Speakers
The following speakers are invited to speak at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting - Asia, Singapore 2013:
Mr. Lee Hsien Loong
Prime Minister of Singapore
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Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
President, Institute of Public Health of India, India
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Ms. Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
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Prof. Peter Piot
Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
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Dr. Mary-Claire King
American Cancer Society Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
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Dr. Richard Horton
Editor-in-chief, The Lancet, UK
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Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert
Senior Adviser for Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
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Prof. William Hsiao
K.T. Li Professor of Economics Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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Ybhg. Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Abu Bakar Suleiman
President, International Medical University, Malaysia
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Prof. Ajay Mahal
Finkel Chair of Global Health, Monash University, Australia
Prof. Alan Lopez
Rowden-White Chair in Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Dr. Alan Ong
Deputy Director, Community Mental Health, Community Health Branch, Primary and Community Care Division, Ministry of Health, Singapore
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Prof. Sir Alasdair Breckenridge
Chair, Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee, Immediate Past Chairman, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, UK
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Prof. Alastair Campbell
Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Dr. Alfredo Bengzon
President and Chief Executive Officer, Medical City Hospital, Philippines
Mr. Alex Chang
Head of Asia Cluster, Novartis, Singapore
Dr. Ali Ghufron Mukti
Vice Minister, Ministry of Health, Indonesia
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Mr. Amit Jain
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Healthpoints, India
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Busch
Head of Bayer HealthCare Global Drug Discovery and Member of the Executive Committee, Bayer HealthCare Global Drug Discovery, Germany
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Prof. Andrew Morris
Chief Scientist for Scotland, UK
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A/Prof. Anh Innes
Director, CAP-TB Project, FHI 360, Thailand
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Dr. Anita Wagner
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, USA
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Prof. Dr. Anthony Francis Jorm
Professorial Fellow and NHMRC Australia Fellow, Population Mental Health Group, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Mr. Antonio Meloto
Founder, Gawad Kalinga, Philippines
Dr. Arturo Pesigan
Team Leader of Urban Health Emergency Management, WHO Center for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre), Japan
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Dr. Audrey Chia
Associate Professor, NUS Business School & Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Co-Director, Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Phliantrophy, Singapore
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Mr. Augustine Anthuvan
Editor, International Desk, Channel NewsAsia, Singapore
Dr. Bhashkaran Naidoo
Technical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), United Kingdom
Prof. Bernard Yeung
Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor and Dean, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Brian Oldenburg
Professor and Chair, International Public Health Unit, Monash University, Australia
Prof. Bryan Grenfell
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, USA
Ms. Caitlin MacLean
Associate Director of Financial Innovations Labs, Milken Institute, USA
Assoc. Prof. Carolyn Lam
Consultant, Cardiac Department, National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS) Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, IAMP YPL 2012, Singapore
Mr. Chan Wah Tiong
Director, Community Care Development Divisions, Agency for Integrated Care, Singapore
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Prof. Chia Kee Seng
Dean, Saw See Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A/Prof. Chong Siow Ann
Vice-Chairman Medical Board (Research), Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
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Dr. Christina Misa Wong
Scientist, FHI 360, USA
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A/Prof Chua Hong Choon
Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
Prof. Colette Browning
Deputy Head, Professor of Healthy Ageing, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Australia
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Prof. Daehee Kang
Dean, Professor, Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Republic of Korea
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Dr. David L. Heymann
Head and Senior Fellow, Chatham House Centre on Global Health Securiy and Professor, Infectious Diesase Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
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Mr. David Nabarro
UN Special Representative, Food Security and Nutrition, UK
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Prof. David Reisman
Professor of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Mr. David Zuellig
Board of Trustees, Zuellig Family Foundation, Philippines
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Assoc. Prof. Dennis Ross-Degnan
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Director of Research, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, USA
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Mr. David Hayward Evans
Head of Philanthropy and Values-Based Investing, UBS, Singapore
Dr. Deyer Gopinath
Medical Officer (MVP), WHO Office in Laos
Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten
Founding President, World Health Summit, Chairman, Foundation Board, Charité Foundation, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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Dr. Eduardo Krieger
President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences & National Academy of Medicine, Brazil
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Ms. Emorn Wasantwisut
Senior Advisor, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Thailand
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Dr. Enki Tan
Executive Chairman, Giti Tire Company Ltd., Singapore
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Dr. Ferry Soetikno
President Director, Dexa Medica, Indonesia
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Dr. Fung Mei-Lin
Chairman Institute for Service Organization Excellence, Board Member NUS America Foundation, United States
Mr. Gan Kim Yong
Minister for Health, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Hans Hogerzeil
Professor of Global Health, University of Groningen, Netherlands
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Dr. Huang Yanzhong
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
Prof. Hu Shanlian
School of Public Health, Fudan University, China
Prof. Jack Sim
Founder, World Toilet Organisation, Singapore
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Dr. Janet Robinson
Director of Laboratory Sciences and Director of Research for the Asia Pacific Region, FHI 360, Thailand
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Dr. Janey Messina
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Jeremy Farrar
Professor of Tropical Medicine, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Singapore
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Prof. John Eu-Li Wong
President, World Health Summit 2013, Co-chairman, WHSRMA 2013 Organizing Committee, Vice Provost (Academic Medicine), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mr. John Forsyth
Managing Director Viva Healthcare, Richard Chandler Corporation, Singapore
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Assoc. Prof. John Lim
Chief Executive Officer, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore
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Prof. John McNeil
Head of Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Head of School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Dr. Kaosar Afsana
Director, BRAC Health Programme, Bangladesh
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Ms. Karen Mok
Roll Back Malaria Partnership Champion, Hong Kong
Dr. Kelvin Bryan Tan
Director, Policy Research and Economics Office, Ministry of Health, Singapore
Prof. Kenji Shibuya
Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Dr. Kenneth E. Nollet
Fukushima Medical University, Japan
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Prof. Kishore Mahbubani
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Prof. Dr. Klaus Leisinger
Chairman, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Novartis International AG, Switzerland
Dr. Ko Wing-Man
Secretary for Food and Health, Hong Kong
Dr. Kozo Matsubayashi
Kyoto University School of Medicine and Public Health, Japan
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Dr. Lee Chien Earn
Chief Executive Officer, Changi General Hospital, Singapore
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Dr. Lim Mong Hoo
Chief Specialist (Water Quality), PUB Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Lim Pak Leong
Chairman, IgGENE, Fo Tan, Hong Kong
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Prof. Lim Yee Wei
Vice Dean (Research), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Ling Su
President, Drug Information Association (DIA), Senior Advisor to Sidley Austin, China
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Prof. Datuk Looi Lai-Meng
Distinguished Professor, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Building, University of Malaya, Malaysia
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Mr. Malcolm Lowe-Lauri
Global Centre of Excellence in Healthcare, KPMG, UK
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Mr. Malvinder Singh
Executive Chairman, Fortis Healthcare Limited, India
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Dr. Manuel Dayrit
Dean, Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
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Dr. Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao
Director of Resource Mobilisation, GAVI Alliance, Switzerland
Mark Devadason
Group Head, Sustainability & Regions Corporate Affairs, Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong
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Mr. Martin W. Bloem
Chief, HIV/AIDS and Nutrition, United Nations World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
Mr. Matthew Tiedemann
Chief of Party, Shaeo Thot Project, PACT Myanmar, Myanmar
Prof. Melvyn Sim
Department of Decision Sciences, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Mei-Lin Fung
Chairman, Institute for Service Organization Excellence, Board Member NUS America Foundation, USA
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Mr. Michael Schreiber
Executive Director, GBCHealth, USA
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Dr. Nelson Sewankombo
Principal College of Health Sciences, Makere University, Uganda
Dr. Osamu Nagayama
Chief Executive Officer, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan
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Prof. Parminder Raina
Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Optimal Aging, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, MacMaster University, Canada
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Dr. Pascal Zurn
Health Economist, World Health Organization, Switzerland
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Prof. Paul Grundy
IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation President, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Adjunct Professor University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, IBM, USA
Prof. Pe Thet Khin
Minister of Health, Myanmar
Prof. Sir Peter Gluckman
New Zealand Chief Science Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister, New Zealand
Prof. Peter Ng
Director of Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research & Tropical Marine Science Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Philippe Guibert
Regional Medical Director, Consulting Services for South & Southeast Asia, International SOS, Singapore
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Prof. Phillip Phan
Executive Vice-Dean, The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
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Prof. Prasada Rao Jonnalagadda
Former Secretary Health of India, Former Regional Director for Asia of UNAIDS, Special Envoy for Aids in Asia and the Pacific of the UN Secretary-General, India
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Prof. Ranga Krishnan
Dean, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Prof. Ratna Sitompul
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
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Ms. Regina Moench-Pfanner
Director, Singapore, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Singapore
Prof. Rifat Atun
Professor of International Health Management, Head of Health Management Group, Imperial College London, UK
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Prof. Robert Burton
Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia
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Mr. Robert Filipp
President, Innovative Finance Foundation, Switzerland
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A/Prof. Rob van Dam
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Saw See Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Prof. Rosanna Peeling
Professor and Chair of Diagnostics Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
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Prof. Sabahattin Aydin
Ex Deputy Minister of Health, Rector Medipol University Istanbul, Turkey
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Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi
Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India
Dr. Sanjay Sarin
Regional Director, Global Health / Central & South Asia Pacific, Becton Dickinson & Co, India
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Dr. Shahnaz Murad
Director, Institute for Medical Research, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Shimizu Yoshihisa
Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University, School of Engineering, Japan
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Dr. Shin Young-Soo
Regional Director (Western Pacific), World Health Organization, Philippines
Prof. Shunichi Fukuhara
Deputy-Dean, Kyoto University School of Public Health at Graduate School of Medicine, Vice President, Fukushima Medical University, Japan
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Dr. Sripen Tantivess
Senior Researcher, Health Intervention & Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Thailand
Mr. Stephan Tanda
Member, Managing Board Royal DSM, Singapore
Prof. Stephen K. Smith
Vice President (Research), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Dr. Stephen Lim
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, USA
Ms. Susan Horton
Associate Provost, Graduate Studies and CIGI Chair in Global Health Economics, Canada
Dr. Tan See Leng
Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Parkway Pantai Ltd., Singapore
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Prof. Tatsuya Kondo
Chief Executive, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency, Japan
Mr. Thomas Chandy
Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children, India
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Dr. Thomas Teuscher
Coordinator, Policy, Strategy and Governance, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Switzerland
Prof. Tommy Koh
Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies, Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Prof. Tikki Pang
Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Mr. Trihadi Saptoadi
Regional Leader, South Asia & Pacific, World Vision International, Singapore
Mr. Vincent Chan
General Manager ASEAN, Philips Healthcare
Mr. Vladimir Makatsaria
Chairman, Johnson & Johnson Medical Asia Pacific, Singapore
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Prof. Wang Linfa
Director of the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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Prof. William Haseltine
President, ACCESS Health International, USA
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Dr. Yan Chow
Director, Innovation and Advanced Technology, Digital Health Technology and Strategic Initiatives, Kaiser Permanente Information Technology, USA
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Prof. Yongyuth Yuthavong
Senior Researcher, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand
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Dr. Yoshihisa Shimizu
School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan |
[Please check back regularly as new speakers and speaker information will be added as they are confirmed.]
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Mr. Gan Kim Yong, Minister for Health, Singapore
From Mr. Gan Kim Yong, Minister for Health, Singapore:
"With Asia becoming one of the major global economic engines for the next decade, the varied challenges such as growth in population, wealth creation, urbanization, aging issues and growing prevalence of chronic diseases will also be bringing unprecedented challenges for health care in the region. The issues are daunting but not insurmountable. Health care leaders will be coming together in Singapore at this regional meeting to move research and knowledge to policy and implementation in Asia and beyond. We welcome you to join us in Singapore to share about building 'Health for Sustainable Development in Asia'." First World Health Summit Regional Meeting – Asia 2013 opens in Singapore today.
Today, Singapore hosts for the first time key opinion leaders from academia, politics, industry, civil society and media as they convene for the World Health Summit, RegionalMeeting –Asia (WHSRMA). Read here the opening press release.
Final Program now online
The final program is now available for the World Health Summit Regional Meeting - Asia, Singapore 2013, and can be downloaded here. A printed brochure of the final program will be available onsite at the meeting.
Abstract Booklet is out now
The Abstract Booklet of the World Health Summit Regional Meeting - Asia, Singapore 2013 is now available online. Please click here to download the booklet.
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