The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the devastating impact of a global health crisis on individuals, economies, and societies. In response, we witnessed collective achievements that required incredible ingenuity and led to unprecedented levels of funding, the rapid development of vaccines, and widespread political mobilization. As our focus on the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, we must ask ourselves if we are adequately prepared for the next pandemic. Join this session to explore a holistic system approach to pandemic preparedness as cutting-edge experts help us predict and prevent future pandemics.

Speakers
Amanda McClelland - Resolve to Save Lives
Angela Chaudhuri - Swasti
Christian Happi - African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID)
Patipat Susumpow - Opendream
Raj Panjabi - Last Mile Health

Speaker Bios
Amanda McClelland is a Registered Nurse who began her public health career in 2004. Since then, she has cared for children and families around the globe working in response to natural disasters, conflict, and public health emergencies including the West African Ebola crisis. With a focus on local prevention and response, Amanda has spent much of the last decade working with frontline health workers and communities on prevention, early detection, and response to health crises supporting countries to build robust health systems that can find, stop and prevent epidemics.

Angela Chaudhuri has 22+ years of experience in public health in India & internationally
She is a Partner at Catalyst Group of organizations & CEO at Swasti
From evaluation of countries’ national HIV programs to research, capacity building & knowledge management, Angela works with governments, civil society, community groups She has globally co-designed interventions & helped raise over 1.3 Bln USD for TB, HIV, Malaria for 12 countries She has lived in 5 countries & has worked in 30+ She currently serves on the board of Catalyst Foundation & Swasti, & has served on Partnership of Maternal Newborn and Child Health a global alliance hosted by WHO
In her most recent work on leading COVID response through COVIDActionCollab she has been a driving force towards many projects with focus on people-centric health systems.

Christian Happi is a Professor of Molecular Biology & Genomics and Director of the World Bank-funded African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria.
He was at Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2003), Research Scientist (2004-2007) and adjunct Professor (2007-2011).
Professor Happi used next-generation sequencing technology to generate Africa’s first SARS-CoV-2 sequence within 48 hours of receiving a sample of the first case in Nigeria.

Patipat Susumpao is a social entrepreneur, software developer, open data hacker, and public health practitioner. He earned Bachelor's in Computer Engineering in 2004 and is now persuades his Master of Public Health degree at Chiang Mai university class of 2024. He is a co-founder and product architect at Opendream, digital technology social enterprise based in Bangkok, Thailand.

His main interests are in participatory digital disease detection and open-source software development. He pioneered the idea of participatory disease surveillance through SMS (Short Message Service) in north-eastern provinces of Thailand in 2009; development and implementation of mobile Development of DoctorMe: Thai's first personal health care application for iOS and Android;

Dr. Raj Panjabi is a recognized thought leader and social entrepreneur passionate about building rural health systems and ending epidemics. TIME magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare. He has also been listed as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and is a recipient of the $1 million TED Prize.

He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and trained in Internal Medicine and Primary Care as a Resident and Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his Masters of Public Health in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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