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Jay McAuliffe, CDC Country Support Lead for GHI, will moderate a discussion with colleagues Randolph Augustin (Health Team Leader, USAID Liberia) and Mary Fanning (Health Attaché and PEPFAR Coordinator, US Embassy-South Africa), focusing on the status of GHI Country Strategies in Liberia and South Africa.  The country strategy for Liberia has two focus areas:  Improving service delivery through the Essential Package of Health Services; and Strengthening health systems to increase institutional capacity and sustainability.  The Country Strategy for South Africa is in final stages of clearance.  Details on the plans will be provided during the webinar.  Following the presentations, participants will be able to present questions to Randolph and Mary. Moderator: Smita Baruah, Global Health Council

A Discussion on the GHI Country Strategies Date: Oct. 4, 2011 Time: 10-11 am This month’s call on the Global Health Initiative (GHI) focuses on the development and implementation of GHI country strategies. To-date, 35 GHI country strategies are under way, and 7 are complete and published. Catherine Gordon, RN, MBA, Senior Public Health Analyst in the Global Health Initiative at the State Department hosts the call. She is joined by the GHI Country Support Team, principal GHI liaisons to in-country health teams and support personnel for review of strategy documents, who will highlight a few specific countries and their GHI strategies. Visit website  http://www.ghi.gov/ Speakers Catherine Gordon, RN, MBA  read bio Jay McAuliffe, MD MPH  read bio Mamadi Yilla  read bio Janis Timberlake  read bio Funmi Adesanya  read bio Irene Koek  read bio Ms. Alisa (Aly) Cameron  read bio

This month’s call on the Global Health Initiative (GHI) introduced Chris Dorval, Senior Advisor, Strategy and External Relations of GHI’s Senior Leadership Team, housed at the Department of State. This call discussed emerging developments in GHI’s external communications. Featured speakers: Lois Quam, Executive Director , GHI Chris Dorval, Senior Advisor, Strategy and External Relations, GHI Moderator: Smita Baruah, Interim Co-CEO, Global Health Council

Country representatives from Bangladesh and Nepal will discuss how GHI has been rolled out in their country with respect to working in an interagency fashion and how GHI is shaping the work that they do in country going forward.

GHC's David Olson interviews Lois Quam (Executive Director, Global Health Initiative) and Lee Anthony Brudvig (US Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Embassy in Kenya) at the 38th Annual International Conference on Global Health sponsored by Global Health Council

You are cordially invited to attend the 38th annual International Conference on Global Health sponsored by the Global Health Council - June 13 to June 17, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC. "Securing a Healthier Future in a Changing World" http://www.globalhealth.org/conference_2011/

Global Health Council announces the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) as the winner of the 2011 Gates Award for Global Health at the 64th World Health Assembly. Established in 1975, TDR is a global program of international technical cooperation, with the two interdependent objectives of developing improved tools for the control of tropical diseases and strengthening research capability within affected countries. More than 50 jurors from 20 countries participated in the selection process. And this year’s winning organization was chosen from a highly competitive field of 112 nominations. Recent winders include: GHESKIO in Haiti, Aravind Eye Care System in India, and the Carter Center from the United States. Established in 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began recognizing organizations that have made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health. Further, these organizations have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource-poor settings, with measurable results. The Gates Award comes with a $1,000,000 honorarium and is administered by the Global Health Council. The Global Health Council would like to thank the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation for the opportunity to administer this award and their continued support of our mission. The Global Health Council is a membership alliance of nearly 500 organizations and more than 5000 individuals from some 140 countries devoted to improving health and saving lives throughout the world. Speakers: Dr. Jeffrey Sturchio, President and CEO, Global Health Council [Correction: 0:08 – The Council is a membership alliance of nearly 500 Organizations and more than 5000 individuals.] Ambassador John E. Lange, Senior Program Officer in Global Health, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization Dr. Robert Ridley, Director, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) Links: Global Health Council TDR Bill Melinda Gates Foundation 2011 Gates Award for Global Health 2011 Annual Conference on Global Health [Global Health Council]

Delivering Impact in Women and Children’s Health: The Challenges and Opportunities of Service Integration Monday, April 11, 2011 8:45 am – 12:35 pm Hamilton Crowne Plaza Ballroom On April 11, 2011, the Global Health Council and its partners held the event “Delivering impact in women and children’s health: The challenges and opportunities of service integration” at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC. The purpose of this event was to explore the definition and meaning of the term integration; identify the contextual factors that promote and inhibit the integration of global health programs; and highlight some of the best practices in maternal, newborn and child integration and health systems strengthening. The morning included sessions organized by USAID’s flagship maternal, newborn and child health integrated program (MCHIP), FHI, and Management Sciences in Health (MSH), and was generously funded by the United Nations Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. If you have any questions about the event, please contact Rachel Hampton at rhampton@globalhealth.org. Speaker: Jeffrey Sturchio, President and CEO, Global Health Council

What does Integration Mean, Exactly? Delivering Impact in Women and Children’s Health: The Challenges and Opportunities of Service Integration Session Organizer: USAID's flagship maternal, newborn and child health integrated program (MCHIP) In recent years, the term “integration” has gained increasing prominence in the global health community to describe service delivery or to systems and management, or in some cases both are implied. Confusion surrounding the definition and use of the world often results in misunderstanding among policy makers and global health practitioners, affecting program development and implementation. This session will discuss the various definitions and uses of the term “integration,” and will include examples from a management perspective and that of in country integrated programming. Speakers: Steve Hodgins, Global Leadership Team Leader, MCHIP/JSI Cat McKaig, Family Planning Team Leader, MCHIP/Jhpiego Joseph de-Graft Johnson, Newborn Health and Community Interventions Team Lead, MCHIP/Save the Children

Part of the Series: Securing a Healthier Future with Vaccines Presented by the Global Health Council and Research!America Thursday March 31, 2011 12:30 - 2 pm The proof is undeniable: Vaccines save the lives of millions every year. Polio, which can cause lifelong paralysis and even death, can be prevented with an oral vaccine that costs only 50 cents to deliver per dose. Prior to the development and distribution of the first vaccine, polio paralyzed at least 1,000 children every day and annual polio epidemics occurred throughout the world, including in the United States. As a result of international efforts to immunize every child, 5 million people are now walking who would otherwise be paralyzed. Introduction of the polio vaccine has saved the U.S. alone an estimated $180 billion in treatment costs for the disease. Today, the world stands at the threshold of being polio-free, but a global funding shortfall for immunization activities threatens to derail the effort. As part of our vaccine-focused series of briefings, this event will highlight both the economic and health impacts of the polio vaccine in the United States and abroad, and why this remains an important commitment. Moderator: Peg Willingham, Executive Director, Global Vaccines Campaign, United Nations Foundation Presenters: David Bowen PhD, Deputy Director, Global Health Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation John Sever, MD, PhD, Vice Chair International PolioPlus Committee, Rotary International About the Series: At the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Gates called upon the global health community to make the next 10 years about vaccines and their enormous ability to save lives. Embracing this invitation, Global Health Council and Research!America are co-hosting a series, Securing a Healthier Future with Vaccines, that aims to demonstrate the long-term benefits of vaccine research and development, both in terms of economic impact and lives saved. Learn about past successes, the potential of new and emerging vaccines, and the benefits of furthering support of the research and development of future vaccines. This series, “Securing a Healthier Future with Vaccines” is supported, in part, by Merck. http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/1337

Presenter: David Bowen PhD Deputy Director, Global Health Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Demonstrated Impact in the Fight Against Malaria: Success Through Partnership and Leadership Thursday, March 17, 2011 Capitol Hill, Rayburn 2255 Co-chaired by the offices of Congressmen Donald Payne and Jeff Fortenberry Co-sponsored by the Malaria and NTD Caucus Moderator: Craig Jaggers, Senior Policy Advisor, Advocacy and Government Relations, World Vision Opening Remarks: Congressman Jeff Fortenberry and Congressman Donald Payne Featuring: Robert Newman, MD, MPH, Director of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Program Natasha Bilimoria, Director, Friends of the Global Fight Richard Greene, Director of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition, USAID Abdullah S. Ali, Director, Zanzibar Malaria Control Program Co-hosts: For More information, please visit: http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/1332

A New Vision for Health Systems in the 21st Century: Investing in People March 7, 2011, 12:30 - 2 pm Preston Auditorium The World Bank Washington, D.C. Keynote Speaker Hon. Julio Frenk Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Former Minister of Health, Mexico Chair Cristian Baeza Sector Director, HDNHE Respondent Al-Karim Haji Director General and Chief Financial Officer, The Aga Khan University Panel Harvey V. Fineberg President, Institute of Medicine Jeffrey L. Sturchio President and CEO, Global Health Council Wrap-Up Alexander S. Preker Head of Health Industry Group, CICHE Hope Sukin HealthTeam Leader, Office of Sustainable Development, Bureau for Africa, USAID The first decade of the 21st Century ended with a much improved understanding about the health threats facing developing countries as well as innovative and affordable technologies to address them. Despite the financial crisis and economic downturn, global health expenditure has continued to grown rapidly during the past decade both in terms of domestic and donor funding. The binding constraint to further advances is no longer money or knowledge. It is the lack of people. Hon Julio Frenk will present his vision on these issues and discuss recommendations by the “Global Independent Commission” that he recently chaired in commemoration of the centenary of the Flexner Report. Link to the book: Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthprofessionals/ About the Speakers Cristian Baeza is the World Bank's Director for Health, Nutrition and Population, Human Development Network. Dr. Baeza has re-joined the World Bank from McKinsey Company where he was a Partner leading its Global Health Systems Financing Cluster. Hon Julio Frenk. Since January 2009, Dr. Julio Frenk is Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and T G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, a joint appointment between the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and HSPH. Dr. Frenk served as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, where he introduced universal health insurance. He has also held leadership positions at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the Mexican Health Foundation, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Carso Health Institute. In September of 2008, Dr. Frenk received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for changing “the way practitioners and policy makers across the world think about health.” Al-Karim Haji is responsible for the financial affairs of the Aga Khan University globally. AKU operates in eight countries with 13 teaching sites, seven hospitals and 216 health centers. He spends a significant amount of time working with multilateral and bilateral development banks and governments to securing financing for the University, establishing business development offices to facilitate commercialization of intellectual property, and pursuing income generating activities that cross subsidize academic programs. Mr. Haji sits on the Board of the First Microfinance Agency Pakistan (Private) Limited, is a member of the Aga Khan Development Network Endowment Investment Committee, and a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs Vancouver and Karachi Chapters. He is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia and a Canadian Chartered Accountant. Mr Haji has been very involved in community service including having served two years on the Senate of the University of British Columbia, and voluntary work with the United Way and other organizations. Jeffrey L. Sturchio is president and CEO of the Global Health Council. Before joining the Council, Dr. Sturchio was vice president of Corporate Responsibility at Merck Co. Inc., president of The Merck Company Foundation

A New Vision for Health Systems in the 21st Century: Investing in People March 7, 2011, 12:30 - 2 pm Preston Auditorium The World Bank Washington, D.C. Keynote Speaker Hon. Julio Frenk Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Former Minister of Health, Mexico Chair Cristian Baeza Sector Director, HDNHE Respondent Al-Karim Haji Director General and Chief Financial Officer, The Aga Khan University Panel Harvey V. Fineberg President, Institute of Medicine Jeffrey L. Sturchio President and CEO, Global Health Council Wrap-Up Alexander S. Preker Head of Health Industry Group, CICHE Hope Sukin HealthTeam Leader, Office of Sustainable Development, Bureau for Africa, USAID The first decade of the 21st Century ended with a much improved understanding about the health threats facing developing countries as well as innovative and affordable technologies to address them. Despite the financial crisis and economic downturn, global health expenditure has continued to grown rapidly during the past decade both in terms of domestic and donor funding. The binding constraint to further advances is no longer money or knowledge. It is the lack of people. Hon Julio Frenk will present his vision on these issues and discuss recommendations by the “Global Independent Commission” that he recently chaired in commemoration of the centenary of the Flexner Report. Link to the book: Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthprofessionals/

The First in a New Series: Securing a Healthier Future with Vaccines Presented by the Global Health Council and Research!America Thursday Feb. 17, 2011 12:00 - 1:30 pm This Event: Bill Gates calls them miracles. Mothers call them life-savers. Presidents say there is no better cost-effective health intervention. The proof is undeniable. Vaccines save the lives of millions every year, most of them children. There are more than 2 million vaccine-preventable deaths each year, over 50,000 of which occur in the U.S. The series of seven vaccines given to children in the U.S. is estimated to save $53 billion in direct and societal costs over their lifetimes. Vaccines: The Best Shot For Our Health and Economy - the first in a series of four vaccine-focused briefings - will highlight both the economic and health impact that vaccines have, the lives they save, and the reason why supporting the research and development of future vaccines is one of the most effective ways to secure a healthier future globally and at home in the United States. The Series: At the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2010, Bill Gates called upon the global health community to make the next 10 years about vaccines and their enormous ability to save lives. Embracing this invitation, Global Health Council and Research!America are co-hosting a series Securing a Healthier Future with Vaccines, that aims to demonstrate the long term benefits of vaccine research and development, both in terms of economic impact and lives saved. Learn about past successes, the potential of new and emerging vaccines, and the benefits of furthering support of the research and development of future vaccines. Moderator: Michael Gerson Columnist, Washington Post and Senior Fellow, ONE Campaign (Video shown during introduction: http://one.org/us/livingproof/other_infectious_diseases/vaccines_journey.html   Presenters (presentations can be found http://www.globalhealth.org/event_presentations/): Jon Andrus, MD Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization Amie Batson, MPPM Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development Phil Hosbach Vice President, Immunization Policy and Government Relations, Sanofi Pasteur Julia A Lynch, MD, COL, MC, USA Director, Military Infectious Disease Research Program (MIDRP), Ft Detrick, Maryland, Walter Reed Army Institute for Research This series, "Securing a Healthier Future with Vaccines" is supported, in part, by Merck. Event Item: http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/13250 Listen to QA from this session: http://globalhealthcouncilspeaks.podbean.com/2011/02/17/question-answer-vaccines-the-best-shot-for-our-health-and-economy