dr. Timothy Bouley, Global Health and Environmental Specialist, World Bank
World Banking on One Health - Dr. Johanna Takkinen Head of Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC
Making One Health work – Experiences with food- and waterborne diseases in EU/EEA - Dr. Bassirou Bonfoh, Professor, Director, CSRS, ASPIRE-ONE Afrique Consortium
One Health Governance in West Africa
Plenary Session 4: Implementing Lessons Learned - Future priorities
- Dr. Hannah Akuffo, Senior Researcher Advisor and Programme Manager, Swedish International Development Agency, SIDA
- Dr. Charlie Weller, Head of Vaccine Programme, Wellcome Trust
A world better prepared to respond to emerging infectious disease outbreaks - Dr. Jim Gallarda, Senior Program Officer - Diagnostics, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Where do we go from here? Two futures…
Presentations in Workshops
Workshop A: Zoonotic diseases in livestock - mitigating risk behaviour
- Dr. Elisabeth Lindahl Rajala, SLU Global: Brucella in Tajikistan
- Dr. Barbara Wieland, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya - Experiences from rural settings, including gender dimensions
- Professor Eric Fevre, Institute of Infection and Global Health (IGH), University of Liverpool University of Glasgow, International Livestock Research Institute. Urban Perspectives on Zoonotic Diseases in Livestock
Workshop B: Empowered and resilient communities - a need for new perspectives
- Professor Paul Richards, University of Wageningen,Netherlands, Njala University, Sierra Leone, Ebola 2014- Problems of community engagement
- Dr. Anders Nordström, Ambassador of Global Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, The building blocks of the Ebola response
- Dr. Samson Haumba, UCR University Research, LLC Swaziland: Empowered and Resilient Communities - a need for new perspectives
Workshop C: A roadmap for effective diagnostics to combat global infectious disease
- Dr. Sabine Dittrich, Head of Fever, FIND Diagnostics: Diagnostic needs to address emerging health threats like AMR
- Dr. Stephan Jäger, PHC Partnering Director, Roche Diagnostics GmbH: Infectious disease diagnostics
- Jim Gallarda, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: (Presentation currently unavailable)
Workshop D: New medicines and vaccines - what do we need to monitor their safety in emergency situations
- Professor Nils Feltelius, Medical Product Agency, Sweden - The Swedish experience of the 2009-2010 pandemic flu vaccination
- Dr. Wiltshire Johnson, Director, Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone - A developing country experience - theories, facts and realities
Workshop E: Innovation and big data in health surveillance
- Professor Jan Semenza, Acting Head of Section Scientific Assessment. ECDC - Monitoring Drivers of Infectious Diseases
- Dr.Kun Maggie Hu, Research Manager, Public Health and Food Safety, IBM Academy of Technology -Innovation and Big Data in Health Surveillance - Review past, plan for future
Workshop F: Whose priorities count? Empowering Scientific Capacities for locally-relevant and sustainable solutions
- Professor Bassirou Bonfoh, Director, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques: Capacity enhancing for impacts on health priorities in Africa
- Dr. Ferdinand Moyi Okwaro, Post Doctoral Fellow, Oslo University: Whose priority counts? Scientific capacities to locally relevant solutions (Presentation currently unavailable)
Workshop G: Drivers and constraints in modern typing tools for detection of food-borne infections
- Dr. Johanna Takkinen, Head of Disease Programme Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses, ECDC: Drivers and Constraints – application of molecular typing in surveillance of foodborne diseases in EU/EEA
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