4th Rhodes Healthcare Forum

In 2019, our theme is “From Surviving to Thriving”. We rightly celebrate our remarkable progress to reduce death and disease worldwide. Our focus must now shift to goals beyond just reducing mortality, to create a future where everyone can enjoy thriving health. We must pursue wellbeing, prevent disease, reduce inequality and seek justice for all. We will discuss opportunities and approaches in technology, epidemiology, public health, drug discovery, biomedicine and policy to promote global thriving
health.

We have invited experts and innovators in to bring depth to these discussions. Scholars will be encouraged to apply the ideas generated over the weekend in initiatives spanning their time at Oxford and beyond.

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Programme Highlights

Mentoring:

This year’s forum will once again be running mentorship sessions. These sessions will allow Scholars the opportunity to ask for advice, discuss career paths or exchange ideas with Alumni, Forum speakers and other participants.

View the mentors.

We have 28 Mentors on Saturday and 26 Mentors on Sunday. Each Mentor will be providing two slots per day:

Saturday: 5:55pm-6:15pm and 6:20pm-6:40pm

Sunday: 9:30am-9:55am and 10:00-10:25am

If you would like to be mentored, please sign up by entering your information onto the google sheet here by GMT 9:00am on Friday 8th February. This is when the google sheet will no longer be available to edit.

If you have an allocated slot in 1 or 2 - please make a note of your time slot and ensure you are punctual. The exact location within Rhodes House will be released during the weekend. If you are on the waiting list, we will update you at the event if a place becomes available.

Programme Details

9 & 10 February 2019

Rhodes Healthcare Forum

Saturday 9 February Session information and format

9:00am Light breakfast
Registration
10:00am Welcome address
Title: Illness is universal, healthcare isn’t
Speaker: Sir John Bell
10:30am Keynote 1
Title: Affording Universal Health Coverage
Speaker: Dr. Mark Britnell
11:15am Group Photo/On-the-go Coffee
11:35am Keynote 2
Title: Optimising leadership and organisation in healthcare: Restructuring health systems to ensure universal coverage
Speaker: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
12:15pm Lunch Break
1:45pm Panel Discussion 1
Title: Overcoming inequities in low- and middle-income countries
Speakers:
1. Dr. Tracey Naledi
2. Dr. Jamila Headley
Moderator: Dr. Peter Drobac
2:45pm Breakout Sessions 1
3:45pm Coffee Break
4:15pm Keynote 3
Title: The fate of mental healthcare under universal coverage
Speaker: Prof. Vikram Patel
5:00pm Breakout Sessions 2
6:00pm Mentorship Session 1
6:50pm Drinks Reception
7:30pm Dinner Speech
Speaker: Emily Serazin
8:00pm Dinner
10:00pm Social at King’s Arms (optional)

Sunday 10 February Session information and format

8:30am Coffee & light breakfast
9:30am Mentorship session 2
10:30am Keynote 4: The role of academia in promoting health for all
Speaker: Sir Jeremy Farrar
11:35am Panel Discussion 4
Title: Indigenous Health in New Zealand, Australia and Canada
Speakers:
1. Dr. Chelsea Bond
2. Dr. Nadine Caron
3. Dr. Roxanne Bainbridge (Atlantic fellow)
4. Dr. Hinemoa Elder
Moderator: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
12:35pm Lunch Break
2:00pm Ted-style Talks on Innovation (10 minute talks)
1. Title: Translating biomedical innovation into patient therapies
Speaker: Dr. Fred Cohen
2. Title: Utilising mobile-health technology to improve mental health coverage in rural settings
Speaker: Dr. Tom Insel
3. Title: China Kadoorie Biobank - Using population health epidemiology to inform drug development in China
Speaker: Prof. Zhengming Chen
3:00pm Closing Remarks
● Dr Elizabeth Kiss
● Rhodes Healthcare Forum Committee

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Convened by

Prof Sir John Bell GBE, FRS (Alberta & Magdalen 1975)
Trustee, The Rhodes Trust; Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford

Confirmed speakers include

Dr Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983)
CEO & Warden of the Rhodes Trust
Roxanne Bainbridge
Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity
Nathalie Bennett
CEO of Gypsylife
Richard Bennett
CEO Gypsylife
Agnes Binagwaho
Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chelsea Bond
Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland
Mark Britnell
Chairman and Senior Global Partner, Global Health for KPMG
Dr Nadine Caron
General and Endocrine surgeon, Associate Professor at University of British Columbia's Northern Medical Program, University of British Columbia's Co-Director Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health, and an Associate Faculty member at Johns Hopkins Centre for American Indian Health
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 (Florida and Wolfson 1978)
Senior Managing Director, Vida Ventures
Professor Pamela Collins
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and of Global Health at the University of Washington
Paul Dagum
Founder & CEO, Mindstrong Health
Peter Drobac
Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford Saïd Business School
Dr. Hinemoa Elder
Psychiatrist and Professor of Indigenous Health Research at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan and Oriel 2009)
Former executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit
Sir Jeremy Farrar
Director, Wellcome Trust; Previous Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford
Julian Harris (Georgia & Balliol 2000)
President at CareAllies, A CIGNA Company
Dr Jamila Headley (Commonwealth Caribbean & Exeter 2007)
Managing Director, Health Global Access Project (or Health GAP)
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
Director, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, LSHTM
Tharani Loganathan
Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity South East Asia
Dr Tracey Naledi
Chief Director of Health Programmes in the Western Cape Department of Health
Vikram Patel (India & Worcester 1987)
Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School
Emily Serazin (West Virginia & New College 2004)
Partner & Managing Director, BCG
Sarah Sweeney
Communications & Health Policy Co-ordinator, Friends Families and Travellers
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Other information

• Parking - Rhodes House does not have visitor parking. We recommend using one of the convenient Park & Ride sites, public transport, or arriving by bicycle or foot.

• Dress Code - Business casual for both days.

• Filming and Photography - Sessions throughout the weekend may be filmed or photographed. Please contact conferences@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk if you do not wish to be filmed or photographed.

• Get involved - Join the conversation on social media #RhodesHealth19.

• Dietary & special requests - If you have not yet communicated any special requests, please do so before Friday 1st February via the conferences e-mail address above.