On October 23, 2020, Meridian virtually convened more than 40 world leaders to explore solutions to shared challenges at The Meridian Summit on The Rise of Global Health Diplomacy. The Summit was comprised of eight sessions of over nine hours of content, on topics ranging from global health security, healthcare equity, supply chains, the role of private-public partnerships in economic recovery efforts and health innovations in the time of COVID-19. Each session featured leaders in the health and diplomatic spaces from across sectors and borders, whose conversations presented salient emerging themes and key takeaways.
Summit Agenda
THE CALL FOR GLOBAL HEALTH DIPLOMACY PLENARY
- Welcome Remarks | Ambassador Stuart Holliday, President and CEO, Meridian
- Introductory Remarks | Ms. Sally Susman, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Pfizer
- Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, U.S. Surgeon General | Moderated by Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
- Ambassador Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD | Moderated by Elise Labott, Founder, Twopoint.o Media
- Her Excellency Jeannette Kagame, First Lady of Rwanda
- Congressional Panel | U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) | Moderated by Carmen Paun, Health Reporter, Author of Global Pulse, POLITICO
SOLUTION SESSIONS
- Harnessing Momentum to Build Global Health Security
- Joe Daly, Senior Partner, Gallup
- Hatice Küçük, Executive Director, The G20 Health and Development Partnership
- Jonathan Margolis, PhD, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, Space, and Health, Bureau of Oceans and International Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
- Huda Al-Katheeri, Senior Director, Ministry of Public Health, Qatar
- Elise Labott, Founder, Twopoint.o Media
- Reconceptualizing and Retooling the Global Health Workforce
- Christoph Koenen, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Otsuka Pharmaceutical
- Georges Bwelle, MD, Visceral Surgeon, Central Hospital of Yaoundé, Cameroon; President and Founder, ASCOVIME
- Kelly Saldaña, Director of the Office of Health Systems, Bureau for Global Health, USAID
- Rabih Torbay, President and CEO, Project HOPE
- Advancing Equitable Access to Healthcare Worldwide
- Brad Knox, Senior Vice President & Counsel, Federal Relations, Aflac
- His Excellency Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the U.S.
- Monica Webb Hooper, PhD, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Tara Kangarlou, Journalist; Founder, Art of Hope
LEADERSHIP IN TIME OF CRISIS PLENARY
- Plenary Opening Remarks | Ambassador Stuart Holliday, President and CEO, Meridian
- Dr. Richard Jonas, Co-Chair, Meridian Summit and Diplomacy Dinners
- Tom Mihaljevic, MD, CEO and President, Cleveland Clinic | Moderated by Joie Chen, award-winning journalist
- Wayne Frederick, MD, President, Howard University | Moderated by Ambassador Stuart Holliday, President and CEO, Meridian International Center
- David Rubenstein, Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group | Moderated by Joie Chen, award-winning journalist
- Meridian Global Leadership Awards Overview | Ambassador Stuart Holliday, President and CEO, Meridian
- Corporate Leader Award | Albert Bourla, DVM, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer
- Global Citizen Award| Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D., Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University
SOLUTION SESSIONS
- The Private Sector’s Role in Rebuilding a More Equitable Economic Recovery
- Ambassador Stuart Holliday, President and CEO, Meridian
- Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
- Suzanne Clark, President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Christa Gyori, Co-Founder and CEO, Leaders on Purpose
- Sekou Kaalund, Managing Director, Northeast Division; Director, Consumer Banking, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Puru Trivedi, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Meridian
- Trading Up: Rethinking International Health Supply Chains
- Her Excellency Kirsten Hillman, Ambassador of Canada to the United States
- The Honorable Fred Hochberg, Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Prashant Yadav, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; Affiliate Professor of Technology and Operations, INSEAD
- Terrance Brick, Vice President, Global Supply Chains, Boston Scientific
- Luiza Savage, Executive Director, Editorial Initiatives, POLITICO
- Global Health Innovations in the Time of COVID-19
- Natalie Jones, Senior Vice President for External Affairs and Diplomatic Engagement, Meridian
- Betty Chiang, MD, Vice President of Public Health and Medical Affairs, Gilead Sciences
- Megan Molteni, Biotechnology and Public Health, Staff Writer, WIRED
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Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Health, Government Whip, Singapore
CLOSING REMARKS
- The Honorable Ann Stock, Board of Trustees Chair, Meridian
Thank you to our sponsors
Summit Co-Chairs
Richard Jonas & Katherine Vernot-Jonas
Mary & John Walsh
Media Partner
POLITICO
Corporate Chair
Pfizer
