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October 21, 2020 
11:00 AM Wednesday, October 21, 2020 11:00 am-2:35 pm EDT
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Gairdner Global Perspectives Panel:
Sustainable Development Goals & Global Health through the Pandemic Lens
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
11:00 am-2:35 pm EDT
Live French translation will be available.
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In partnership with:
International Development Research Centre
Grand Challenges Canada
Centre for Global Health – Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
SickKids Centre for Global Child Health
11:00 am Welcome and Introduction
Janet Rossant, President & Scientific Director, Gairdner Foundation
Montasser Kamal, Program Leader, Maternal and Child Health, IDRC and Karlee Silver, Co-CEO, Grand Challenges Canada
11:05 am Health and Health-Related SDGs: Where are we after 5 years?
Zulfiqar Bhutta, Inaugural Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health & Inaugural Ibn Sina Scholar in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children; Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health; Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University
11:25 am Lessons from HIV for the Covid-19 Response
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate Scientific Director, CAPRISA; Professor, Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York; Professor, Public Health, Nelson Mandela Medical School; Pro Vice-Chancellor (African Health), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa & Salim Abdool Karim, Director, CAPRISA; CAPRISA Professor in Global Health, Columbia University, New York; Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
11:45 am Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: From AIDS to COVID-19
Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, 2016 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Laureate
12:05 pm COVID-19 and global malnutrition: a sting in the tail or a chance to remake our food systems?
Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
12:13 pm Building Resilient Health Supply Chains to achieve SDGs: 2020 and Beyond
Yasmin Chandani, CEO, inSupply Health Limited
12:20 pm Panel Discussion #1- Governments, Organizations & Structures and Health SDGs
Moderated Discussion Session with Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Participants: Lawrence Haddad, Yasmin Chandani, Anthony Fauci, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Quarraisha Abdool Karim
1:00 pm COVID19: Lessons for Public Health and Clinical Practice
Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, WHO
1:20 pm Ehsaas Emergency Cash : Digital Transformations within Government in the COVID-19 Context
Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant of Pakistan’s Prime Minister and Federal Minister, Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Ministry, Government of Pakistan
1:27 pm Nowhere to turn: Youth, SRH, and GBV during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cleopatra Mugyenyi, Director, Africa Regional Office, International Center For Research On Women
1:35 pm Discussion Panel #2- Equity and Inclusion across SDGs
Moderated Discussion Session with Dr. Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director & Co-founder, Women in Global Health
Participants: Sania Nishtar, Cleopatra Mugyenyi, Salim Abdool Karim
2:15 pm The Age of Pandemics: How to prepare and how to respond
Peter Piot, Director, Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2015 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Laureate
2:35 pm Closing Remarks
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