Global Health Roundtable Series: “Can U.S. Foreign Aid Support What Works for Global Health?”

Roundtable

Global Health Roundtable Series: “Can U.S. Foreign Aid Support What Works for Global Health?”

Director:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health

May 2007 - Present

The Series was developed with the Global Public Health Practice at McKinsey & Company.

The goal of the series is to examine proven technologies that are known to be life-saving, but are not yet in widespread use in poor countries. A number of questions will be discussed, including: What are the barriers to ubiquitous use? What controversies surround them? Are there specific funding issues in Congress or in the Executive branch that currently make support for these efforts difficult, or impossible? Are there domestic political issues in the US that limit their application? Are there reasons that desirability of these innovations is limited, on the ground in target countries? Are there novel ways to overcome current barriers to implementation, including different economic models?

A CFR general meeting and four roundtables will take place throughout spring and summer of 2007 where medical technologies such as male circumcision, HPV vaccine, eyeglasses, HIV vaccine, and sterile syringes will be discussed.

Meetings

Global Health Roundtable Series: Japan and the G8

Roundtable Meeting

April 29, 2008

Presider:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Keizo Takemi, Vice Health Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Global Health Roundtable Series: How to Broaden the Availabilty of Eyeglasses Worldwide

Roundtable Meeting

October 9, 2007

Presiders:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
	Jordan S. Kassalow, Co-founder & Chairman, Scojo Foundation
	Liliana Riva-Clement, Manager, USAID Child Blindness Program
Speakers:	Leon Ellwein, Associate Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
	Kevin Frick, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
	Bruce Moore, Chair, Department of Specialty and Advanced Clinical Care, New England College of Optometry
	Frank Baynham, Chairman of the Board, Gift of Sight, Executive Vice President, Luxottica
	Jordan S. Kassalow, Co-founder & Chairman, Scojo Foundation
	Kathy Spahn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Helen Keller International
	Anthony Walton, Vice Chairman, Americas, Standard Chartered Bank
	Andrew Fisher, Executive Director, Lavelle Fund for the Blind
	Michael Zeilinger, Chief, Nutrition Division, U.S. Agency for International Development

Report summary by Kammerle Schneider

When Progress is Incremental: Implications of a Partial Efficacy HIV Vaccine for U.S. Foreign Policy

Roundtable Meeting

July 11, 2007

Presider:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:	Seth F. Berkley, President & CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
	Michael Robertson, Merck & Co., Inc.
	Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition

Report summary by Kammerle Schneider

When a Sharp Reduction of Economic Burden is within Reach: How Should U.S. Foreign Policy Address the Challenge of Sterile Syringes?

Roundtable Meeting

June 20, 2007

Presider:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, The Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:	Gary M. Cohen, Executive Vice President, Becton, Dickinson & Company
	Michael J. Free, Vice President, Senior Advisor for Technologies, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
	Renuka Gadde, Director, Global Health, Becton, Dickinson & Company
	Ahmed E. Gomaa, Senior Medical Officer and Chief of National Surveillance Team, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
	Edward Hoekstra, Senior Health Advisor Global Measles Programme & Health Emergencies, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Report summary by Kammerle Schneider

Global Health Roundtable Series: “Can U.S. Foreign Aid Support What Works for Global Health?” - HPV

Roundtable Meeting

June 4, 2007

Presider:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, The Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:	Judith Bruce, Senior Associate for Poverty, Gender, and Youth, The Population Council
	Mark Feinberg, Vice President of Medical Affairs and Policy, Merck
	Diane M. Harper, Professor, Director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group, Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical School
	Rob Hecht, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
	Mark Kane, Former Director of the Children's Vaccine Program, PATH
	Deborah E. Myers, Director, External and Government Affairs and Public Partnerships, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
	Anne Schuchat, Assistant Surgeon General, Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
	Anne Schuind, Director, Clinical R & D and Medical Affairs, Vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline
	Roberto Tapia, Former Vice Secretary of Health, Mexico

Session 1: HPV Vaccine Efficacy and Manufacturer Responsibility

Session 2: Challenges and Opportunities for HPV Roll-out

Session 3: Donor and Stakeholder Involvement: U.S. Policy and International Financing Update

Conquering Cancer one Poke at a Time: Can the HPV Vaccine Eliminate Cervical Cancer Worldwide? - By Sheri Fink

Is Male Circumcision the Key to Stopping the AIDS Epidemic?

Guest Event

May 7, 2007

Speakers:	Mark R. Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
	Thomas R. Frieden, Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Presider:	Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Is Male Circumcision the Key to Stopping the AIDS Epidemic? By Sheri Fink, MD, Harvard School of Public Health

This meeting is on the record.

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