Charles Dalton is Senior Health Specialist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He has 30 years of public and private health sector experience, including at the UK National Health Service and KPMG South Africa, where he completed over 100 public and private advisory projects. He joined IFC in 2013 where he works globally evaluating IFC health service investments.
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The Minister of Health and Social Protection is a doctor and has a master's degree in Economics from the Javeriana University. He also has a master's degree in Public Health / Occupational Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, and a doctorate in Public Health, from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. In his professional career, the position he held as Deputy…
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Dr. Diop started his career public servant career in Senegal as Health Economist at the Health Ministry as Coordinator of the Health Financing and Partnership Support Unit, which later became the Senegalese Universal Health Coverage Agency. Since 2013 Dr. Diop is at the Délégation Générale à la Protection Sociale et à la Solidarité Nationale, where currently he holds the position of Director of…
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Nonso is the founder and Chief Growth officer at SOSO CARE. He is a social entrepreneur with obsession on excellent ways to bridge poor healthcare and financing. In 2018, he founded Jaracare Innovation, a digital platform which improves access to healthcare through telemedicine, that was selected as one of among 7 startups from Africa by the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 2019, he founded…
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Itoro is the COO and co-founder at Clafiya. She is a global health specialist and advocate with over 7 years of experience working with Government and development organizations to improve the health outcomes of vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has experience working with National and state governments to coordinate the implementation of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and…
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Marcelo Bortman is a Lead Health Specialist in the Health Nutrition and Population practice. He is Team Leader for several project in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Central Asia, and China. Marcelo is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, that worked 20 years as family medicine doctor in the field and 18 years working internationally at the World Bank.
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Dr Ahmed Ogwell currently serves as the Deputy Director at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) – a specialised agency of the African Union (AU). In this capacity, he works with AU Member States and other partners, leading a team of experts in securing Africa’s health through effective preparedness, early detection and rapid response to disease outbreaks and public…
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Dr. Munir K. Eshetu is senior technical advisor to the minister at Ministry of Health of Ethiopia. He at different positions in the ministry including as chief of staff and director of health service quality and safe surgery directorate. Dr. Eshetu has more than 16 years of academic, clinical practice and research in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and health system quality. His main…
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Dr. Paulin Basinga is the Director of Health for Africa at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Paulin Basinga serves as the foundation’s director of health for Africa, where he leads a growing team in the development and execution of the country plan to fulfill the foundation’s programmatic priorities in Africa. This work involves complex coordination across the foundation’s divisions…
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Dr. Suraya Dalil is the Director of the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care – a new programme established last year. She was the Minister of Public Health in Afghanistan from March 2012 through 2014 and Acting Minister of Public Health from January 2010 to February 2012. Dr. Dalil was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the UN and international…
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