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Appendix E: Workshop Speaker Biographies
Appendix E: Workshop Speaker Biographies
Pages 139-154
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Dr. Aguilera was the Chilean representative during the negotiations on the revision of the International Health Regulations, and official delegate for Asia-Pacific Economic Forum Health Working Group, and for MERCOSUR sub-working group on health.
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He was Health Commissioner in Anambra State, Nigeria; UK Department for International Development (DFID) health programmes consultant to Health Ministers on Policy, Plans and Systems Development; and Coordinator of the DFIDsupported Federal Ministry of Health Health Sector Reform/Health Millen nium Development Goals Technical Team.
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Elias oversees Global Development's portfolio in agriculture development; emergency response; family planning; financial services for the poor; maternal, newborn, and child health; nutrition; polio eradication; vaccine delivery; and water, sanitation, and hygiene. A common theme of these programs is innovative and integrated delivery, including an emphasis on strengthening of primary health care systems.
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Prior to this, he served as Director of the Health Equity Theme at The Rockefeller Foundation. Earlier in his career he was an attending physician of internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and was Assistant Professor in International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Calderone Prize in Public Health, the Henry G Friesen International Prize in Health Research, and the Harvard Medal, awarded by the alumni association of the university from which he earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees.
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During her 6-year tenure there, she implemented rigorous public health initiatives that tackled the city's most pressing crises head-on, including improved services for women and children, an internationally recognized tuberculosis control program, a needleexchange program to combat HIV transmission, and the nation's first public health bioterrorism defense program. In 1997, President Clinton named Dr.
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(CBE) , is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London; and Chairman of Public Health England, United Kingdom.
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Mr. Heywood has written extensively on HIV, human rights, and the law, including co-editing the AIDS and the Law Resource Manual and Health & Democracy: A Guide to Human Rights, Health Law and Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
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She is the author of Risky Trade: Infectious Diseases in an Era of Global Trade (Ashgate, 2006) , which was highly reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine, Emerging Infections, and Lancet.
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He has been a faculty member of the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the School of Public Health of Mexico, and visiting professor at several universities in the United States, Spain, and Latin America in fields such as epidemiology, health systems, health planning, and health economics. Between 1986 and 2005, he worked for the Pan American Health Organization WHO Regional Office for the Americas in different capacities, including the positions of Director of Health Systems and Director of Program Management.
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McIff has negotiated resolutions on noncommunicable diseases, on the role of the health sector in addressing interpersonal violence, and on strengthening the International Health Regulations, and, most recently, with South Africa he co-chaired the negotiations on the Ebola resolution during the WHO Special Session. Before his posting as Health Attaché at the U.S.
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Kumanan Rasanathan, M.P.H., is a public health physician and Senior Health Specialist at UNICEF in New York. He works on district health system strengthening to improve the delivery of maternal and child health services, with a particular focus in South and East Asia, and including links to universal health coverage.
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St. John, M.D., M.P.H., has had a 35-year career in public health and infectious disease control in the United States and Canada, and at the World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas. With undergraduate, medical, and public health degrees from Yale, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Harvard, his career has included the planning, management, and policy review of international and national infectious disease control programs, quarantine and migration health, travel medicine, the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, travel medicine, and counter-terrorism.
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He was involved in various global initiatives, including the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing, and the International Organizing Committee of the Prince Mahidol Award Conference. Since March 2013, he has served as the Chair of the Parliamentary Caucus on Stop TB Partnership and, since October 2013, as the Chair of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development.
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degree summa cum laude in Latin American studies, his M.D. degree from Cornell University, and a master of public health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and did his pediatric training at the Children's Hospital in Boston.
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