Saving a life anywhere in the world

Faculty and Fellows of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Faculty of Arts & Sciences along with leaders from government, private sector,  and academia, are convening a special forum to explore how technology can be used to save a life anywhere in the world.

The Global Health Transformation Forum at Harvard Faculty Club promises to be a day of vigorous intellectual exchange with some of the nation’s most brilliant and ambitious healthcare minds.This event connecting  entrepreneurship, social innovation and global health equity will be held at the Harvard Faculty Club, Loeb House on October 26th.

Speakers and Panelists

Keynote Speaker

Dr. John Mattison

Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente

Government

Ambassador Robert C. Perry

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of State

Dr. Bernice Dahn

Minister of Health, Liberia

Dr. Brahima Kaba

Ambassador to Saudia Arabia and the Middle East, Liberia

Private Sector Entrepreneurs

Panha Chheng

CEO, Medyear

Drew Schiller

CEO, Validic

Renata Bushko

Founder, Future of Health Institute

Dr. Dana Buchbut

Council Member, Gerson Lehrman Group

Dr. Joseph Sliwkowski

President, GIVE, Inc.

Medicine and Research

Dr. Nir Eyal

Associate Professor, Harvard University

Dr. Andrew Ellner

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Esteban Gershanik

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Leandro Grimaldi Bournissaint

Director GIVE mHealth Program

Dr. Alex Ding

Board Member, California Medical Association

Dr. Tomas Barrientos Fortes

Director, Universidad Anahuac School of Medicine

Dr. Carlos Gonzalez Quesada

Fellow, Harvard Medical School/UCLA

Reginald Mbauwike

Fellow, Harvard University

Forum Schedule

[7:30am] Registration

[8:15am] Welcome and Keynote

[8:45am] Instruments of Access

[10am] Liberia in Crisis

[11:30am] mHealth in Coordinated Care

[12:30am] Luncheon

[2:00pm] Technology Panel

[3:30pm] Medicine Panel

[4:15pm] Digitizing Healthcare in Developing Regions