Triangle Global Health Consortium
2021 Virtual Annual Conference

Early Bird Registration Deadline is Extended to October 15th!
Date:
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Conference Theme:
Reframing Global Health in a Changing World

How does the global health sector evolve to continue to deliver impact in a changing world? The TGHC 2021 conference is taking place after a year in which we experienced, and continue to experience, unprecedented health and social challenges. Whilst the impact of these challenges has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, many are deep-rooted, structural inequities that have existed for years. The pandemic has also drawn attention to the interconnectedness of our health systems and the critical importance of global public health.

The conference will explore innovative and adaptive approaches that have emerged in response to these inequities and challenges. How can we leverage the lessons learned throughout the pandemic, to prevent and better prepare for future pandemics, and tackle ongoing critical health needs and inequities? How can we reframe our global health guidelines, practices and policies in a changing world?
Announcing - 2021 Annual Conference Speaker Updates

Keynote Speakers to Include:

Dr. Roopa Dhatt
Dr. Roopa Dhatt is an advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. She is also a practicing Internal Medicine physician. Dr. Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard. Determined to build a movement to transform women’s leadership opportunities in health, Dr. Dhatt co-founded Women in Global Health in 2015. Today, Women in Global Health has more than 25,000 supporters in more than 90 countries and continues to grow.

Emilie Koum Besson, MSc
Emilie Koum Besson is a research fellow in Humanitarian Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently working on excess mortality estimation in conflict-affected states with a focus on Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is a scholar activist who has written from her perspective as a Francophone African public health researcher on power, privilege and racism in global health including a recent publication in the Lancet on 'Confronting Whiteness and Decolonizing Global Health Institutions'.
Main Session Panel:
Dr. Heidi Larson, Dr. Kenneth Y. Hartigan-Go, Dr. Raji Tajudeen
Dr. Heidi Larson is a professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr. Larson will be moderating the conference main session panel on vaccine misinformation and implications for global pandemics.

Dr. Kenneth Y. Hartigan-Go has more than 25 years of experience as a clinician, professor, and manager of health programs. He holds Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Hartigan-Go served as the Undersecretary of the Philippine Department of Health, was the Director General for the Philippine Food and Drugs Administration, and Manager of the Philippine National Drug Policy Program. Dr. Hartigan-Go is currently a member of the WHO Advisory Committee on the Safety of Medicinal Products, and an Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of Management.
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Dr. Raji Tajudeen is a medical doctor with postgraduate qualifications in Pediatrics and Public Health. He is currently the Head of Public Health Institutes and Research of Africa Centers for the Africa CDC. Dr. Tajudeen coordinates the establishment and strengthening of National Public Health Institutes across the 55 African Union Member States. He also oversees the establishment of the five Africa CDC Regional Collaborating Centers and coordinates the Africa CDC Institute for Workforce Development and oversees the continental public health research agenda. Dr. Tajudeen heads the healthcare preparedness and countermeasures section of the Africa CDC COVID-19 response.
Fireside Chats to Include:

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir & Dr. Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir is a Product Policy Manager at Facebook, an Adjunct Faculty for Information Policy at Syracuse University, and the previous Inaugural Senior Strategist for Racial Justice at the ACLU of New York.

Dr. Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola is the Director of the Stellenbosch University Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management.

Abdul-Qadir and Dr. Dubula-Majola's fireside chat will be titled "Drawing Lessons Learned from Social Justice Movements to Inform our Public Health Work Globally and Locally".
Dr. Anu Kumar and Melissa Velarde, MPH
Dr. Anu Kumar is the President and CEO of Ipas. Dr. Kumar's fireside chat will feature Marissa Velarde, a doctoral student at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Their fireside chat will focus on reproductive justice in a local and global context and will be titled "Reproductive justice in a local and global context: Why it matters now more than ever”.
Breakout Panels to Include: 
  • Impact of Legal Agreements, Non-Transparency, and Power Dynamics on Equitable Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
  • The role of advocacy in addressing health inequities
  • Deploying telehealth solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic: The FHI 360 experience in Africa and Asia
  • Human Rights Advocacy in an Evolving Global Health Landscape
  • Adapting global public health research and implementation during COVID
  • Changing frameworks of global health practice for marginalized populations to address inequities in HIV testing and care in Vietnam and Thailand
  • Empowering regional economic communities with legal frameworks for health data governance and protection to foster data sharing and the culture of using data for policy and practices
  • From Security to Solidarity
  • Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitation and the Christian Community Responsibility
  • Barriers and Facilitators in Patient-Centered Care Globally During the Time of COVID-19
Workshops to Include:
  • Building Equitable Partnerships in Global Health Research: Best Practices from Efforts to Decolonize Global Health in Zambia
  • Mobile Phone Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Design and Implementation

Along with 4 story-telling sessions, 38 posters, and more! 
Are you interested in being a sponsor at this year’s conference? Click here to learn more about sponsorship opportunities!
Spotlight Event with Global Health Council, hosted by the Regional Global Health Alliances

Join Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, the new President and CEO of Global Health Council, on October 19th for a conversation and update on policy and funding issues on Capitol Hill, at UNGA, and following President Biden’s recent COVID Summit, where she joined leaders in committing to end the COVID-19 pandemic. She will give her observations from DC and answer questions on the political state of global health in this critical time.

The Global Health Council, the collective voice for the global health community, advocates in the U.S. and multilateral forums for sound, strong global health policies and resources to improve global health systems, security, equity, and access.

This policy briefing is hosted by the regional global health alliances: Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Georgia Global Health Alliance, Triangle Global Health Consortium, and Washington Global Health Alliance. All of the Alliances are reciprocal members of the Global Health Council.
Triangle Global Health Consortium
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