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Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Pages 143-158
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Ms. Allain joined JLABS after serving as Senior Director, Strategy & Operations, on the Global External Innovation team at Johnson & Johnson, where she drove global external portfolio management and reporting while leading cross-sector engagement, as well as supporting strategic business plan development.
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, he worked for the polio eradication initiative in India as a Surveillance Medical Officer with the National Polio Surveillance Project of the World Health Organization, and contributed to India's successful and historic polio elimination effort and measles surveillance initiatives. He worked as an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist at Rhode Island State Department of Health in the United States for 2 years before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2012.
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Chan School of Public Health. She has been working to understand and control infectious diseases among the world's most vulnerable populations -- in particular malaria -- since obtaining her D.Phil.
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eGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and serves on the D e ditorial boards of the Journal of Bacteriology, the Journal of Bio hemistry, c and the American Chemical Society's Infectious Diseases. She served as Chair (2010–2017)
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Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Exchange Officer to the United Kingdom, and Internal Medicine Chief of Residents at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. COL Hepburn completed internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship programs at Brooke Army Medical Center.
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in infectious diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, India.
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He is a pioneer in the application of behavioral economics to public policy in the Middle East and heads the first nudge unit in the Middle East, B4Development (formerly the Qatar Behavioral Insights Unit)
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His motivation to transform the lives of children emanates from a personal experience he had during one of the immunization drives in Nairobi, Kenya, where the majority of children in high mobile urban centers missed their vaccinations and subsequently discontinued their routine immunization schedules due to lack of proper identification, making it a nightmare for health care workers to track which children were falling through the immunization gaps. He created hanjoPlus C to solve this challenge and ensure that every child has access to lifesaving vaccines no matter where they live.
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, McMaster University's Chanchalani Award for Research Excellence in HIV 2012, and McGill University's Maude Abbott Award for Research Excellence 2013, among others. Her research has been supported by grants from the CIHR, the FRSQ Quebec, Grand Challenges Canada, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African Medical Research Council Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships, and South African Department of Science and Technology.
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barriers to the sharing of microbial and pathogen genetic data. This involves inter alia in-depth study on ownership barriers to the sharing of microbial genetic resources, performance of workshops with different organizations on the topic of global data sharing, research on the impact of the Nagoya Protocol on the sharing of genetic resources through biobanks and culture collections, research on barriers to the design and implementation of One Health initiatives, and finally research on innovation and product valorization in the field of infectious disease response and control.
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. In these projects she is performing research on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in a global decentralized collection of microorganisms addressing ethical, legal, and administrative challenges; and on the ethical, legal, and social implications of combining big data with traditional epidemiological and molecular data for enhancing infectious disease management, including through the performance of citizen-aided science.
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In 2015–2016, he was Chair of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine's Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, which published the influential report The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: A Framework to Counter Infectious Disease Threats in January 2016.
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His published works on global health include "The Neglected Dimension of Global Security -- A Framework for Countering Infectious-Disease Crises," in the New England Journal of Medicine, January 2016; "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Financing Pandemic Preparedness Through Domestic Resource Mobilization," Global Health & Diplomacy, April 2016; "Assessing Economic Vulnerability to Infectious Disease Outbreaks," The Lancet, May 2016; "Beyond the Ebola Battle -- Winning the War Against Future Epidemics," British Medical Journal, January 2017; and "From Panic and Neglect to Investing in Health Security: Financing Pandemic Preparedness at a National Level," World Bank, May 2017.
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Jonathan Towner, Ph.D., works in the Viral Special Pathogens Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Prior to Takeda, Dr. Venkayya served as the Director of Vaccine Delivery in the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was responsible for the Gates Foundation's efforts in polio eradication and new vaccine introduction, and a grant portfolio of $500 million per year.
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from the New York University College of Global Public Health and a B.S. with distinction in research from Cornell University.
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