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Global Health Security

September 24, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Auditorium, The Forum
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This World Leaders Forum program features an address on global health and preparedness by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, followed by a moderated panel discussion and question and answer session with the audience. As we approach the five-year anniversary of the historic UN Security Council resolution on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the goal of this panel discussion is to assess global preparedness as the World Health Organization and World Bank deliver their first set of recommendations on the margins of UNGA 2019.

Welcome and Introduction by: 
Linda Fried, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health; DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice; Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine; Senior Vice President of Columbia University Medical Center

Keynote:
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Member of The Elders; former Prime Minister of Norway; and former Director-General of the World Health Organisation

Program Participants:
Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, Cochair and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative 
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control
Dr. Nila Farid Moeloek, Minister of Health, Indonesia

Moderated by:
Wilmot G. James, Visiting Professor of Political Science and (non-clinical) Pediatrics

Cosponsored by: 
Earth Institute and Mailman School of Public Health