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

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

COP29 Advisory Board member

PAULIN BASINGA

Director, Africa, Gates Foundation

KARINA BASREWAN

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

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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

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

ELENI (LENIO) MYRIVILI

Global Chief Heat Officer, UN-Habitat and Arsht-Rock

NIDHI NAGABHATLA

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

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WILLIAM PAN

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Global Environmental Health at Duke University

JONATHAN PATZ

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Department of Population Health Sciences; Center for Sustainability & the Global Environment (SAGE), University of Wisconsin-Madison

REVATI PHALKEY

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

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

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

YOUNGO Health Working Group

SALLY UREN

CEO, Forum for the Future

JUAN PABLO URIBE

Global Director, Health, Nutrition & Population, World Bank

RAMAN VELAYUDHAN

Unit Head, Veterinary Public Health, Vector Control and Environment, World Health Organization

NEIL VORA, MD

Policy Fellow, Conservation International

DAVID WALTON

US Global Malaria Coordinator, President’s Malaria Initiative

GEORGE WAMUKOYA

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)

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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DINESH ARORA Principal Health Specialist, Asian Development Bank

FORMER PRESIDENT JOYCE BANDA, MALAWI ​

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PAULIN BASINGA

KARINA BASREWAN​

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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

STEPHEN CORNISH General Director, Médecins sans Frontières Switzerland (Doctors Without Borders)

LAKSHMI DHEWHANTI

MARTIN EDLUND CEO, Malaria No More

RENZO R. GUINTO Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore

HANDE HARMANCI

LAURA SL HERMAN Partner, Dalberg Advisors

ROBERT HUGHES​

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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

ELENI (LENIO) MYRIVILI Global Chief Heat Officer, UN-Habitat and Arsht-Rock

NIDHI NAGABHATLA​

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SHWETA NARAYAN Global Climate & Health Campaigner, Healthcare Without Harm

MARIA NEIRA Director, Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department, World Health Organization