Berlin, Germany | October 21^st - 24^th, 2012

Confirmed Speakers 2010

Ala Alwan
Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Eduardo Aninat
Professor of Public Finance and CEO
ISAPRES de CHILE ag
Chile

Francisco Armada Perez
Technical Officer, WHO Kobe Centre
World Health Organization
Japan

Allison Barlow
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections
Institut Pasteur
France

Ulrike Beisiegel
Council of Science and Humanities
Scientific Commission
Germany

Robin Bell
Associate Professor
Monash University
Australia

Matthew Berg
Director of ICT for Millennium Villages Project
Earth Institute Columbia University
USA

Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Professor and Chairman
The Aga Khan University
Pakistan

Ted Bianco
Director of Technology Transfer
The Wellcome Trust
UK

Jean-Claude Boidin
Head of Unit, Human development, social cohesion and employment
European Commission
Belgium

François Bompart
Vice-President, Deputy Head & Medical Director
Sanofi Aventis, Access to Medicines Department
France

Emina Borovina
Project Coordination & Logistics
European Students Conference
Germany

Jo-Ivey Boufford
Chair
InterAcademy Medical Panel
USA

Helge Braun
Secretary of State
Ministry of Education and Research
Germany

Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya
Vice President of the Republic of Uganda
Uganda

Ricky Burdett
Director
LSE Cities, London School of Economics
UK

Christian Burri
Head of the Department of Medicine Research
Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
Switzerland

Ben Canny
Professor
Monash University
Australia

James Chau
News Presenter
China Central Television and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador
UK

Mickey Chopra
Chief of Health and Associate DirectorUNICEFSouth AfricaAwa Marie Coll-Seck Executive Director Roll Back Malaria Partnership Switzerland

Francis S. Collins
Director
National Institutes of Health
USA

Pierre Corvol
President
Collège de France
France

Bill Crounse
Senior Director, Worldwide Health
Microsoft Corporation
USA

Penelope Dash
McKinsey
UK

Nils Daulaire
Director of Global Health Affairs
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
USA

Dame Sally C. Davies
Director General for Research and Development
Department of Health
UK

Andreas Demetriades
Director General
Health Insurance Organization Cyprus
Cyprus

Ulrich Dirnagl
Center for Stroke Research Berlin
Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Hans Dohmann
Municipal Secretary for Health
Brazil

Jean-Jacques Dordain
Director General
European Space Agency
France

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli
Director Health Directorate
European Commission
Belgium

Marlene Drysdale
Associate professor
Monash University School of Rural and Indigenous Health
UK

Jim Easton
National Director for Improvement and Efficiency
Department of Health
UK

Martin Ebinger
Center for Stroke Research
Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Karl Max Einhäupl
Chief Executive Officer
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Timothy Evans
Dean
James P Grant School of Public Health
Bangladesh

Andreas Fibig
CEO
Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Germany

N. Forster
Deputy Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Health and Social Services
Namibia

Antoine Flahault
Director
EHESP School of Public Health
France

Detlev Ganten
President of the World Health Summit
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Pedro Garcia Aspillaga
Dean of the Faculty of Health
Saint Thomas University
Chile

Jean-François Girard
Président
PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité
France

J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Direktor des Instituts für Versicherungsbetriebslehre
University of Hannover
Germany

Wolfgang Greiner
Professor of Health Economics and Health Care Managenent
University of Bielefeld
Germany

Anand Grover
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
United Nations
Switzerland

Annette Grüters-Kieslich
Dean
Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Andrew Haines
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
UK

Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Executive Director
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
Italy

Peter S. Heller
Economist, Fiscal Expert, and Public Speaker
Johns Hopkins University
USA

Martin Hernandez
Dean Medical School & VP Biotechnology & Health
ITESM
Mexico

Rainer Hess
Chair
Federal Joint Committee Germany

Tony Hickson
Director of the Technology Transfer team
Imperial Innovations Ltd.
UK

Edward Hillhouse
Professor of Medicine and Dean for International Development
University of Leeds
UK

Liselotte Højgaard
Chair
European Medical Research Councils
Denmark

Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief
The Lancet
UK

Richard Hudson
Founder
Science|Business
UK

John Humphreys
Professor of Rural Health Research
Monash University School of Rural Health
Australia

Zsuzsanna Jakab
Regional Director
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Denmark

W. Philip T. James
President
International Association for the Study of Obesity
UK

Joe Jimenez
CEO
Novartis AG
Switzerland

Vidar Jorgensen
President
Grameen Healthcare
USA

Stefan Kaufmann
Director
Max Planck Society
Germany

Michel Kazatchkine
Executive Director
The Global Fund
Switzerland

Michael J. Klag
Dean
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA

Robert Kocher
Former Special Assistant to the President
McKinsey & Company
USA

Mihály Kökény
Chair of the Executive Board
Former Minister of Health
Hungary

Klaus-Peter Koller
Professor
sanofi-aventis
Germany

Heyo K. Kroemer
Dean, Medical Faculty
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald
Germany

Heidi Larson
Policy Group Head, Institute for Global Health
Imperial College London
UK

Julian Le Grand
Chairman LSE Health
London School of Economics and Political Science
UK

Rose Leke
Doctor
University of Yaounde
Cameroon

Liming Li
Vice-President
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
China

Julian Lob-Levyt
Former Chief Executive Officer
GAVI Alliance
Switzerland

Michael Marmot
MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
University College London
UK

Ulrike Maschewsky-Schneider
Chairperson
Berlin School of Public Health at Charité
Germany

Kathleen M. Metters
Senior Vice President External Discovery & Preclinical Sciences
Merck & Co., Inc.
USA

Tomica Milosavljevic
Minister
Ministry of Health
Serbia

Luc Montagnier
Nobel Prize Laureate
World Foundation AIDS Research and Prevention
France

Rob Moodie
Inaugural Chair Nossal Institute of Global Health
University of Melbourne
Australia

Aaron Motsoaledi
Minister
Ministry of Health
South Africa

Shuh Narumiya
Professor
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Japan

Dan Ncayiyana
Editor
Benguela Health
South Africa

Maria Neira
Director Department of Public Health and Environment
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Touré Ousmane
Minister
Ministry of Health
Mali

Tikki Pang
Director Research Policy & Cooperation
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Vinod K. Paul
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
India

Deborah C. Peel
Founder and Chair
Patient Privacy Rights Foundation
USA

Doris Pfeiffer
Chief Executive Officer
National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-Spitzenverband)
Germany

Gregory Phillips
Adviser to the Dean of Medicine on Indigenous Health Issues
Monash University
Australia

Eckard Picht
Program Director in Life Sciences
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Germany

Peter Piot
Director
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
UK

Pekka Puska
Director General
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Finland

P. Sripathi Rao
Dean
Kasturba Medical College
India

Michael Rawlins
Chairman
National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence
UK

Olivier Raynaud
Senior Director, Global Health and Healthcare Sector
World Economic Forum
Switzerland

Srinath Reddy
President
Public Health Foundation of India
India

Jörg Reinhardt
Chief Executive Officer
Bayer HealthCare AG
Germany

Victor G. Rodwin
Director of the World Cities Project
New York University
USA

Philipp Rösler
Federal Minister
Federal Ministry of Health
Germany

Andrzej Rýs
Director of Public Health
European Commission
Luxembourg

Kaveh Safavi
Vice President
Cisco Systems
USA

Luis Sambo
Regional Director Africa
World Health Organization
African Region
Congo

Jorge Sampaio
Former President of Portugal
UN Secretary-General's Special
Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis
Portugal

Mathuram Santosham
Director of the Center for American
Indian and Alaskan Native Health,
and the Program for Health Systems
Johns Hopkins University
USA

Chikako Saotome
Management of Patent Application and Publication at University
Kyoto University
Japan

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Director
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Germany

Nina Schwalbe
Managing Director Policy
and Performance
GAVI Alliance
Switzerland

Bernard Schwartländer
Switzerland

Robert Sebbag
Vice President Access to Medicines
sanofi-aventis
France

Nelson K. Sewankambo
Principal
Makerere University College of Health Sciences
Uganda

Edward H. Shortliffe
President and CEO
American Medical Informatics
Associations
USA

Uwe Siebert
Professor of Public Health
UMIT
Australia

Peter Singer
Director
Grand Challenges Canada
Canada

Stephen K. Smith
CEO and Principal of the Faculty of Medicine
Imperial College London
UK

Peter C. Smith
Professor of Health Policy
Imperial College London
UK

Ann Starrs
President
Family Care International
USA

Philipp Sterzer
Department of Psychiatry
Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Günter Stock
President
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
of Sciences and Humanities
Germany

Jaap Suermondt
Lab Director
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP Labs)
USA

Balazs Szathmary
Senior Director, Global Strategy & Operations Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Business Unit
Oracle
Germany

Volker ter Meulen
Past President
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Germany

Lynn Tetrault
Executive Vice President
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
UK

Oumar Ibrahima Touré
Minister
Ministry of Health
Mali

Claudia Travassos
Senior Researcher
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Brazil

Christopher A. Viehbacher
Chief Executive Officer
Sanofi-Aventis
France

Wolfram von Pannwitz
Head of Business Development Charité
Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

Steven A. Wartman
President and Chief Executive Officer
Association of Academic
Health Centers International
USA

Susanne Weber Mosdorf
Assistant Director General
World Health Organisation
Belgium

Steve Wesselingh
Dean
Monash University
Australia

Hal Wolf
Senior VP and Chief Operating Officer
Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation
USA

Klaus Wowereit
Governing Mayor of Berlin
Germany

Shah Yasin
Monash University
Malaysia

Ada E. Yonath
Institute Professor
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel

Elias Zerhouni
Past President
Johns Hopkins University
USA

Eleni Zika
European Research Council (ERC)
Belgium

Vera Zylka-Menhorn
Chief Medical Editor
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