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Keynote Address | By Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Under-Secretary-General of the UN

During his keynote address at the Sustainable Health and Development event, UNAIDS Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Michel Sidibé reflected on the Millennium
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Panel 1 | The Components of Global Health Security, MNCH, and Infectious Disease Agendas, is Integration Possible?

Speakers

  • Marleen Temmerman, Director of Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO
  • Rick Herbert, Member of United Kingdom Parliament
  • Frédéric Bontems, Director for Development and Global Public Goods, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

Transitioning from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Panel 2 | Exploring South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Health and Development

Speakers

  • Dr. Richard Frank, Chief Medical Officer, Siemens Healthcare
  • Akash Bhavsar, CEO, SkyQuest Management Consulting Group
  • Mariana Faria, Head of Office, UNASUR-ISAGS
  • Teresa Liu, Envoy of the Secretary-General on South-South Cooperation, on behalf of Yiping Zhou, Director of UNOSSC
  • UNAIDS representative
Participants discussed how South-South and triangular partnerships could apply lessons learned over the
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Panel 3 | 15 Years of Collaborations: Champions and Partnerships

Honored Guests

  • Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Under-Secretary-General of the UN
  • The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, Mégantic-L’Érable (Quebec), Canada
Recognizing the Leaders and Programs which have Generated Change during the Millennium Development Goals

This celebratory lunch highlighted champions, as well as organization and partnership leaders, and provided
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Panel 4 | Decreasing Complexity to Encourage Private Sector Investment in Health

Speakers

  • The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, Mégantic-L’Érable (Quebec), Canada
  • Gary Cohen, Executive Vice President, Becton Dickinson
  • Terri Bresenham, President & CEO, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, GE Healthcare

Continued improvements in health require the diversification of resources as well as sustainable,
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Panel 5 | Global Financing Facility (GFF)

Speakers

  • Suprotik Basu, CEO of the Office of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and for Malaria
  • Dr. Tore Godal, Special Advisor to the Norwegian Prime Minister on Global Health
  • Rama Lakshminarayanan, Senior Public Health Specialist and Team Leader for the Quality Enhancement Group of the Health, Nutrition and Population Department, World Bank
  • Dr. David Barash, Chief Medical Officer of Life Care Solutions, General Electric Healthcare
  • Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, Child and Maternal Survival Coordinator, USAID

Building In-Country and Regional Capacity – the Global Financing Facility (GFF)

While the Global Financing Facility (GFF), launched in July 2015, has already aligned billions dollars to
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