Agendas

Global Health and Development Forum

Address: Yuanming Hall, Zhongguancun Exhibition and Transfer Center Time: 08:30 ~ 12:20

Hosts: Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Organizers: Department of Science and Technology Talent, MOST; China Science and Technology Exchange Center




8:30-8:45 Welcome Address
8:45-10:15 Keynote speeches
8:45-10:15

Theme 1: Science empowers life and health

Report 1

Title: Innovation and Curiosity Driven Research

Barry J. Marshall (Australia), Winner of 2005 Nobel Prize in

Physiology or Medicine

Report 2

Title: The development and initial validation of AI-aided thoracic surgery system

WANG Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Dean of Peking University People's Hospital

Report 3

Title: One innovation to stop the next pandemic: the Global Health Emergency Corps

Scott F. Dowell (The United States of America), Senior Advisor, Global Health Emergency Corps of WHO

Report 4

Title: Improving Pandemic Readiness and Resilience: A Dual Strategy to Invest in Health Systems

Robert Hecht (The United States of America), Professor of Yale School of Public Health

Report 5

Title: The multidisciplinary cross connection for Health Challenges

Liang Wannian (China), Executive Vice-Dean of Vanke School of Public

Health, and the Dean of Institute for Healthy China at Tsinghua University

Report 6

Title: The Evolving Landscape of Global Infectious Disease Control

Melanie Saville (The United Kingdom), Chief Scientist Officer of

PATH

10:15-10:25 Break
10:25-11:40 Keynote speeches
10:25-11:40

Theme 2: Addressing health challenges by innovation

Report 7

Title: Innovation in disease surveillance – where do we go from here

David Blazes (The United States of America), Deputy Director for Vaccine Development & Surveillance of BMGF

Report 8

Title: Driven by innovation & Connecting the world

ZHANG Qiang (China), Chairman of United Imaging

Report 9

Title: Respiratory Diseases: Exploring Innovative Control Strategies from Treatment to Prevention

XIAO Hui (China), Head of Marketing, Vaccines & Immunotherapy Division, AstraZeneca

Report 10

Title: The Innovation of Biomedical Engineering for Global Health Challenges

WU Chengtie (China), Director of Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Report 11

Title: Pushing the boundaries of healthcare: Innovative approach to treating the untreatabl

Astrid Scherer (Germany), Vice President and Global Head of Product development and Performance Excellent, Bayer Group

11:40-12:15 Panel Discussion
11:40-12:15

Chair:

XU Fujie (US), Deputy Director, Head of Health Innovation and Partnership of the China Country Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guest 1: Renaud GABAY (France), Executive Vice President of RDPAC

Guest 2: Zhang Rumin (US),  Chief scientific officer of GHDDI

Guest 3: REN Minghui (China), Director of Institute for Global Health of Peking University, Former Assistant Director-General of WHO

Guest 4: Chin Yen TAY (Malaysia), Helicobacter Laboratory Manager,the Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research & Training, University of Western Australia

Guest 5: WU Chengtie (China), Director of Suzhou Institute ofBiomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guest 6: Steve Hoffman (US), Renowned investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, founder of Founder Space, the top startup accelerator in the US

12:15-12:20 Concluding Remarks
12:15-12:20

Lang Lin,Deputy Director, Head of Health Innovation and Partnership of the China Country Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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