World Health Day Agenda
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9:00 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Mark Ritchie, President, Global Minnesota
- Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor, State of Minnesota
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, Director-General, World Health Organization
9:15 am – Global Perspectives on Health Equity
- Michael J. Nyenhuis, President, UNICEF USA
- Amy Goldman, President, Chief Executive Officer & Chair, GHR Foundation
- Jakub Tolar, MD, PhD, Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School
- G. Anton Decker, MBBCh/MD, President, Mayo Clinic International
- Ed Bastian, Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines
- James Hereford, President and CEO, Fairview Health Services
- Helen Clark, 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand; Chair, The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, World Health Organization
10:30 am – Tackling Health at the Strategic Level
- Henry Ting, MD, Chief Health Officer, Delta Air Lines
- Margaret-Mary Wilson, MD, Chief Medical Officer/Senior Vice President, UnitedHealthcare Global
- Pierre R. Theodore, MD, Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Global External Innovation
11:30 am – A Conversation with Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm, PhD, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota
12:00 pm – Partnering for Global Health Equity Through Access and Outcomes
- Geoff Martha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic
- Paurvi Bhatt, President, Medtronic Foundation
- Jackie Boucher, President, Children’s HeartLink
1:00 pm – Health Equity: What We Can Learn from Each Other
- Ali Diallo, Founder and General Partner, United Capital Group
- Jean-Paul Smets, Founder and CEO, Nexedi
- Niousha Roshani, PhD, Co-Founder, Global Black Youth
2:00 pm – Pandemic Preparedness and Health Equity
- Leith Greenslade, Co-ordinator, Every Breath Counts Coalition
- Nneka O. Sederstrom, PhD, Chief Health Equity Officer, Hennepin Healthcare
- Sister Carol Keehan, Head, Health Task Force Vatican COVID-19 Commission
3:00 pm – Social and Economic Benefits of Health Equity
- Phyllis Kurlander Costanza, Head, UBS in Society, CEO, UBS Optimus Foundation
- Efe Ukala, Founder, ImpactHER
- Azza Karam, PhD, Secretary General, Religions for Peace International
- Diane Tran, Senior Director, Community Engagement, Fairview Health Services
4:00 pm – The Role of Health Equity in Sustainability and Resilience
- Claudia Romo Edelman, Founder/CEO, We Are All Human Foundation
- Juan Jose Gomez Camacho, Ambassador of Mexico to Canada
- David Nabarro, BCh BM/MD, Co-Director, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
- Edie Lush, Journalist, Co-Host Global GoalsCast
4:45 pm – Closing Remarks
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