Seth Berkley | Former CEO, Gavi, Senior Advisor,
Pandemic Center at Brown Univertsity

A medical doctor and infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr Seth Berkley is currently serving as an advisor and Board member to numerous health and technology companies and is an Adjunct Professor at the Pandemic Center at Brown University. He previously was CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance from 2011-23, co-created COVAX for access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, founded and was CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), was an officer of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ministry of Health Epidemiologist in Uganda and worked in Special Pathogens at the US CDC. He has published hundreds of articles, received numerous prestigious awards, three honorary doctorates, given three TED talks and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Berkley received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.

Appearances:

Main Congress Day 1 - 22nd April @ 09:10

Opening Keynote Panel: Addressing global health security concerns

· Adoption of new pandemic accord

· Funding & research priorities for medical countermeasures for ID

· Vaccines increasing role in global health security

· Encouraging global compliance and accountability

Dawn O'Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), United States Department of Health and Human Services

Delese Mimi Darko, Chief Executive Officer, Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana

Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, Co-Lead R&D Blueprint for epidemics, Health Emergencies Programme (WHE),, World Health Organisation

Wolfgang Philipp, Principal Adviser, Chief Science Officer, European Commission Health Emergency Preparedness & Response (HERA)

Ahmed Ogwell, Vice President of Global Health Strategy, United Nations Foundation

Moderator: Gregory Poland, Director of Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic

Seth Berkley, Former CEO, Gavi, Senior Advisor,, Pandemic Center at Brown Univertsity

Main Congress Day 1 - 22nd April @ 16:40

Keynote panel: Measles eradication goals – are they out of reach?

Have we made progress in combatting declining immunization rates?
Impact of recent outbreaks – how have states been responding to tackle them?
Public health
Behavior and uptake
How much will the anti vaccine movement spill over into childhood immunizations – do we come back to baseline?
Summary of where we are at – How much of that is compared to the past – how do we look post covid vs pre covid as to how we are on track to eliminate measles.
Has the reduction in deaths slowed now with the pandemic and are we bouncing back?

Moderator: Gregory Poland, Director of Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic

Peter Hotez, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine