Her Excellency Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari was appointed as Qatar’s Minister of Public Health in January 2016. She is also Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), a position she has held since 2007. Her Excellency is the Chairperson of numerous boards, including the Academic Health System International Advisory Board, the Hamad Healthcare Quality…
The First Lady of the Republic of Rwanda, Mrs Jeannette Kagame personifies an active, relentless and passionate devotion to uplifting the lives of vulnerable populations in Rwanda; particularly those of widows, orphans of the Genocide against the Tutsi and disadvantaged families. As the Nation’s First Lady, Mrs Kagame has admirably balanced family, social life and…
Her Excellency Dr. Mrs. Fatima Maada is the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone. She can be best described as a philanthropist and activist that exemplifies bravery, intelligence and servant leadership, as evident in the massive feats she continues to record in her humanitarian interventions and official work in her home country in…
Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari has been the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean since 1 June 2018. He was responsible for developing WHO’s strategic vision of Health for All by All throughout the Region, and now leads work to achieve that vision, including key initiatives to address the underlying social determinants of health,…
HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, film producer, columnist, and a princess of the AlSabah family, the ruling family of Kuwait. Her social enterprises (Intisars & Ebbarra) spearhead a new movement of women’s self-empowerment, while her non-profits (Alnowair, Bareec) supplement the formal education system and improve organisational cultures with programmes in socio-emotional…
Guy Ryder was first elected as ILO Director-General in 2012. He completed his final term of office in September 2022. He pursued a vision for an ILO that anticipates and responds effectively to 21st century realities, capable of reaching the most vulnerable and remaining true to its social justice mandate. In response to the COVID-19…
Professor Mohammed Al Maadheed M.D. Ph.D. MSc. has more than three decades of professional experience, both nationally and internationally, with governments, NGOs, and the private sectors in Healthcare, Sports Medicine, Anti-doping and Humanitarian fields. Professor Al Maadheed joined Qatar Red Crescent Society as CEO in 2001 with a budget of £1,000,000, operating only within Qatar,…
His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Khalid Bin Jabor Al Thani MD is the Founder and Chairman of Qatar Cancer Society, University of Calgary in Qatar Board of Trustees Chair, and Chairman of the Gulf Union Against Cancer. His Excellency served as Assistant Medical Director and Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation, Undersecretary for the Ministry of…
Dr. Jepsen is CEO and Founder of Openwater, a breakthrough medical technology company. She has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (“Time100”), in addition to CNN’s top 10 thinkers in science and technology. She has over 250 patents published or issued to her name. Previously,…
Professor Caulfield graduated in Medicine in 1984 from the London Hospital Medical College and trained in Clinical Pharmacology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he developed a research programme in molecular genetics of hypertension and translational clinical research. At Queen Mary University of London Professor Caulfield has made substantial contributions to the discovery of genes related…
Patricia Scotland was born in the Commonwealth of Dominica. She is the tenth of twelve children and grew up in London. She completed her LLB (Hons) London University at the age of twenty and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple at the age of twenty-one. Her career has been marked by achieving a…
H.E. Dr. Mamadou Tangara is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad of the Republic of The Gambia. He was appointed Minister in 2018. A position he previously held from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Tangara served as an Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of The Gambia to the…
HRH Princess Dina Mired is a well-known passionate global advocate for Cancer Control and Non-Communicable Diseases and mother of a cancer survivor. HRH Princess Dina currently serves as the Honorary President of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), Patron of International Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), Member of WHO Expert Group for the…
Peter Sands has been the Executive Director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria since March 2018. Since June 2015 Peter has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University, dividing his time between the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Global Health Institute. Peter was…
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine Cairo University in 1998 He completed his fellowship in Arab Board Program in Community Medicine in 2006 He gained the Fellowship from the Faculty of Public Health in London in 2010 He obtained a Master in Business Administration in 2014 from HEC Paris France (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales…
Maryam was born on 1 July 1975. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Arts and Education – Qatar University, 2000. Maryam started working in the National Committee for Human Rights (NHRC) since its inception, and then she has moved up the career ladder in series of various positions and job roles. In 2004, she started…
Ambassador Al-Thani was appointed Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in October 2013. An international though leader on human rights, social justice and sustainable development issues, Ambassador Al-Thani has authored and facilitated numerous ground-breaking General Assembly Resolutions dealing with issues such as international day to protect education from attack, the…
Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Sherman also serves as the Medical Director for Yale New Haven Health…
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh is Chair of Primary Care Research and Development, Director of the Usher Institute and Dean of Data at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), Director of the Health Data Research UK BREATHE Hub and is with Lord Ara Darzi Co-Director…
Kasper Bergmann is Vice-President of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) championing human rights for deaf people. The WFD is the world’s oldest and largest uni-disability organisation having member organisations from 133 countries around the world representing more than 70 million deaf people using sign languages. Kasper is representing the WFD at the World…
Dr. Dena Al-Thani is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of Interdisciplinary Programs at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Al-Thani was awarded her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Queen Mary University of London; her thesis specialized in Human-Computer Interaction and Inclusive Design. She has obtained a…
In September 2017, Mr. Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz was appointed as the Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations in New York. Prior to his appointment, he was the United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Africa from 2012 to 2017, having previously been serving as Permanent Representative of…
Dr. Kamran Abbasi MB ChB, FRCP is a doctor, journalist, editor and broadcaster. Following five years in hospital medicine, working in various medical specialties such as psychiatry and cardiology, he moved into senior editorial roles at the British Medical Journal from 1997 to 2005. He returned to The BMJ in a new role as executive…
Darryl Barrett is a health and legal professional with 25 years’ experience in service delivery, public policy, regulatory reform and programme development. He has over 14 years’ experience advising governments and civil society in more than 30 countries across the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. This has included living and working in fragile and…
As Director of the Health Workforce Department at the WHO, Jim oversees the development and implementation of global public goods, evidence and tools to inform national and international investments in the education, development and retention of the health and social sector workforce in pursuit of global health security, universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development…
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove is the COVID-19 Technical Lead for the World Health Organization and the Head of Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses in WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist. Dr Van Kerkhove’s research spans zoonotic emerging and re-emerging high threat pathogens such as avian influenza, MERS-CoV, SARS, SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, Marburg, plague…
Holm Keller serves as Executive Chairman of KENUP Foundation, a global partnership in innovation, promoting research-based innovation for the public and societal benefit. Previously, for 10 years, Mr. Keller held the elective public office as Chancellor and Executive Vice President for University Development and Innovation at Leuphana University in Germany. Prior to his public service…
Jerome H. Kim, M.D., is an international expert on the development and evaluation of vaccines and is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for Global Health. IVI’s oral cholera vaccine is used around the world to prevent this deadly…
Lady Roslyn Morauta took up office as Vice-Chair of the Global Fund Board in May 2019. She has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea since 1982. Prior to that, she worked in publishing in England, taught Politics at the University of Ghana, the Australian National University and Queensland University, and worked as a research…
Ghida AlJuburi, JD, PhD is a Senior Scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Her interests lie in exploring the intersection of health, culture, religion, and the law. Her previous research and writings have focused on orphan diseases such as Sickle Cell disorders impacting minority, migrant and immigrant…
Professor Didier Houssin is presently the president of AP-HP International, the subsidiary of Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (Greater Paris University Hospitals). Professor of surgery and liver transplant specialist at Paris-Descartes University since 1988, Didier Houssin served as head of surgery at Cochin hospital in Paris, then as executive director of the French…
Dr. Al Khal earned his MBBCh from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1989. He undertook his internship at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in the State of Qatar, and in 1991, joined the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, CT, USA, followed by completion of a 2-year…
Paola is CEO of ADI. Prior to this, she was CEO of LIFE and occupied senior positions with Cass Business School, Tate, British Library and IIED. She is a Board Member of the World Dementia Council, a Trustee of The Postal Museum and of Lauderdale House and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Previously…
Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite, MD, MP is Member of the Portuguese National Parliament (4th term), Vice President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Parliamentary Board, and Head of Public Health at Católica University of Portugal. He is Founding President of ‘UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health’, currently present in +85 countries, and including more than…
Richard J. Hatchett, MD, is Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI – a global partnership that supports the swift development of and equitable access to new vaccines and other defenses against infectious diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential. Dr. Hatchett’s and CEPI’s plan is for the world to neutralize…
Angela Coulter is a UK-based health policy analyst and researcher, with special interests in patient and public involvement. A social scientist by training, she has higher degrees in health services research from the University of London and the University of Oxford. Now freelance, she chairs the Public Advisory Board of Health Data Research UK, the…
Hala Ousta is a Senior Diversity & Accessibility Manager at FIFA. Combining both her education and experience, Hala has covered a wide range of roles and responsibilities related to both equality, diversity, inclusion, and sport development in local, national, and international contexts. Prior to joining FIFA, Hala led the Scottish FA’s efforts to secure the…
Dr. Asmaa Al Fadala is the Director of Research at WISE. She is also a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. With over twenty years of experience in K-12 education, higher education, and policy development, she has served as policy writer at the governmental level, professor, author of books on leadership reform and board member on…
Neil Watkins leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s policy, advocacy, and communications work on nutrition and agriculture. He manages a global portfolio of policy and advocacy grants on nutrition and agriculture issues and led the development of the foundation’s first nutrition advocacy strategy. Before joining the foundation in 2012, Neil led advocacy and policy…
Dr. Sanaa Alharahsheh is a Research Manager at World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a member of Qatar Foundation. She previously worked as a Senior Researcher at Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), a member of Qatar Foundation. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Wayne State University, MI, USA in 2011. She has more than…
Professor Muhammad Waqar Azeem is an internationally recognized academician and health care leader with Sidra Medicine. He is an Inaugural Chair of Psychiatry for Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He and his team have played an instrumental role in establishing child, adolescent and perinatal psychiatry…
A lawyer by training, Marie Barsacq worked for ten years for the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF), devoting her energies to employment, training and qualification in the sporting movement. She then joined the French Football Federation (FFF) where she set up the Institute of Football Coaching (IFF) before becoming the FFF’s association general manager for…
Ruth Stringer is an environmental scientist and activist with over thirty years in research, policy, and implementation. Her early career as a research fellow at the Universities of London and, later, Exeter, centred on the sources of, implications and solutions of chemical pollution. Using the capabilities of the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer to look beyond the…
Howard was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in February 2019. He is committed to ensure that ICN effectively represents nursing worldwide, advances the nursing profession, promotes the wellbeing of nurses and advocates for health in all policies. Throughout his career Howard has worked and written extensively on issues…
Professor Corinne Reid is a clinical psychologist and global consultant working in elite sport for more than 25 years. She supports Olympians in maintaining individual and team wellbeing in high performance environments. She advises coaches and players about leadership under pressure. Professor Reid is a Senior Research Fellow with the Global Health Academy and Global…
Fawzia is a policy and program analyst. Tackling the climate and environmental crises are her priorities. Fawzia leads the work on decarbonising health operations for the Aga Khan Health Services, across 8 countries and involving over 500 health facilities with ambitions of Net Zero operations by, if not before, 2030. Innovations developed through this experience…
Dr. Fiona Bull is the Head of the Physical Activity Unit within the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining WHO in 2017, she was a Professor of Public Health and Director of the Research Centre on Built Environment and Health at the University of…
Emma is FIND’s Chief Access Officer and is currently leading the ACT-Accelerator Diagnostics Partnership on behalf of FIND and The Global Fund. She is a public health doctor with a focus on global health strategy and delivery. Her work has been centred at a global level on organizational strategy in global health, and at a…
Dr. Hanan Abdul Rahim is an Associate Professor and the Dean of the College of Health Sciences at Qatar University, the country’s largest national university. She has a PhD in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from the University of Oslo, Norway (2003); a MSc in Biology from Illinois State University, IL, USA (1994), and a BSc…
Prof. Dr. Karine Sargsyan is Managing Director for International Biobanking and Education, Vice Scientific Leader and Lecturer of the Master’s university programs Biobanking and Human Centered Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at the Medical University of Graz. She built the Biobank Graz from the fist moment of institutionalization. Under visionary her management, Biobank Graz, has been…
Dr. Luz María De-Regil, DSc, MSc, currently heads the Unit of Multisectoral Actions in Food Systems at the World Health Organization. This area of work includes Accelerated Actions in Food Safety, implementation and monitoring of policies for reducing obesity and the consumption of potentially harmful dietary ingredients, as well as food-based approaches to improve people’s…
Dr. Mark Barone holds a PhD in Human Physiology and two post-graduate diplomas, in Diabetes Education and in Communication. He has more than two decades of experience in public and global health, education, empowerment and advocacy, with studies and books published. Mark is a former Global Health Leaders Fellow (2016-2019) – a program developed in…
Dr. Nahla Maher Afifi earned her MBBCh with honors from Ain Shams University, Egypt. She received her Master of Anatomy & Embryology, and a Diploma of Gynecology and Obstetrics from the same University. She received her Ph.D. of Anatomy & Embryology in 1996 from Ain Shams University under a joint supervision with University of Medicine…
Renzo Guinto, MD DrPH is the Chief Planetary Health Scientist of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Malaysia. Concurrently, he is the Inaugural Director of the Planetary and Global Health Program of the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine in the Philippines. He is also a member of the National Panel of Technical…
Iris Blom is a 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researching how to make health systems more sustainable and resilient in the context of climate change. She is a medical doctor from the Netherlands with a Master’s Degree in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China as a Schwarzman…
Mary Harvey is an accomplished and innovative sports governance and sustainability executive with 15+ years leading worldwide initiatives to achieve societal change and gender equity through sports. Mary’s initiatives have been implemented globally through a variety of organisations, having sustained impact in the empowerment of girls and women, inclusion of marginalised groups, and stewardship of…
Honorary Professor of Service Effectiveness & Health Intelligence, Glasgow University Clinical Data & Digital Lead, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Clinical Professor in Public Health, Qatar University Prof Adil MD, FRCPE, FFPH, FFCI has over 25 years of medical, public health, executive management and policy experience. He has delivered on key positions in…
Dr. Tinubu-Karch, affectionately known as “Dr.T-K”, has been a practicing physician specializing in General Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at a number of health organizations; including; The Polyclinic, Swedish Medical Center, University of Washington and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound in Seattle, WA. She currently serves as a Clinical instructor at…
Dr. Murhaf Assaf studied medicine and graduated in 2010, then began specialization and training in general surgery, graduating as a general surgeon in late 2015. Because of the ongoing war Murhaf worked as a war surgeon in the conflict zone and sometimes on the frontline. In 2016, he worked in eastern Aleppo under siege with…
Dr. Michaela Th. Mayrhofer is a political scientist and historian by training. She was educated in Vienna, Louvain-la-Neuve, Essex and Paris. Her academic career led her to various positions and stays at the Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société, the University of Vienna, the Institute of Technology and Society Studies at the Alpen-Adria-…
Professor Mowafa Said Househ, Ph.D., is a Professor of Digital Health affiliated with Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Science and Engineering, Qatar Foundation, Qatar. His primary research interests cover the use of information and communication technologies to empower patients and clinicians, with a special focus on the applications of Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and…
Pia MacRae is CEO of Consortium for Street Children, a global network of organisations working to guarantee the rights of street-connected children. In her work in the not-for-profit sector, Pia has focused on the areas of health, education, and child protection, with a particular interest in government systems strengthening and child rights. She has worked…
Mark is an accessibility and inclusive design consultant with a wide range of experience on major international programmes for over 20 years. For the majority of the last eight years he has been working for the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy for the Qatar 2022 World Cup programme. Initially his role in Qatar was…
James has spent more than 20 years working on humanitarian and conflict issues with a focus on the Middle East, including time living in Syria and Lebanon. He previously worked at Chatham House, MAP and Crisis Action. He has an MA from Kings College London and a BA from Exeter. He is a contributing author…
Dr. Tarek Sunna is the Head of Neurosurgery Division at Aman Hospital. He is certified from the Arab board of Neurosurgery, and European board of Neurosurgery, and he is a fellow of the Royal College of surgeons of Edinburgh, and the American College of Surgeons, and is the first international surgical advisor to the Royal…
Professor emeritus of Virology in charge of the Virology Laboratory in Necker Hospital (APHP). and in the Necker medical school in Paris, France. Director of the EA 7327 Research team at Paris Descartes University. The main areas of research on HIV associated to international scientific publications concerned: HIV diagnosis in adults and babies, HIV therapeutics,…
Alison Parry-Jones (BSc, MA, PhD, MRSC) is the Operations Director of the Wales Cancer Biobank (WCB). She is responsible for the day to day running of the biobank and is based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. She is the Designated Individual on the WCB licence issued by the Human Tissue Authority and…
Duley is CEO of Legacy of War Foundation, photographer, writer, chef and presenter, born in 1971 in London. His work focuses on the long-term humanitarian impact of conflict. Starting his career as a music photographer, Duley worked with the likes of Mariah Carey, Oasis and Lenny Kravitz for publications including Q, Vogue, Sunday Times and…
Gonzalo is an ecologist recognized as a global leader in the promotion of sustainability, with an emphasis on innovative free market solutions to environmental issues. As executive director of Earthna, he guides the center’s mandate of enhancing Qatar’s role within the global sustainability policy ecosystem. His previous positions included Managing Director for External Affairs at…
Dame Sally Davies is the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University and the first woman to hold the post. She was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on AMR in 2019. Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2011-2019. She is…
President Biden appointed Sara Minkara as the Special Advisor on International Disability Rights. In this role, Special Advisor Minkara leads the U.S. Department of State’s comprehensive strategy to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities internationally. Prior to joining the Department of State, she founded and served as CEO of Sara Minkara, LLC,…
Professor Gilbert joined the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University in 1994 and became part of the Jenner Institute (within NDM) when it was founded in 2005. Her chief research interest is the development of viral vectored vaccines that work by inducing strong and protective T and B cell responses. She leads the Jenner…
H.H. Sayyida Basma Al Said is a well-established Mental Health Clinical Counselor, founder of the first mental health clinic in Oman, Whispers of Serenity and founder of mental health campaign Not Alone. She is also a hypnotherapist and PTSD trainer with over 21 years of experience seeing and treating patients from a wide array of…
Dr. Al Emadi is a certified clinical psychologist by the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar. She currently functions as a licensed psychologist to treat behavioral disorders, specifically drug addictions. She is considered to be teaching family relations at Qatar University. She has delivered several courses and workshops in this field in Qatar and abroad…
Shereen El Feki is Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at UNAIDS. She is the author of Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World (Penguin Random House), a groundbreaking study of sexuality and its intersection with politics, religion and culture across MENA. Before joining UNAIDS, Shereen was a Regional Director with Promundo, where she led the International…
Dr. Shona Macleod is a research consultant leading a project looking into the access to healthcare of children in street situations for Street Child United and Consortium for Street Children. Shona holds a PhD in International Development from SOAS, University of London. From 2019-2022 she was employed at Consortium for Street Children, leading the organisation’s…
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan has been appointed Chief Scientist heading the division created to strengthen the organisation’s core scientific work and ensure the quality and consistency of its norms and standards. She was previously Deputy Director-General for Programmes (DDP). A paediatrician from India and a globally recognized researcher on tuberculosis and HIV, she brings with her…
Stéphanie Seydoux was appointed French Ambassador for Global Health in 2018, representing France in international organizations such as The Global Fund against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Unitaid. In her role, she contributes to the design and implementation of the French Strategy for Global Health which focuses on strengthening health systems, promoting equitable access, with…
Stephen is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and futurist with 300+ recognitions/awards. His leadership working daily with more than 400K+ CEOs, investors, scientists with the world’s leading CEO, scientific, technical, health, and financial organizations allow him a unique vantage point to oversee where investments and transformative global innovation is heading in the coming years. He is…
Professor Tim G. Benton leads the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. He joined Chatham House in 2016 as a distinguished visiting fellow, at which time he was also dean of strategic research initiatives at the University of Leeds. From 2011-2016 he was the ‘champion’ of the UK’s Global Food Security programme which was…
As Founder-President of The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Her Excellency Mrs. Toyin Ojora Saraki is a global advocate for women’s and children’s health and empowerment, with two decades of advocacy covering reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; ending gender-based discrimination and violence; and improving education, socio-economic empowerment and community livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Mrs.…
Victoria Hornby OBE is CEO of Mental Health Innovations. From 2011 to 2017, she was Director of Programmes at The Royal Foundation, building a portfolio of projects including the Invictus Games, Coach Core, United for Wildlife and Heads Together. Before joining the Foundation, Victoria was a Senior Executive at the Sainsbury Family Trusts and CEO of…
Professor Mohamed-Ali is Deputy Director of the Centre for Metabolism & Inflammation, University College London; Scientific Advisor for Research, Anti-Doping Lab Qatar (ADLQ) and a Member of the Medical & Scientific Committee, IOC, since 2015. The Medical and Scientific Commission’s mission is to provide a guiding reference for all other sports organisations on matters relating…
Vincenzo Paglia was born in Boville Ernica, (Frosinone, Italy) on 21 April, 1945, and obtained a degree in theology and philosophy from the Lateran University and another one in pedagogy from the University of Urbino. He was ordained as priest on 15 March, 1970, and from 1981 to 2000 served as parish priest in the…
Experience: United Nations Expert commissioner to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2021-2024 Vice president of the Working Group for Women and Girls with disabilities, 2021-2024 Best Buddies Panama – President, 2015 – present Tribu DDB – President, 2010 – 2016 Voces Vitales Panamá – Member of the Advisory Board,…
Dr. Shen is currently a Professor and the Chief Scientific Officer of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xilis Inc. He was formerly the Hawkins Family Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health…
Dr. Ximena Garzón-Villalba, MD, PhD, CPH, is an experienced professional in Public Health, who was appointed as Minister of Health in May 2021, and performed those functions until July 2022. Right now, she is Presidential Advisor to the Ecuadorian Government for public health issues and is member of the International Vaccine Institute Board of Trustees representing…
Dr. Youngmee Jee (MD, PhD) is Chief Executive Officer of the Institut Pasteur Korea and also serves as Special Representative for Health Diplomacy, Korea Foundation. Dr. Jee has broad experience in collaborating with WHO and international public health partners. Currently, Dr. Jee is a member of the WHO International Health Regulation Emergency Committee on COVID-19 and…
Zahra Babar has published several articles and chapters on areas of her research, most recently, “The 2022 World Cup and Migrants’ Rights in Qatar: Raciaised Labour Hierarchies and the Influence of Racial Capitalism,” with N. Vora, in The Political Quarterly (2022), “Qatar, the World Cup, and the Global Campaign for Migrant Workers’ Rights,” in Football…
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 on gene–environment interactions and disease-based collections. This WHO infrastructure supports multinational efforts…
