Annick Antierens
Deputy Medical Director, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland
Annick Antierens earned a diploma of medicine, anaesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. After several missions as anaesthetist for Médecins Sans Frontières in Bosnia and the Belgian Red Cross in Rwanda, she worked as field coordinator and medical coordinator with several MSF sections in Mauritania, Kenya, Soudan and Ethiopia; she has also served as hospital director for MSF in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. She currently serves as the deputy medical director at MSF Switzerland headquarters in Geneva.
Seth Berkley
Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Seth Franklin Berkley is the Chief Executive Officer of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Prior to this, he was CEO and Founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the first product development public private partnership. Berkley is a physician who began his public health career as a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He contributed to the discovery of Brazilian Purpuric Fever and helped set up Uganda's national AIDS control program. In 2009, Berkley was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by TIME magazine. In 2010, Fortune magazine named Berkley as one of its "Global Forum Visionaries." He holds an MD from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.
Marton Cetron
Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Cetron's primary research interest is international health and global migration. He has led a number of domestic and international outbreak investigations and been involved in domestic and international emergency responses to provide medical screening and disease prevention programs to refugees prior to U.S. resettlement. He played a leadership role in CDC responses to intentional and naturally acquired emerging infectious disease outbreaks, including the anthrax bioterrorism incident, the global SARS epidemic, the U.S. monkeypox outbreak, and the H1N1 pandemic. Dr. Cetron holds faculty appointments in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Cetron received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1981 and his MD from Tufts University in 1985. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Virginia and infectious diseases at the University of Washington.
Sugy Choi
Research Associate, J.W. Lee Center for Global Medicine at the Seoul National University, College of Medicine
Sugy Choi received her BS in Foreign Service and MS in Global Health with a focus on health policy and financing from Georgetown University. She has been previously a consultant at Malaria Vectorborne, and other Parasitic Diseases team under the division of communicable diseases at the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila, the Philippines. Her work currently focuses on global health projects and evaluations in Southeast Asia and Africa, especially health equity and vulnerable populations. During the recent MERS outbreak in the Republic of Korea, she served as a volunteer translator and rapporteurs for Pro-med Mail and received ProMED-mail anniversary award in 2015.
Jeffrey Crowley
Program Director of the National HIV/AIDS Initiative at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
Mr. Crowley is a widely recognized expert on HIV/AIDS and disability policy. From February 2009 through December 2011, he served as the Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy for President Barack Obama. In this capacity, he led the development of the first domestic National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States, a five-year plan for aligning the efforts of all stakeholders to reduce the number of new HIV infections, increase access to care, and reduce HIV-related health disparities. He also coordinated disability policy development for the Domestic Policy Council and worked on the policy team that spearheaded the development and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He holds an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
Anthony S. Fauci
Director, U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Anthony Fauci joined NIAID in 1968 and was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. He has made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases. Dr. Fauci was the world's 10th most-cited HIV/AIDS researcher in the period from 1996 through 2006 and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and 42 honorary doctoral degrees, among many other honors. He earned an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College
in 1966 before completing an internship and residency
at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
David Fidler
James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law, Indiana University Mauer School of Law.
Professor Fidler is one of the world's leading experts on international law and global health security. He serves as an Associate Fellow with the Centre on Global Health Security at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and a Fellow with the Pacific and Asia Society. He is also on the Roster of Experts that advises the Director-General of the World Health Organization under the International Health Regulations (2005). Professor Fidler has served as an international legal consultant to the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was a member of the Harvard University-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola and a member of the Georgetown University-Lancet Commission on Law and Global Health. Professor Fidler holds a JD from Harvard Law School, a BCL and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, and a BA from the University of Kansas.
Renee Fox
Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, The University of Pennsylvania
Renée C. Fox joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, after serving as a member of the Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research, teaching for twelve years at Barnard College, and then spending two years as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. At the University of Pennsylvania, she was a professor in the Department of Sociology and served as a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics. Her major teaching and research interests - sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics - have involved her in first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly in Belgium), in Central Africa (especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo), and in the People's Republic of China, as well as in the United States. Professor Fox graduated summa cum laude graduate from Smith College in 1949, and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1954 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
Lawrence Gostin
University Professor and Georgetown University Law Center and Founding Linda D. & Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law; Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights
Prof. Gostin earned his B.A. from the State University of New York, Brockport and his J.D. from Duke University. Prof. Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights as well as on the International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. He served on the Director-General's Advisory Committee on Reforming the World Health Organization, as well as numerous WHO expert advisory committees on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, smallpox, and genomic sequencing data. Prof. Gostin, an elected lifetime Member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), National Academy of Sciences which has awarded him the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for distinguished service to further its mission of science and health, as well as a lifetime elected Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. Prof. Gostin's latest books are: Global Health Law (Harvard University Press, 2014); Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, 3rd ed. 2016)); and Law and the Health System (Foundation Press, 2014). Prof. Gostin is the Health Law and Ethics Editor, Contributing Writer, and Columnist for the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Sam Halabi
Scholar, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Associate Professor, The University of Tulsa College of Law
Professor Halabi is a scholar of national and global health law with a specialization in health services and pharmaceutical business organizations. He serves as a Scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, where he has also served as a special advisor to the Lancet-Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and Law. He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization and the National Foundation for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as publishing widely on healthcare system design, biomedical innovation, and vaccine safety. Before earning his J.D. from Harvard Law School, Professor Halabi was awarded a British Marshall scholarship to study in the United Kingdom where he earned an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford (St. Antony's College). He holds a BA and a BS from Kansas State University.
Gail Hansen
Senior Officer, Antibiotic Resistance Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Before joining Pew, Dr. Hansen served as the state epidemiologist and state public health veterinarian for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment where most of her work centered on infectious diseases and public health policy. While there, she led a team of epidemiologists that investigated outbreaks and sporadic cases of infectious disease, evaluated public health prevention measures, and developed disease tracking systems for the state. She has served on or chaired numerous state and federal infectious disease committees, as a scientific advisor for several national and international conferences, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications on various infectious diseases and public health topics and has provided practical training in applied epidemiology to public health scholars. She received her DVM from the University of Minnesota and her MPH in epidemiology from the University of Washington.
Jennifer Kates
Vice President and Director of Global Health & HIV Policy, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Dr. Kates oversees the Kaiser Family Foundation's policy analysis and research focusing on the U.S. government's role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. She regularly publishes and presents on donor government investments in global health; assessing and mapping the U.S. government's global health architecture, programs, and funding; and tracking and analyzing major U.S. HIV programs and financing, and key trends in the HIV epidemic. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a Senior Associate with The Lewin Group. She also directed the Office of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns at Princeton University. Dr. Kates serves on numerous federal and private sector advisory committees on global health and HIV including the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and Treatment (CHACHSPT) and PEPFAR's Scientific Advisory Board, and is an Alternate Board Member of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She received her Ph.D. in Health Policy from George Washington University, where she is also a lecturer.
Rebecca Katz
Associate Professor of Health Policy, George Washington University Milliken School of Public Health
Professor Katz is an expert on the intersection of national security and infectious diseases, including the threat posed by the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Her research is focused on public health preparedness, global health diplomacy, biosurveillance, and the intersection of infectious diseases and national security. Current research projects are focused on implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005). She also works on issues related to foodborne illness surveillance and response, and biosecurity and biosafety. Since 2004, Dr. Katz has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of State, working on issues related to the Biological Weapons Convention and emerging and pandemic threats.
Kevin Klock
Director of Operations / Advisor to the President at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Kevin Klock is Director of Operations and Advisor to the President for the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). The Foundation creates and manages alliances with public and private institutions in support of the NIH to accelerate key issues of scientific study and strategies against diseases and health concerns in the United States and across the globe. Prior to joining the FNIH, Klock was Head of Governance and Assistant Secretary for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Company Secretary for the Gavi Campaign. At Gavi, he advised board members, staff, and partners on public sector and corporate governance best practice and was lead staff member on governance for matters that involved Gavi's finance and debt-issuance activities including the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm). Klock received his JD, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a also graduate of Duke University, received his MA from American University, and attended Oxford University as a Lord Rothermere Scholar.
John Kraemer
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Systems Administration, Georgetown University
John Kraemer holds a JD from Georgetown University and an MPH from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His work focuses on the improvement of public health policy through evidence-based and legal approaches, including women's and children's health in sub-Saharan Africa, road safety for vulnerable road users, and constitutional public health law. His current and past projects include work with the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative against women's cancers, the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria, and Last Mile Health. At Georgetown, John teaches about the social and political dimensions of the HIV/AIDS response in the US and sub-Saharan Africa and the intersection of democracy, rights, and health.
Jong-koo Lee
Director, J.W. Lee Center for Global Medicine and the Office of Policy Development of Healthy Society and Professor of Family Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine
Professor Lee directs undergraduate and postgraduate student education and research for primary health care and public health policies including global health at the J.W. Lee Center as well as infectious disease epidemiology at Seoul National University Public Health School. He also acts as senior advisor of Seoul Metropolitan Infectious Disease Control Center, and was co-leader of WHO Joint mission to Republic of Korea on MERS-CoV in 2015. He graduated Seoul National University College of Medicine 1982, and majored Family Medicine in Seoul National University Hospital and received MPH degree in Epidemiology from the Seoul National University of Public Health School in 1985 and Ph.D in Health Policy and Management from Seoul National University College of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine in 2003.
Daniel Lucey
Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH is an Infectious Disease and Public Health Physician at Georgetown University Medical and Law Center. He is a Senior Scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Public Health Law. He has traveled to work during outbreaks ("Panepidemics") from 2003-2016 such as: SARS in China and Canada, H5N1 Avian flu in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Egypt, pandemic H1N1 flu in Egypt, MERS across 6 nations in the Middle East and Republic of Korea, Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, and Zika in Brazil. From 1982-2002 he worked in the HIV/AIDS from UCSF to Harvard, USAF-Texas, NIH-Bethesda, and in DC as Chief of Infectious Disease Service at the 900-bed Washington Hospital Center. From 2001-2016 he has been involved with anthrax biodefense including traveling to Sverdlovsk and Harbin, and being vaccinated against (multidrug resistant) anthrax. Dr. Lucey graduated from Dartmouth College and Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, and trained in Medicine at UCSF, and in Infectious Diseases at Harvard.
Mary Marovich,
Director of the AIDS Vaccine Research Program at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Mary Marovich leads the development and coordination of clinical and preclinical research on HIV vaccines at NIH. She came to NIH from the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), where she served as chief of vaccine research and development since 2005. Additionally, Marovich worked as the clinic director for MHRP's Rockville Vaccine Assessment Center, where she led multiple early-stage HIV and non-HIV vaccine clinical trials. She earned bachelor's degrees in biochemistry and chemistry at Illinois State University and a medical degree at Loyola University of Chicago-Maywood. In 1993, she completed a residency in internal medicine and clinical infectious diseases training at the University of Colorado and earned a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She is also an associate professor of medicine with the Uniformed Services University's Department of Medicine.
Veronica Miller
Senior Researcher and Lecturer, University of California-Berkeley and Executive Director, Forum for Collaborative HIV Research
Dr. Miller has extensive experience in working with all major global and U.S. organizations and agencies involved in HIV research and policy. Under her leadership the Forum's deliberative process to advance regulatory science applied successfully to HIV was extended to drug development for hepatitis C infection in 2007, and starting in 2014, to the treatment of liver diseases, and human cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ and stem cell transplant patients. Efforts led by Dr. Miller to advance public health policy through stakeholder engagement include the National Summit program, which focuses on the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the Viral Hepatitis Action Plan; and the Bay Area Health Disparities Program. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications on HIV treatment strategies and regulatory strategies for HIV and HCV. She joined the Forum in 2001 after having directed the interdisciplinary HIV Research Group at the HIV Outpatient Clinic of the JW Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Miller holds a PhD in Immunology from the University of Manitoba.
Saad Omer
Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics; Emory University, Schools of Public Health & Medicine; Investigator, Emory Center for AIDS Research
Dr. Omer is a Professor of Global Health, Epidemiology, & Pediatrics at Emory University, Schools of Public Health and Medicine. He is also a faculty member at the Emory Vaccine Center. He has conducted multiple studies - including vaccine trials - in Guatemala, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, and the United States. Dr. Omer's research portfolio includes clinical and field trials to estimate efficacy and/or immunogenicity of influenza, polio, measles and pneumococcal vaccines; studies on the impact of spatial clustering of vaccine refusers; and clinical trials to evaluate drug regimens to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa. He has conducted several studies to evaluate the roles of schools, parents, health care providers, and state-level legislation in relation to immunization coverage and disease incidence. Dr. Omer has published widely in peer reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Lancet, and the British Medical Journal. He is currently a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee.
Heather Pagano
Humanitarian Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières, Belgium
Ms. Pagano is a humanitarian advisor in MSF's Advocacy and Analysis Unit based in Belgium, with a focus on the politics of epidemic response and global health security. She joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 2008, serving as the Ebola advocacy and communication coordinator during the 2014-2015 West African epidemic, after extensive field and operations level communications experience. She has written widely on public health emergencies such as the Ebola epidemic and the South Sudan conflict, and most recently served as a communications expert analyzing the 2015 bombing of the MSF Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan.
Marc Poncin
Researcher and Humanitarian Expert, Médecins Sans Frontières, Switzerland
is a researcher and humanitarian expert at the Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH), Médecins Sans Frontières, Switzerland. He began his career as a researcher in structural biology after obtaining a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Paris 7 University. He joined MSF in 1995 and has in the intervening years worked extensively in Africa as emergency coordinator and head of various missions. He also served as Deputy Director General and Head of Programs of the Swiss branch of MSF. During the Ebola crisis, he served as the coordinator of the MSF response in Guinea from April to December, 2014.
Mark Siedner
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Researcher, Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark Siedner is an infectious disease clinician and researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital. He practices clinical medicine as an internist and general infectious diseases provider at Massachusetts General Hospital. He conducts clinical research, largely focused in sub-Saharan Africa, aimed at mitigating the causes of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV in low-income countries. Current projects include directing a longitudinal study of aging among HIV-infected persons in Uganda and a randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of implementing HIV-1 resistance testing into routine care in sub-Saharan Africa. He teaches clinical medicine, epidemiology, and research design both in Boston and in Uganda, and serves as a technical consultant to Last Mile Health, a non-governmental community health partner to the Liberian Ministry of Health. He holds an MD from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Adam Wexler
Director, Global Health Budget Project, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Adam Wexler focuses on tracking and analyzing the U.S. global health budget as well as the trends in international donor assistance for HIV and family planning activities. Prior to joining KFF, Adam worked as a policy analyst for the City of San Diego. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Gettysburg College and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University.
