Monique K. Mansoura | Executive Director, Global Health Security & Biotechnology
Independent

Monique K. Mansoura, Executive Director, Global Health Security & Biotechnology, Independent

From 2002-2011, she led strategic policy, planning and budgeting for a pioneering multibillion-dollar medical countermeasures development and acquisition program in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the authorities of the Project BioShield Act of 2004 and the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006. From 2012-2016, she was the leader of a Global Program Team at Novartis Vaccines (Seqirus, A CSL Company, after the July 2015 acquisition) including a role as Head, Medical Countermeasures and Government Affairs. Americas.

During a recent sabbatical, Monique examined innovative financing approaches in healthcare as a Research Affiliate of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE), Sloan School of Management. She led an LFE healthcare finance initiative with Professor Andrew Lo that explored new business models and financial vehicles for raising and deploying funds to enhance global health security. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Appearances:



Pre-Congress Workshops - 21st April @ 10:00

BIODEFENSE

Protecting public health from biothreats to pandemics.

 

  • What is the progress on new technologies in medical product development?
  • How our governments are incentivizing (portfolio approach), especially with biotech and industry? What International collaborations are being facilitated?

How our governments are incentivizing (portfolio approach), especially with biotech and industry?

10:10 Melinda Hamer, Operating Partner, GHIC

10:30 BARDA & Sabin: Kelly Warfield, Sabin Vaccine Institute’s President of Research & Development, Sabin Institute 

10:50 – 11:50 Panel: Collaboration with industry: the solution for a sustainable posture for biodefence and global health security

Col Matt Clark, Joint Project Manager, CBRN, JPEO-CBRND

Kevin Webb, COO, API Innovation Center

Chan Harjivan, Former Assistant at The White House & Chief Strategy Officer, The Medical Countermeasures Coalition  

11:50 – 12:50 Panel: Rapid vaccine development through manufacturing innovation

Moderator: Praneel Jadav, Manager, Infectious Disease Policy, BIO

Mike Stebbins, Manufacturing and Threat Countermeasures Division, ATI

Renee Hart, President & CBO, LumaCyte

Lakshmi Krishnan, Vice President of Research, National Research Council of Canada

1:00 - 2:00 break

2:00 – 3:10 Panel: What are the remaining bottlenecks holding us back from achieving the 100 day mission?

Moderator: Dr Philip Krause, Independent Consultant & Former FDA

William Falstich, VP, Primary Care Category Supply Chain Lead, Pfizer

Dr Bassam Hallis, Deputy Director, Vaccine Development & Evaluation Centre, UKHSA

Dr Seth Berkley, Former CEO, Gavi; Senior Advisor, Pandemic Center at Brown University

Marion Gruber, Vice President, Public Health and Regulatory Affairs, IAVI

Kent Kester, Executive Director, Vaccine Research and Development, CEPI 

3:10 – 4:10 Panel: International pandemic funding – how can we make it accessible globally?

Moderator: Soazic Elise Wang Sonn, Economist, World Bank Group, Washington D.C.

Dr Seth Berkley, Former CEO, Gavi; Senior Advisor, Pandemic Center at Brown University

Dr Christian Tientcha Happi, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics in the Department of Biological Sciences & Director, African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID)

Megan Rauscher, Senior Manager, Private Sector Program Lead, ThinkWell

Dr Monique K Mansoura, Executive Director, Global Health Security & Biotechnology, Independent

Main Congress Day 2 - 23rd April @ 09:40

Panel: Ensuring equitable vaccine distribution during outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics

last published: 22/Apr/25 01:45 GMT

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