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Priyanka is the Co-Founder and Host at The Vaccine Challenge - a podcast series where she uncovers the supply chain challenges present in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine -- the hardest problem in supply chain, ever. She started out her career at McKinsey & Co. where she was a...

Hala leads The Trinity Challenge as its first CEO.  She brings to the Challenge her passion and expertise to improve health outcomes by looking for social, business and economic innovation to solve some of the most complex global health issues. She led the Review on AMR chaired by Jim...

Jason drives government transformation through digital technology as Senior Director for Government Digital Services, where he leads the overall strategy, design and delivery of citizen-centric and developer-centric digital products. He is also the product lead for TraceTogether, the world’s first...

Micha Benoliel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nodle, a privacy-first, decentralized wireless network for connecting Internet of Things devices and sensors to the Internet, and Coalition Network, a non-profit foundation that provides an open source, secure exposure notification solutions for...

Dr. Sharon Benzeno is the Chief Business Development Officer and leads the Drug Discovery group of Adaptive Biotechnologies, a commercial-stage biotech company that aims to translate the genetics of the adaptive immune system into clinical products to diagnose and treat disease. Prior to joining...

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.   She is the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health...

Dr. Bjorkman received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University. As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow in Don Wiley's laboratory, she solved the first crystal structure of a human histocompatibility complex...

Maria Elena Bottazzi, is Associate Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Co-director of Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is an internationally recognized tropical infectious disease...

Dr Broderick has a broad background in the product development and device development DNA therapeutic and drug delivery field, with specific expertise in in vivo DNA therapeutic animal studies and product development in relation to DNA delivery.  Her particular area of focus is infectious diseases...

Sarah K. Browne, M.D., practices in the areas of internal medicine and infectious diseases in the Washington, DC area, affiliated with the VA Medical Center and MedStar Washington Hospital Center, and is Senior Director, Vaccine Development at Altimmune. Prior to joining Altimmune, she served as...

Jay C. Butler, MD is the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases. In this capacity, he provides leadership to the efforts of CDC’s three infectious disease national centers and helps to advance the agency’s cross-cutting infectious disease priorities.Dr. Butler has 30 years of experience in...

Dr. Crowe received his MD degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also completed his pediatrics residency. Following his clinical training, Dr. Crowe received five years of post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the NIH. He completed...

Hannah is a researcher and artist in data analysis and machine learning, with a focus on modeling worldviews and tools for countering bias in machine learning datasets. She is a co-founder and team lead at the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, which put out the first research on Long COVID in May ...

Carlo is an international operations senior executive with global technical, operational, and P&L experience. He has deep expertise in designing and operating global supply chains in complex regulatory environments, leading accretive M&A activity, devising and executing value creating...

Sharon L. Deem, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACZM. Dr. Deem is the Director of the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) which she founded in 2011. The ICM takes a holistic approach to wildlife conservation, public health, and sustainable ecosystems to ensure healthy animals and healthy...

Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences. Disease ecologist/eco-immunologist. Dr Forbes combines field, laboratory and statistical methods to addresses fundamental questions in pathogen susceptibility and transmission in wildlife. He is especially interested in how anthropogenic environmental...

Christophe Fraser is Senior Group Leader in Pathogen Dynamics at the Big Data Institute, and Professor in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Christophe is interested in studying the population dynamics and epidemiology of pathogens, and translating this knowledge to public health. The primary...

Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an immunologist by training, leading the Center’s COVID-19 Testing Toolkit. Dr. Gronvall is the author of the book Synthetic Biology:...

Jason partners with clients to develop US and global policy assessments and strategies designed to improve access, with a focus on vaccines and infectious disease medicines. He has broad product development and commercialization experience across infectious diseases, including...

I am a UKRI Innovation Fellow part of the Health Data Research (HDR) UK Cambridge at Wellcome Sanger Institute, and in the Dept. of Public Health and Primary and Dept. of Medicine at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on bacterial pathogens and in particular Staphylococcus aureus. I...

Fatima Hassan is a South African human rights lawyer and social justice activist. She’s the founder of and heads the newly established Health Justice Initiative in South Africa and is the former executive director of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa. She has dedicated her professional...

Thomas Hess brings over 15 years of successful leadership experience to his role as Principal, Infectious Disease Market Access at Avalere Health. In a career of 15+ years as a commercial pioneer and innovator leading the development of cutting-edge products (vaccines and therapeutics) in the...

Emma received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2015, studying the hertiability of viral load in HIV. While working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation PANGEA_HIV initiative, she developed an agent-based model to simulate realistic HIV phylogenies, and sequences, used to validate...

Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s...

A practicing physician, Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., is recognized globally as an expert on pandemic preparedness and response as well as on health policy research and practice. He has led groundbreaking research around Ebola and is now on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, leading national...

A Physician-Dentist with more than 20 years experience as a faculty in research, public health and healthcare administration with a special focus on prevention and diagnosis of emerging/re-emerging Infectious Diseases.Special expertise in the area of "translational" and...

Bill Keough is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Supply Chain Development as well as a Professor teaching a variety of courses.  He is also a Professor and Managing Director of the Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Master’s Program at the University of Washington. Bill has over...

Najat Khan, Ph.D., is the Chief Data Science Officer and the Global Head of Strategy & Operations for Janssen Research & Development. This combination of leadership roles — unique in the healthcare industry — enables Najat to drive Janssen R&D strategy and fully integrate Data Science...

Dr. Kindrachuk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Canada, and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the molecular pathogenesis of emerging and re-emerging viruses. His research expertise and experiences have...

Dr. Zoltán Kis is a Research Associate in the Future Vaccines Manufacturing Hub at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London.Zoltán is modelling rapid-response vaccine production platform technologies, such as the RNA platform, for...

Rupali J. Limaye, PhD, MPH, MA, serves as a full-time faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in the Departments of International Health, Epidemiology, and Health, Behavior and Society. Widely seen as an expert in vaccine behavior and decision-making, including...

Fiona Lowenstein (they/she) is an award-winning independent journalist, producer, speaker, and consultant covering health justice, media, and more. They are also the founder of Body Politic, a grassroots health justice organization at the forefront of the patient-led Long Covid movement. Fiona is...

Dr. Syra Madad is part of the NYC Health + Hospitals COVID19 Tiger Team for the enterprise providing ongoing support in infection prevention and control, infectious disease emergency management and healthcare and public health strategic direction, policy and guidance. She leads a team that has been ...

Peter Marks received his graduate degree in cell and molecular biology and his medical degree at New York University and completed Internal Medicine residency and Hematology/Medical Oncology training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has worked in academic settings teaching and caring...

Amanda McClelland, RN, MPH, is the Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics and Resolve to Save Lives at Vital Strategies where she leads a team working to accelerate progress to make the world safer from epidemics. Her achievements include coordinating frontline Ebola response during the 2014...

Jean-Cedric Meeus joined UNICEF as Logistics and Emergency Specialist in 2001.Since then he performed in different Supply chain functions based in Mozambique, HQ NY (Supply Emergency Response Officer), HQ Copenhagen (Chief Emergency Supply Manager), Dakar Regional officer of Western and Central...

Dr. Jacqueline Miller is currently leads the Vaccine Development teams for at Moderna.  She received her M.D. from Northwestern University and trained in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  She later joined Merck Research Laboratories in vaccine clinical development, and...

Kayvon Modjarrad, MD, PhD is the founding Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University. Dr. Modjarrad leads the U.S. Army's development of a vaccine against...

Carol Pearson is a senior health reporter at the Voice of America. She covers a wide variety of health issues including infectious diseases, vaccines, the health needs of people in low-income countries, mental health and medical advances. She has covered AIDS, Ebola, the 2008-2009 influenza...

I am a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac), a vaccine research institute at the University of Saskatchewan. I am also affiliated with the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security. I am a member of the Verena...

Janice M. Reichert, Ph.D., is Executive Director of The Antibody Society. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of mAbs, a peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed biomedical journal that focuses on topics relevant to antibody research and development, and co-editor of the Handbook of Therapeutic...

Dr. Robins is the Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of Adaptive Biotechnologies in Seattle, Washington leading the scientific research and development teams. He most recently served in various roles at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in the Computational Biology...

Dr. Jerald C. Sadoff is currently the Head of Early Development of the Crucell Vaccine Institute which is the Center of Excellence for Vaccine Development for Johnson & Johnson Companies Worldwide. Dr. Sadoff has spent his entire career developing vaccines against a large number of...

Dr. Salmon’s primary research and practice interest is optimizing the prevention of childhood infectious diseases through the use of vaccines. He is broadly trained in vaccinology, with an emphasis in epidemiology, behavioral epidemiology, and health policy. Dr. Salmon’s focus has been on...

Sharon Schendel is Program Manager for the Coronavirus Immunotherapeutics Consortium (CoVIC), a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the NIH and the GHR Foundation. The CoVIC seeks to develop antibody therapies for delivery in low- and middle-income countries to ensure that no ...

Jaimie Shaff currently serves as the Chief Data Scientist for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's COVID-19 Response. Much of Jaimie's work at the Health Department has served to amplify and respond to health inequities in NYC, which is home to more than 8.4 million residents...

Dr Peter Singer is Special Advisor to the Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization. He supports the Director General to transform WHO into an Organization sharply focused on impact at the country level. Dr Singer co-chaired the ...

Walter L. Straus was recently appointed as Vice President and Clinical Safety Lead at Moderna Therapeutics in March 2021. Previously he was the Associate Vice President, Therapeutic Area Head, Clinical Safety and Risk Management at Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc., where he lead a...

David L. Swerdlow MD (CAPT. USPHS, retired) joined Pfizer Vaccines in May, 2015. He is Global COVID Vaccine Medical Lead, Clinical Epidemiology Lead, and Business Development Lead, in the Medical Development & Scientific/Clinical Affairs team at Pfizer vaccines. He leads a diverse group of...

Dr Jason Thompson holds a PhD in Medicine, Masters in Clinical Psychology, and a Bachelor of Science with Honours. He is a Senior Research Fellow within the University’s Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub and a current Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Dr Thompson’s work is...

Dr. Neeta Verma is the Director General of National Informatics Centre, a Premier Science and Technology organization of the Government of India. With a career spanning over three and a half decades, she has been instrumental in implementing high impact digital initiatives across the country. In...

Jenny Wanger sits on the leadership team of Linux Foundation Public Health after having co-founded the exposure notification community the TCN coalition. Now Jenny heads up a number of different initiatives at LFPH, building community and infusing the organization with customer-centric DNA. Prior...

Rebecca Weintraub, MD is the Faculty Director of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and ...

Névine Zariffa, MMath – a highly accomplished thought leader in the fields of biostatistics and data science with extensive experience across all phases of drug development.   Névine had a 25-year career in senior roles at GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca where she also led the Enterprise Data & ...