Speakers & Panelists

Panelists and speakers continue to be added to the roster for the CUGH 2010 Annual Meeting. Please check back often as this page will be updated regularly and is subject to change.

Confirmed Plenary Session Speakers and Panelists include:
last updated August 30, 2010

  • Harmonie Adams, Student, Global Health Sciences Masters, University of California, San Francisco
  • Richard Adanu, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ghana Medical School and School of Public Health
  • Kelly Anderson, Family Medicine Resident, University of Toronto
  • Mary Bassett, Director of the African Health Initiative, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  • Anne Bax, Administrative Director, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
  • Wallis Best-Plummer, Director, International Training and Education Center for Health, Guyana
  • James Blanchard, Director, Center for Global Public Health, Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and Canada Research Chair, Epidemiology and Global Public Health
  • Magaly Blas, Associate Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
  • Gerald Bloomfield, Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University
  • Michael Brauer, Professor, School of Environmental Health, The University of British Columbia
  • Timothy Brewer, Director, Global Health Programs and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
  • Dan Bryant, Safety Officer, PATH
  • Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board of Cambridge, MA
  • Meena Nathan Cherian, Secretariat, Global Initiative for Emergency, World Health Organization
  • Randall Chestnut, Integra Endowed Professor of Neurotrauma, Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
  • Madhavi Dandu, Assistant Professor, Hospitalist Division, University of California, San Francisco
  • Nils Daulaire, Director, Office of Global Health Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Jenna Davis, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
  • Kevin DeCock, Director, Center for Global Health, CDC
  • Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
  • Ann Downer, Director, International Training and Education Center on Health (I-TECH), University of Washington
  • Kristie Ebi, Executive Director, Technical Support Unit, Carnegie Institution for Science
  • Wafaa El-Sadr, Director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs and Director of the Global Health Initiative at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  • Mark Emmert, President, University of Washington
  • Drew Endy, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
  • Michael English, Senior Research Fellow, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
  • Madelon Finkel, Professor, Clinical Public Health and Director of the Office of Global Health, Cornell University
  • Howard Frumkin, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington
  • Donna Gallagher, Principal Investigator/Director, New England AIDS Education and Training Center, Center for Health Policy and Research and Instructor, Division of Family Practice, Graduate School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Worcester
  • Hector Hugo Garcia, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
  • Nancy Glass, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health and Associate Professor, Department of Community-Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
  • Roger Glass, Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health
  • Lawrence Gostin, Professor, Global Health Law, Georgetown University
  • Andrew Haines, Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Douglas Heimburger, Associate Director, Education and Training, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Professor, Medicine, Vanderbilt University
  • Thomas Hinckley, Interim Director, School of Forest Resources and Professor of Forestry, University of Washington
  • Joseph Hughes, Chair and Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Michael Johnson, Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health
  • Flora Katz, Program Officer, Division of International Training and Research, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
  • Rudovic Kazwala, Professor, Sokoine Univeristy of Agriculture, Tanzania
  • James Kiarie, Affiliate Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Global Health, University of Washington; Chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kenyatta National Hospital Sebior Lecturer, College of Health Sciences University of Nairobi
  • Sam Kinyanjui, Researcher and Training Coordinator, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
  • Richard Kipling, Managing Editor, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
  • Catherine Klapperich, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
  • Joseph Kolars, Senior Associate Dean of Education and Global Initiatives, University of Michigan
  • Peter Lamptey, President, Public Health Programs, Family Health International
  • David Lalloo, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
  • Thomas La Salvia, Executive Director, Harvard Institute for Global Health
  • Kelley Lee, Reader in Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Mary Lee, Associate Provost and Chair, Global Health Council, Tufts University
  • William Maema, Partner, Iseme, Kamau & Maema Advocates, Kenya
  • Victoria Márquez-Mees, Director of Social Investment, Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud, Mexico
  • Keith Martin, Member, Parliament, Esquimalt – Juan de Fuca, Canada
  • Rashad Massoud, Director, Health Care Improvement Project, U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Peter May, Vice President, Administration and Legal Affairs, World Learning
  • Jonna Mazet, Co-Director, Wildlife Health Center, University of California, Davis
  • Charles Mock, Medical Officer, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization and Professor, University of Washington
  • J. Stephen Morrison, Director of the Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic & International Studies
  • Fitzhugh Mullan, Head Professor, Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington School of Public Health
  • Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
  • Venkat Narayan, Professor, Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory University
  • William Nicholson, Assistant Attorney General, University of Washington
  • John J. Norcini, President and Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research
  • Glenn Nordehn, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus
  • Esteban Chaves Olarte, Associate professor, University of Costa Rica
  • Jean Pape, Director GHESKIO (Groupe Haitien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes), Haiti
  • Tom Paulson, Global Health and Development Blogger, National Public Radio, Seattle
  • David Peters, Associate Professor and Director, Health Systems Programs, Johns Hopkins University
  • Krista Pfaendler, Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident, University of Cincinnati
  • Peter Piot, Director, Global Health Institute and Professor, Imperial College London and former Under Secretary-General, United Nations
  • Tom Quinn, Director, Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University
  • Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, India
  • Kate Riley, Project Manager, Global Support Project, University of Washington
  • Jonathan Samet, Director, Institute for Global Health and Chair, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
  • Jaime Sepulveda, Director, Special Initiatives in Global Health, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Nelson Sewankambo, Dean and Professor of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda
  • Kenneth Sherr, Assistant Professor, Global Health, University of Washington
  • Joanne Silberner, Correspondent, Health Policy, National Public Radio
  • Jim Simon, Assistant Managing Editor, The Seattle Times
  • Michael Slatnik, Family Medicine Resident, The University of British Columbia
  • Val Snewin, International Activities Manager, The Wellcome Trust
  • David Stern, Professor, Medicine and Medical Education and Vice Chair, Professionalism, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • Ezra Susser, Professor, Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  • Joshua Tewksbury, Professor, Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Washington
  • Phyllis Wise, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Washington
  • Derek Yach, Director, Global Health Policy, PepsiCo and Professor, Global Health, Yale School of Public Health
  • Paul Yager, Chair, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
  • Tachi Yamada, President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation