Global Health Roundtable Series: "Can U.S. Foreign Aid Support What Works for Global Health?"
Staff: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health
May 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009
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
Roundtable Meeting
Closing the Gaps in Latin America in a Time of World Crisis
Speaker: Julio Frenk Mora, Harvard School of Public Health
Presiders: Laurie Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations
Shannon K. O'Neil, Council on Foreign Relations
February 26, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Japan and the G8
Presider: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Keizo Takemi, Vice Health Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
April 29, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
How to Broaden the Availabilty of Eyeglasses Worldwide
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
October 9, 2007
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Roundtable Meeting
When Progress is Incremental: Implications of a Partial Efficacy HIV Vaccine for U.S. Foreign Policy
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
July 11, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
When a Sharp Reduction of Economic Burden is within Reach: How Should U.S. Foreign Policy Address the Challenge of Sterile Syringes?
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)
June 20, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
HPV
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
June 4, 2007
Guest Event
Is Male Circumcision the Key to Stopping the AIDS Epidemic?
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
May 7, 2007
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