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Dr. Tom Frieden
President & CEO, Resolve to Save Lives
Dr. Tom Frieden is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology. He is former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. Tom is currently President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a not-for-profit organization that works with countries to prevent 100 million deaths and to make the world safer from epidemics. During the Covid pandemic, Tom has overseen an expansion of Resolve to Save Lives activities including policy and program innovations in the United States, counsel to multilateral institutions, and support for rapid response, health care worker safety, and data-driven decision-making in more than 20 countries. Tom is also Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Precious Matsotso
Former Director-General, South African National Department of Health
Precious Matsoso is the 2022 Epidemics That Didn't Happen Keynote Speaker and the former Director-General of the South African National Department of Health. She has previously worked with the World Health Organization and the United Nations, and served as member and co-chair on numerous advisory boards and panels. She is currently the Director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium, and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the Co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for the development of a legal instrument, convention, or treaty.
Amanda McClelland
Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics, Resolve to Save Lives
As Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives, Amanda leads a global team working to accelerate progress to make the world safer from the next epidemic while also responding to COVID-19. A notable expert in international public health management, Amanda previously served as Global Emergency Health Advisor for the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent as well as coordinated frontline response during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, for which she received the 2015 Florence Nightingale Medal for exceptional courage. Amanda earned her Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and her Bachelor of Nursing from Queensland University of Technology.
Márcio Garcia
Health Surveillance Superintendent, Rio de Janeiro Municipal Health Secretariat
Márcio Garcia is a Veterinarian and Epidemiologist. He holds degrees from the Ceará State University, the Federal University of Ceará, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has previously worked for the Municipal Health Department of Rio de Janeiro, at the Health Department of the State of Ceará and at the Ministry of Health and is currently the Superintendent of Health Surveillance at the Municipal Health Department of Rio de Janeiro. He has national and international experience in epidemiology applied to health services, public health, outbreak investigation, preparedness and response to emergencies in public health, and management of health systems.
Dwi Handayani
Senior Health Officer, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Dwi Handayani is a public health professional with more than 15 years’ work experience. She was previously an officer at the District Health Office in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia and recently worked as a coordinator for health and the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) program at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Country Cluster Delegation for Indonesia and Timor Leste. In her current position, she manages emergency health in disaster management, scaling up public health initiatives into multi-hazard preparedness and response efforts. Her key experiences are in program design, management and implementation including knowledge management in public health programs, epidemiology and community-based health.
Dalia Samhouri
Regional Manager, Emergency Preparedness and International Health Regulations Health Emergency Programm, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Dr. Dalia Samhouri is a regionally and globally known expert of public health. Dalia has worked with WHO for 17 years and is currently the lead of the Health Emergency Preparedness and International Health Regulations at the Cairo-based WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO). Since joining WHO, Dalia has led extensive and repeated missions to the 22 countries of the region to assess and strengthen surveillance, risk assessment and response to Influenza, MERS-CoV, Ebola, Zika, COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. Dalia has a PhD degree in Global Health from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and a master’s degree of Public Health Epidemiology/Biostatistics from Tulane University in the United States.
Erin Banco (Moderator)
Global Health Correspondent, Politico
Erin Banco is a global health correspondent for Politico, where she focuses on accountability journalism on Covid-19, emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness. Before that, Banco covered the CDC for Politico. Prior to joining Politico, Banco worked at the Daily Beast as a national security reporter, covering the intelligence community, foreign policy and various congressional investigations into President Trump and his allies. Earlier, she was a Middle East correspondent for the International Business Times (now Newsweek Media Group) and a freelancer covering the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.