Mérieux Foundation event

Mérieux Foundation 50th anniversary

September 14, 2017 - Les Pensières Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)

Summary

Mérieux Foundation 50th anniversary

The Mérieux Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary! More than 150 scientists, researchers, doctors, biologists, humanitarian actors and representatives of international organizations gathered at Les Pensières Center for Global Health on September 14th to share their experiences and discuss major public health issues during three round tables:

  • The Epidemic Risks in Developing Countries;
  • New Dynamics in Health Capacity Building: Leveraging Local Resources;
  • The global health approach: bringing vulnerable populations more than medical care.

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Program

Day 1 September 14, 2017

  • Round table: The epidemic risks in developing countries

    Chaired by Professor Christian BRÉCHOT, President of Institut Pasteur (France)

    • Prof. Rosanna PEELING, Professor and Chair of Diagnostics Research and Director of the International Diagnostics Centre (IDC) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK)
    • Dr. Xavier CRESPIN, Director General of the West African Health Organisation (Burkina Faso)
    • Prof. Xuetao CAO, President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (China)
    • Michèle BOCCOZ, Ambassador for the fight against HIV-AIDS and communicable diseases and the international dimension of Health Research (France)
    • Prof. David HEYMANN, professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House (UK)
    • SEM Dr. Bounkong SIHAVONG, Minister of Health of Lao PDR (via duplex)
  • Round table: New dynamics in health capacity building: leveraging local resources

    Chaired by Professor Ogobara DOUMBO, Director of the Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bamako (Mali)

    • Dr. Firdausi QADRI, Acting Senior Director, Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, icddr,b and Executive Director, Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (ideSHi) and winner of the 2012 Christophe Mérieux Prize (Bangladesh)
    • Prof. Jean SAKANDÉ, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Ouagadougou; Medical Biologist, Head of the laboratory of medical biochemistry of the University Hospital Yalgado Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso)
    • Dr. Abdoul Habib BÉAVOGUI, Director, Mafèrinyah National Rural Health Research and Training Centre (Guinea)
    • Dr. Myron LEVINE, Professor and Associate Dean for Global Health, Vaccinology and Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School of Medicine (USA)
    • Dr. Christophe PAQUET, Director, Health and Social Protection Division, AFD (France)
    • Prof. Salim DACCACHE, Rector of Saint Joseph University (Lebanon) (via duplex)
  • Round table: The global health approach: bringing vulnerable populations more than medical care

    Chaired by Dr. Jean William PAPE, Founder and Director of the GHESKIO Centers (Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) (Haiti)

    • Dr. Kamel MOHANNE, Founder and Director, Amel association (Lebanon)
    • Runa KHAN, Founder & Executive Director of the international NGO, Friendship (Bangladesh)
    • Dr. Serge BREYESSE, Director, Action Against Hunger (France)
    • Dr. Warren JOHNSON, B.H. Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medical College (USA)
    • Prof. Souleymane DIALLO, Director of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease of Mali (via duplex)

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