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Conference Chair
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Jaime Sepulveda, MD, MPH, DrSc, MSc
Director, Integrated Health Solutions Development
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Jaime Sepulveda directs the foundation’s Integrated Health Solutions Development program, overseeing grants to develop new tools and strategies for maternal, newborn, child, and reproductive health; vaccine-preventable diseases; and nutrition. Dr. Sepulveda served for more than 20 years in a variety of senior health posts in the Mexican government, including as director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico (2003-2006) and as director-general of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and dean of the National School of Public Health. In addition to his research credentials, Sepulveda is an experienced implementer of effective health programs. As Mexico’s director-general of epidemiology and later vice minister of health, Sepulveda designed Mexico’s Universal Vaccination Program, which eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria by more than doubling childhood immunization coverage in two years. He also designed a national health surveillance system and founded Mexico’s National AIDS Council. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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Honorary Co-Chairs
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Zafrullah Chowdhury, MBBS
Founder and Projects Coordinator
Gonoshasthaya Kendra (The People's Health Centre)
Bangladesh
Zafrullah Chowdhury is a pioneering doctor and public health leader from Bangladesh. He trained in general, orthopedic, and vascular surgery with various British hospitals, and studied to become a Fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1971, Dr. Chowdhury returned to his homeland to join in the war of liberation for Bangladesh. After the war ended in 1972, Dr. Chowdhury and colleagues established Gonoshasthaya Kendra (The People's Health Centre, or GK), which translated the wartime field hospital experiences into the development of a rural health-care delivery system. Over more than three decades, GK has established many path-breaking programs for delivering health care in a rural setting; women's training and empowerment; economic development and agricultural promotion. Dr. Chowdhury was awarded the Swedish Youth Peace Prize in 1974, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1985, and his nation's highest honor, the Independence Day Award, in 1997.
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Due to a death in the family, Dr. Chowdhury will be unable to attend our conference. The Global Health Council sends its condolences to Dr. Chowdhury and his family. We will greatly miss his passionate voice for and of the people.
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Miriam Were, MB ChB, MPH, DrPH
Chair, National AIDS Control Council, Kenya
Chair, African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF)
Co-founder, UZIMA Foundation
Professor Miriam Were is the chairperson of the National Aids Control Council in Kenya. Under her stewardship, the Council, in collaboration with other stakeholders, has begun to produce positive results in Kenya with infection rates declining. She is also the chair of the international board of directors of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), winners of the 2005 Gates Award for Global Health, and sits on the board of trustees of UZIMA Foundation, a charitable trust registered in Kenya and focusing on youth empowerment in the context of gender parity. Prof. Were started as a teacher in 1965 and later became a medical officer, lecturer, chief health and nutrition adviser, representative and chief of mission to the World Health Organization. She has won numerous awards for outstanding contributions to the health sector, including the Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear for her distinguished service rendered to the nation of Kenya in December 2005. Throughout her career, she has published technical papers, reports and books as well as one biography and four novels.
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The Council congratulates Prof. Were as the inaugural winner of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for Medical Services from the government of Japan. The very reason that Prof. Were was selected for the prize was the reason that she was selected to be the conference co-chair. We regret that Prof. Were will be unable to join us at the conference, as the prize is being bestowed at the same time. Her voice and experience will be deeply missed.
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