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Confirmed Speakers

09 February 2019

4th Rhodes Healthcare Forum

Convenors

Speakers

  • Elizabeth Kiss

    Before taking up the Wardenship in 2018, Dr Elizabeth Kiss (pronounced ‘quiche’) served for twelve years as president of Agnes Scott College, Georgia. During her tenure, Agnes Scott broke records for enrolment and retention and was named the second ‘Most Diversified College in America’ by Time and the country’s most successful liberal arts college for graduating low-income students by the U.S. Department of Education. In December 2017, the Chronicle of Higher Education named Elizabeth Kiss on its 2017 list of the most influential people in U.S. higher education.

  • Roxanne Bainbridge

    Professor Roxanne Bainbridge is from the Gungarri and Kunja nations in South-Western Queensland, Australia. She is Director of the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research at Central Queensland University Cairns, Australia; and an inaugural Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity. Roxanne currently holds a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship. She works to strengthen researcher capacity and improve the integrity and quality of research to maximise its impact and benefit for Aboriginal and Torres Strait people. Roxanne’s methodological expertise is in high impact applied research conducted in participatory and action-oriented research approaches embedded in systems sciences. Her research is responsive to community need in health and health services, social and cultural determinants of health including education, psychosocial resilience/mental health and social inclusion. Roxanne has specific proficiencies in research impact assessment and evaluation; integrated quality improvement; grounded theory; evidence syntheses; microsimulation and auto/ethnographic approaches.

  • Nathalie Bennett

    Nathalie Bennett is an English Romany Gypsy and CEO of Gypsylife, an organisation that campaigns for equality for the Gypsy and Traveller community. Nathalie has dedicated her adult life to working and campaigning for equality for the GRT community.

  • Richard Bennett

    Richard Bennett is the CEO of Gypsylife

  • Agnes Binagwaho

    Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD worked 20 years in the public health sector in Rwanda and served in high-level government positions, such as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and during 5 years as the Minister of Health. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of the Practice of Global Health Delivery at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

  • Chelsea Bond

    Dr Bond's career has focused on interpreting and privileging Indigenous experiences of the health system including critically examining the role of Aboriginal health workers, the narratives of Indigeneity produced within public health, and advocating for strength-based community development approaches to Indigenous health promotion practice.

  • Mark Britnell

    As the Global Chairman & Senior Partner for Healthcare, Government & Infrastructure at KPMG International, Mark oversees revenues of $6 billion supporting 40,000 staff across 157 countries. He is one of the foremost global experts on healthcare systems and has a pioneering and inspiring global vision for health in both the developed and developing world. Mark has dedicated his entire professional life to healthcare and has led organisations at local, regional, national and global levels – provider and payer, public and private. Over the past nine years, he has worked in 77 countries on circa. 320 occasions, gaining a unique first-hand experience. After joining the UK’s NHS fast-track Management Training Scheme in 1989, he held some senior operational and government posts before being appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham in 2000. He masterminded the most significant new hospital build in NHS history, established the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and developed one of the highest performing healthcare organisations in the UK. He went on to run the NHS region from Oxford to the Isle of Wight before joining the NHS Management Board as a Director-General at the Department of Health, where he developed High-Quality Care for All with Lord Darzi. He joined KPMG as Global Chairman and Senior Partner for Health in 2009 and has established a successful worldwide health practice. He is a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector for the World Economic Forum and sits on the Advisory Board of the China Center for Health Development at Peking University. He is also an Honorary Professor at Taishan Medical University School, Shandong Province and holds honorary doctorates from Birmingham City University and the University of Wolverhampton. Mark is the author of "In Search of the Perfect Health System", published by Palgrave Macmillian. The book has sold in over 109 countries, including translations into Mandarin, Korean and Portuguese, and was recognised by Chinese Medical Doctors Association as best health book in China in 2017, and in the UK by the British Medical Association, 2016. Mark has been a Non-Executive Director at Dr Foster, a trustee of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and a Board member of Prostate Cancer UK. He survived prostate cancer at the age of 42 and had donated all royalties from the sale of this book to Prostate Cancer UK.

  • Dr Nadine Caron

    Nadine works as a general endocrine surgeon at Prince George Regional Hospital and she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and was appointed Co-Director of UBC's Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health in 2014. She received the 2016 Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and was rewarded for public health studies concerning Rural and First Nations populations. Nadine leads the Northern Biobank Project, which will improve patients' access to participate in personalized medicine research in northern British Columbia.

  • Zhengming Chen

    Zhengming Chen, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of China program; Lead principal investigator in the UK for the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB), University of Oxford

  • Fred Cohen

    Dr Cohen is a Senior Managing Director of Vida Ventures, a venture capital firm that he co-founded in 2017. He is also a Senior Advisor to TPG where he served as a Partner and founder of TPG Biotechnology, a life science-focused investment effort from 2001-2016. From 1980 through 2014, Dr Cohen was at UCSF where he held various responsibilities as a research scientist, an Internist for hospitalized patients, a consulting Endocrinologist, and as the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Dr Cohen was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

  • Professor Pamela Collins

    Pamela Collins is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and of Global Health at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle , where she directs the UW Global Mental Health Program. She is a psychiatrist with 25 years of experience in global public health and global mental health research, education, training and capacity-building, and science policy leadership. Prior to her current role she directed the Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (USA) where she led and contributed to numerous global initiatives on mental health. Her current research interests include social stigma, urban mental health, and the intersections of HIV and mental illness.

  • Paul Dagum

    Founder & CEO, Mindstrong Health

  • Peter Drobac

    A global health physician and social entrepreneur, Peter Drobac is the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford Saïd Business School. The Skoll Centre promotes social innovation by developing talent, harnessing actionable insight through research, and catalyzing deep exchanges with a global community of innovators. For over a decade Peter played a key role in the transformation of Rwanda’s health system, which has delivered unprecedented gains in population health and prosperity. Peter co-founded University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, which aspires to train the next generation of healthcare leaders and to become a worldwide hub for health care innovation.

  • Dr. Hinemoa Elder

    Dr. Hinemoa Elder is of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi descent. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and has been a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for more than 10 years. Dr. Elder is the Professor of Indigenous Health Research at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. She was a recipient of the Eru Pomare Post Doctoral Fellow, Health Research Council of New Zealand 2014-2018. Hinemoa is also the Māori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain. Dr. Elder is an advocate for use of Te Reo Māori, the Māori language. She works clinically in youth forensic, acute inpatient and neuropsychiatry.

  • Abdul El-Sayed

    Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. Abdul ran for Governor of Michigan in 2018 with endorsements from Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and The Nation. Prior, Abdul served as Health Commissioner in Detroit where he rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after it had been privatized during the City’s municipal bankruptcy. Appointed at 30 years old, he was the youngest health official in a major US City. Prior to his public service, Abdul was tenure-track faculty at Columbia University’s Department of Epidemiology, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Abdul holds a Doctorate in Public Health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, as well as a Medical degree from Columbia University. He graduated with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, where he was student commencement speaker alongside President Bill Clinton.

  • Sir Jeremy Farrar

    Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust, the world’s second largest global charitable foundation which is dedicated to improving health. Before joining Wellcome, Jeremy served for 18 years as Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, where his research in infectious diseases, tropical health and emerging infections exposed him to the SARS, bird flu and H1N1 flu outbreaks. In 2005, Jeremy became an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services in tropical medicine. He has contributed to 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, served on several World Health Organization advisory committees, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

  • Julian Harris

    Dr Julian Harris, President at CareAllies, A CIGNA Company (Georgia & Balliol 2000)

  • Dr Jamila Headley

    Dr Jamila Headley is a non-profit leader, activist, and researcher dedicated to building movements and organizations that fight for access to health care for poor and marginalized people around the world. She is currently the Managing Director of the Health Global Access Project (or Health GAP), where she is leading a team that works to ensure global access to affordable medicines for all people living with HIV. Jamila has a DPhil in Public Health and a Masters in Global Health from Oxford University, where she was a 2007 Caribbean Commonwealth Rhodes Scholar. Originally from Barbados, she is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Tom Insel

    Co-Founder & President, Mindstrong Health. Former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

  • Chris Karp

    Director, Gates Foundation Discovery & Translational Sciences Team

  • Hannah Kuper

    Prof Hannah Kuper's main research interest is disability in low and middle income countries, with a particular focus on: 1. Assessment of the prevalence of disability and impairments, including in children, and development of new methods in undertaking these surveys (e.g. use of mobile technologies). 2. Investigation of the health and rehabilitation needs of people with disabilities, and how these can be met in low resources settings. 3. Research on the relationship between poverty and disability, and the potential role of social protection in breaking this cycle.

  • Tharani Loganathan

    Tharani Loganathan is a Public Health Specialist with specialization in Health Economics, and a Medical Lecturer at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. She has 17 years working experience with the Ministry of Health, Malaysia in diverse areas, notably in Primary Health Care. She has a particular interest in Health Economics, Health Systems Research and Health Policy; towards advancing health system goals of achieving Universal Health Coverage. For her doctoral degree, Tharani conducted comprehensive economic evaluation of rotavirus vaccines beyond cost-effectiveness, to include benefits of vaccination in improving equity and financial risk protection to inform its inclusion into the national immunization program Malaysia. Currently, Tharani is investigating the gaps in policy protecting the health of migrants in Myanmar, China and Malaysia. Tharani is a 2017 Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia.

  • Dr Tracey Naledi

    Tracey Naledi is a Public Health Physician who has who has over the last 18 years held technical & management positions in Government and NGO sectors in South Africa and Botswana. She focusses on policy development & health system strengthening & particularly addressing health inequity. She is a past Board Member of Child Safe and the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA); current advisory Board Member of Perinatal Mental Health Project; current Chairperson of Tekano, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa and a newly elected member of the Council for Public Health Medicine of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. She holds the post of Chief Director: Health Programmes in the Western Cape Department of Health and is an honorary senior lecturer in the School of Public Health, UCT. Tracey is currently on study leave reading for the PhD in Adolescent Health and HIV. She is also Chairperson of Tekano, home of the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa programme.

  • Vikram Patel

    Vikram Patel is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. His work has focused on the burden of mental disorders, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment. He co-founded Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions and the WHO Public Health Champion of India award. He co-founded the Movement for Global Mental Health and is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. He was named in the TIME 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.

  • Emily Serazin

    Emily Serazin joined Boston Consulting Group in 2006. She has been based both in the Washington and Mumbai offices. Emily is a core member of BCG’s Health Care and Social Impact practices. Within health care, Emily’s focus is on vaccines and global health across the value chain. She also has expertise in digital health and in the formation and optimization of public-private partnerships.

  • Sarah Sweeney

    Communications & Health Policy Co-ordinator, Gypsy Travellers

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