APRIL 2025
FHF Global Summit 2024
SPEAKERS
Introducing the Forecasting Healthy Futures Global Summit 2024 Speakers. Below, you will find information about our esteemed speakers and panelists who are leading experts in their fields.
SYLVAIN ALDIGHIERI​
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Director, Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention, Control & Elimination, Pan American Health Organization
DINESH ARORA
Principal Health Specialist, Asian Development Bank
FORMER PRESIDENT JOYCE BANDA, MALAWI ​
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COP29 Advisory Board member
PAULIN BASINGA
Director, Africa, Gates Foundation
KARINA BASREWAN​
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News Anchor at S.E. Asia Today News, CNN Academy Storyteller
GARY BELKIN
Director, Billion Minds Institute, Chair, COP2, and Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
HUZAIFA BILAL
Country Lead, Health System Strengthening, Khushi Baby
BÁLTICA CABIESES
Professor, Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile, Board Member, Lancet Migration Latin America, Director, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Capacity Building
OLIVER CAMP
Environment and Food Systems Advocacy Advisor, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
ANN CANAVAN
Senior Director, International Medical Corps
DR. MICHAEL ADEKUNLE CHARLES
CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria
MATT CLARK
Partnerships Director, Health Electrification & Telecommunications Alliance (HETA), Abt Global
ALEXANDRA COCKBURN
Executive Producer, BBC Storyworks
STEPHEN CORNISH
General Director, Médecins sans Frontières Switzerland (Doctors Without Borders)
LAKSHMI DHEWHANTI
Director General, Climate Change, Indonesia
MARTIN EDLUND
CEO, Malaria No More
RENZO R. GUINTO
Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore
HANDE HARMANCI
WHO Representative and Head of Country Office, Azerbaijan
LAURA SL HERMAN
Partner, Dalberg Advisors
ROBERT HUGHES​
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Principal Investigator, Children, Cities and Climate Action Lab, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
AMY ICKOWITZ
Senior Scientist, Governance, Equity, and Well-being, CIFOR-ICRAF
SARA JERVING
Journalist, Devex
TOM KAKAIRE
Head, Strategy & Planning, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere U
VANESSA KERRY
CEO, Seed Global Health & WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health
CECILIA KINUTHIA-NJENGA
Director, Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress, UNFCCC
CINDY KOBEI
Indigenous Woman Climate Policy Fellow, Conservation International
NQATYISWA (NIKKI) MENDU
Engagement and Communications Coordinator, Invisible Flock
JENI MILLER
Executive Director, Global Climate and Health Alliance
ADITI MUKHERJI
Director, CGIAR Climate Impact Platform
MITHIKA MWENDA
Executive Director, Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance
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ELENI (LENIO) MYRIVILI
Global Chief Heat Officer, UN-Habitat and Arsht-Rock
NIDHI NAGABHATLA​
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Senior Fellow, United Nations University – CRIS
SHWETA NARAYAN
Global Climate & Health Campaigner, Healthcare Without Harm
MARIA NEIRA
Director, Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department, World Health Organization
ENG EONG OOI, BMBS, PHD, FRCPATH
Professor, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Associate Dean (Early Research Career Development), Office of Academic Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School
WILLIAM PAN
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Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Global Environmental Health at Duke University
JONATHAN PATZ​
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Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Department of Population Health Sciences; Center for Sustainability & the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin-Madison
REVATI PHALKEY​
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Global Director Health and Nutrition, Save the Children International
TAYLOR QUINN
Executive Director, Tailored Food
TAMER RABIE
Global Program Lead for Climate and Health, World Bank
DR. JUAN JOSE RACHADELL
Research Director, Feeding The Change
YALCHIN RAFIYEV
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs & Chief Negotiator of COP29
TALA AL RAMAHI​
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Chief Strategy Officer, Reaching the Last Mile
MAARTEN VAN DE REEP
Regional Director, East & Southern Africa, Evidence Action
MARINA ROMANELLO
Executive Director, Lancet Countdown
BUDI GUNADI SADIKIN
Minister of Health, Indonesia
PETER SANDS
Executive Director, Global Fund
HAMZAH SARWAR
Global Social Impact and Partnerships Director, Reckitt
DR. P.K. SEN
Former Additional Director-General, MoHFW, Government of India and
Director, NVBDCP, India
SIMON SHELLEY
Chief Commercial Officer, Hi Impact
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DAVID SMITH
Director, Centre for Environmental Management, University of the West Indies
ANNA SOAVE
Head of Country Programme, UN-Habitat Azerbaijan
ARAVINDAN SRINIVASAN
Head, Climate Action Platform, AVPN
HARSHITA UMESH​
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YOUNGO Health Working Group
SALLY UREN
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CEO, Forum for the Future
JUAN PABLO URIBE
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Global Director, Health, Nutrition & Population, World Bank
RAMAN VELAYUDHAN
Unit Head, Veterinary Public Health, Vector Control and Environment, World Health Organization
NEIL VORA, MD
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Policy Fellow, Conservation International
DAVID WALTON​
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US Global Malaria Coordinator, President’s Malaria Initiative
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GEORGE WAMUKOYA​
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Policy Expert, African Group of Negotiators Expert Support
KELLY WILLIS
Managing Director, Forecasting Healthy Futures
STEFAN WHEAT, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Director, Planetary Health Theme, University of Washington School of Medicine
DR. CAROL ZAVALETA-CORTIJO
Co-Chair of the Indigenous People Observatory Network: climate-food-health nexus (IPON)