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Appendix A
Public Session Agenda

July 29, 2015
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, Lecture Room
Washington, DC

Objectives:

The International Oversight Group will present the Statement of Task to the Commission and make any clarifications if needed.
The expert panel will address issues of governance, finance, resilient health systems, and medical products research and development when responding to infectious disease outbreaks of international concern at the global, regional, national, and local levels. The Commission will consider the different perspectives presented as they develop the approach for this study.

9:00–9:05 am	Opening Remarks
9:00–9:05 am	Peter Sands, Commission Chair
9:05–10:00	Background of the Initiative
	Victor Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine;
	Chair, International Oversight Group (IOG)
	Reflections from IOG Members
	Hugh Chang, Director, Strategy, Planning & Management for Global Development, Gates Foundation [by video-teleconference]
	Shigeru Omi, President, Japan Community Health Care Organization [by phone]
	Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore; IOG member [by phone]
	Charge to the Commission
	Judith Rodin, President of The Rockefeller Foundation; Vice-Chair of the IOG
	Q and A from Commission
10:00–10:40	Landscape of Other Global Initiatives
10:00–10:40	Ramesh Rajasingham, United Nations High Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises

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	Barbara Stocking [by video-teleconference] and Ilona Kickbusch, Independent Panel to Assess World Health Organization’s (WHO's) Response to Ebola
	Q and A from Commission
10:40–10:50	Break
10:50 am–1:00 pm	Panel: Lessons Learned on Issues of Governance, Finance, Resilient Health Systems, and Medical Product Research and Development on the Preparedness and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks of International Concern
10:50 am–1:00 pm	This panel will inform the commission about key challenges and lessons learned for the preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks of international concern. Specifically, the panelists will respond the following questions: What were the key issues on governance, finance, resilient health systems, and medical products research and development that were the most challenging to overcome for your organization/country/community when responding to an infectious disease outbreak of international concern? Are there any key lessons learned from past outbreaks or health emergencies that you have been able to implement in your response and that have improved the control of epidemics? What are the most important aspects or evidence that this commission should consider throughout the course of the study?
10:50	Introduction to the Panel
10:50	Patrick Kelley, Director, Board on Global Health, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
11:00	The United Nations Response
11:00	David Nabarro, United Nations Special Envoy on Ebola [video presentation]
11:15	The World Health Organization’s Role
11:15	Christopher Dye, WHO Team Lead for Epidemiology and Information Management in the Ebola Response
11:30	Preparedness and Response at the Regional Level
11:30	Ron St. John, Consultant, WHO MERS Incident Manager
11:45	The National Government’s Capacity to Detect and Respond to a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
11:45	Stephen Gaojia, Head of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, Sierra Leone
12:00 pm	Role of Communities—Achieving Real Community Understanding and Ownership of the Response
12:00 pm	Juliet Bedford, Anthrologica

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12:15	The Role of the Private Sector—The World Economic Forum Report “Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics: Options for Public–Private Cooperation”
12:15	Trish Stroman, The Boston Consulting Group
12:30	Q and A from the Commission and IOG members
1:00	Adjournment of Public Session
1:00	Peter Sands, Commission Chair

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