Sessions in detail

Monday, November 16th

Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Swiss Confederation
Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Government of India
Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General World Health Organisation (WHO)
Bertrand Levrat, General Director, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG)
Antoine Geissbuhler, Co-President of Geneva Health Forum, Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva, University of Geneva
Nicole Rosset, Co-President of Geneva Health Forum, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG)
Alexandra Calmy, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, UNIGE
Piyush Singh, Counsellor, Embassy of India, Berne

Howard Catton, Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN)
Elisabeth Iro, Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
Roswitha Koch Heepen, Board member, International Council of Nurses (ICN)
Soosmita Sinha, Founder and President, Health Law Institute

Kwasi Boahene, Director of Advocacy and Director of West Africa at the PharmAccess Group
Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director; co-Founder, Women in Global Health
Kanishka Katara, Head Digital Health (India), PATH
Derrick Muneene, Head of Capacity Building and Collaboration, World Health Organization
Lucy Setian, Associate Director HealthTech Innovation, Novartis Foundation

Kelly Chibale, Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, University of Capetown
Natalie Mrak, Global Health Strategy & Partnerships Lead, Merck
Benjamin Perry, Discovery Open Innovation Leader, DNDi
Charles Randolph, Head, Global Health, WIPO
Thomas Spangenberg, Head, Global Health Drug Discovery, Merck

Christine Choirat , Chief Health Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center EPFL
Manuela Cirilli , Leader Medical Applications in Knowledge Transfer Group, CERN
Sana De Courcelles , Attachee Sante, Permanent Mission of France to the UN in Geneva
Philippe Duneton, Executive Director UNITAID
Antoine Flahault , Director if Institute of Global Health
Emma Hannay , Director of Access & Lead, ACT-A Diagnostics Pillar at FIND
Françoise Vanni , Director, External Relations and Communications, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Karen Alparce-Villanueva, Board Member, Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations (PAPO)
Bisi Bright, CEO and Founder, LiveWell Initiative (LWI)
Angela Grezet, Association Savoir Patient
Neda Milevska Kostova, Board Vice Chair, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO)

Thomas Cueni, Director General, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)
Robert Mardini, Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Priti Patnaik, Editor, Geneva Health Files