Plenary Session Speakers (appear in sessions order)
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Ilona Kickbusch
Director, Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Germany)
Ilona Kickbusch
Director, Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Germany)
Professor Ilona Kickbusch is the Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Professor Kickbusch key interests relate to the political determinants of health, health in all policies and global health. She is the founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She advises countries and organizations on their global health strategies and trains health specialists and diplomats in global health diplomacy. She continues to advise the WHO.
She is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. She acts as Council Chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin and is vice-president of the European Health Forum Gastein. She has been involved in German G7 and G20 activities relating to global health and the global health initiatives of the German EU presidency in 2020. She chaired the international advisory board for the development of the German global health strategy. She publishes widely and serves on various commissions and boards. She initiated the @wgh300 list of women leaders in global health. She is program chair of the leaders in health network SCIANA. She is co-chair of a Lancet FT Commission on “Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world.” She is a member of the WHO Council on the Economic of Health for All.
Professor Kickbusch has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization. She was key instigator of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and WHOs Healthy Cities Network and has remained a leader in this field. She was the director of the Global Health Division at Yale University School of Public Health and responsible for the first major Fulbright Programme on global health. She has published widely and received many prizes and recognitions.
She has been awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in recognition of her "invaluable contributions to innovation in governance for global health and global health diplomacy".
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Gillian Rowlands
Professor, New Castle University (UK)
Gillian Rowlands
Professor, New Castle University (UK)
Gill Rowlands is a Professor of Primary Care at Newcastle University. Her research interests are the role of health literacy in health, the role of general Practitioners and Family Physicians in addressing the problems faced by patients with lower health literacy, and the development of policy. She founded the Health Literacy UK, is the Chair of the IUHPE Global Working Group on Health Literacy and on the Executive Board of the International Health Literacy Association. She has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and six book chapters, and has co-edited three books. She had led two health literacy policy-related evidence syntheses for the WHO Europe Health Evidence Network.
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Didier Jourdan
Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education (France)
Didier Jourdan
Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education (France)
Didier Jourdan is the chair holder of the UNESCO chair "Global Health & Education" and head of the WHO collaborating center for “Research in Education & Health”.
He is full Professor, former Dean of the Faculty of Education and Vice-President of Blaise Pascal University in France. He used to be President of the “prevention, education and health promotion” commission of the French High Council for Public Health and Director of the Health Promotion Division of the French National Public Health Agency.
Website of the UNESCO chair and WHO collaborating Centre https://unescochair-ghe.org/
Personal website: http://didier-jourdan.com/
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Andrew Pleasant
Senior Advisor, Health Literacy Media (USA)
Andrew Pleasant
Senior Advisor, Health Literacy Media (USA)
Senior Advisor Health Literacy Interventions, Research and Evaluation, Health Literacy Media. Focus on health literacy and social change and community engagement. Sample publication: Using formative research to tailor a community intervention focused on the prevention of chronic disease, Evaluation and Program Planning, Sept 2019 speaker of TGHF 2018
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Rüdiger Krech
Director, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization (WHO)
Rüdiger Krech
Director, Department of Health Promotion, World Health Organization (WHO)
Short Bioscript of Dr Rüdiger Krech
Dr Rüdiger Krech is the Director of the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva since September 2019. He heads WHO's work on risk factors such as tobacco consumption and harmful use of alcohol; he is responsible for work on health-promoting settings and programmes for more physical activity. In addition to the normative work, his team supports member states in public health legislation and ways to impose additional taxes on unhealthy products. Prior to this, Dr Krech was the Director of Universal Health Coverage and played a key role in placing this issue on the global health agenda. From 2009-2014, Dr Krech was the Director of Social Determinants of Health and Equity, and was responsible, among other things, for organizing the World Conference on this topic. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Krech worked at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GiZ), where he developed and implemented the Social Protection agenda for Germany's development cooperation, and at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, where he was Head of Unit for Healthy Ageing.
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Richard Osborne
Professor, Chair, Deakin University (Australia)
Richard Osborne
Professor, Chair, Deakin University (Australia)
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Literacy. Focus on enabling organizations and governments to co-design system-wide improvements in health services to reduce health inequalities. Sample publication: Health literacy: applying current concepts to improve health services and reduce health inequities. Public Health, 2016.
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Audrey Tang
Digital Minister, Executive Yuan (Taiwan)
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister, Executive Yuan (Taiwan)
Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.
In the public sector, Audrey served on Taiwan National Development Council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. To join the cabinet as Digital Minister on Oct 1st 2016.
In the private sector, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.
In the third sector, Audrey actively contributes to Taiwan’s g0v (“gov-zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government”. -
Natasha Khurshid
Managing Editor of National Bulletin of Public Health (Bangladesh)
Natasha Khurshid
Managing Editor of National Bulletin of Public Health (Bangladesh)
Dr Natasha Khurshid (MBBS, MPH, PhD) Associate Professor of Public Health, is currently working as a faculty and Managing Editor of National Bulletin of Public Health, Bangladesh, (the only PH Bulletin from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh). She is the Country (Bangladesh) Director of Asian Health Literacy Association. She also works as guest faculty in different universities. She is recognized as a prominent Health Communication Expert and Health Literacy Professional in Bangladesh. She is involved in research, social service in the health and educational sectors. Besides she is nationally renowned media personality. Communication for health and development is her passion.
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Yu Chuan Jack Li
President, International Medical Informatics Association (Taiwan)
Yu Chuan Jack Li
President, International Medical Informatics Association (Taiwan)
Prof Li is a pioneer of Al in Medicine, Medical Informatics Research and a practicing dermatologist. He has been the Principal Investigators of many national and international projects related to translational biomedical informatics, patient safety and artificial intelligence. He has served as President-elect(2021~2023) of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), as President of Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI). Moreover, he has also been elected as a fellow of Australia College of Health Informatics (2009), of American College of Medical Informatics (2010), and of International Academy of Health Science Informatics (2017). He has dedicated himself to evolving the next generation medical Al for patient safety and prevention ("Earlier Medicine"). He has been involved deeply not only in biomedical informatics projects in Taiwan, but also has developed international collaborations across several continents including Europe, America and Africa.
Position
Distinguished Professor, Taipei Medical University
Dermatologist, Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital
Education
Ph.D, Medical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine
M.D., Medicine, Taipei Medical University
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Caroline Mubaira
Deputy Team Leader, Crown Agents Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Caroline Mubaira
Deputy Team Leader, Crown Agents Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Caroline Antonia Mubaira is a Public Health Specialist working in Zimbabwe in the area of Health Literacy. Caroline holds a Master’s in Public, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Diploma in Health and Adult Education, General Nursing and Midwife qualifications. Caroline has a lot of significant experiences working with health workers and communities on community led initiatives to ensure quality health services that are people centred. The initiatives enabled community engagement, with policy makers. Caroline Mubaira is the Deputy Team Leader of the Results-based financing programme in health (RBF) being implemented in 42 rural districts of Zimbabwe where m-Health is being implemented by both community members and health workers to improve health services at different levels. Caroline worked for Community Working Group on Health and coined the TENDAI (Tracking Essential National Medicines and Diagnostics Access Initiative) project, an intervention designed to ease the burden of the people by monitoring the situation of medicines at community level and disseminating information on accessing essential medicines, provider pharmaceutical marketplace information through a regional info hub and contribute to improving access to medicines in the Southern African Development Community. The Tendai Project was implemented in 13 countries. Caroline is also the chairperson of AFROCAB, a network for community HIV treatment advocates across Anglophone African countries.
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Angela Y. M. Leung
Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Angela Y. M. Leung
Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Professor Angela Leung is Director of Centre for Gerontological Nursing (CGN) and Deputy Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services in School of Nursing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was the Hartford Geriatric Scholars Program awardee in Johns Hopkins University (2014) and Distinguished Gerontological Nursing Educator by National Hartford Centre for Gerontological Nursing Excellence, USA (2018). She is an active researcher in health literacy and dementia caregiving, with a wide range of publications in international journals and inventions (including photovoice, e-painting mobile app, a sensor-based system for alleviating stress). She has a strong belief that technology can help people to understand their current health status and make the informed health decision.
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Sir Michael G. Marmot
Professor, University College London (UK)
Sir Michael G. Marmot
Professor, University College London (UK)
Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations. He takes up a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019, and is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award. Professor Marmot held the Harvard Lown Professorship for 2014-2017 and received Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health 2015. He has accepted honorary doctorates from 18 universities. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. He chaired the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, set up in 2015 by the World Health Organization’s Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/ WHO). He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008. At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO EURO in 2014, and in 2020 Health Equity in England: Marmot Review 10 Years On. Professor Marmot chaired the Expert Panel for the WCRF/AICR 2007 Second Expert Report on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. He chaired the Breast Screening Review for the NHS National Cancer Action Team and was a member of The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. He set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health in the UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health (where he was head of department for 25 years): the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and as President of the World Medical Association in 2015. He is President of the British Lung Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology; a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Professor Marmot is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/
@MichaelMarmot
See: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MGMAR64 -
Stephan Van den Broucke
Professor, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Stephan Van den Broucke
Professor, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
is a full professor and Vice-dean of the faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He formerly held positions at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, the European Commission, and Maastricht University. In his current and previous positions, he combines academic research with building health promotion capacity and policy advice. He coordinated and supervised several international projects on health promotion planning and evaluation, patient education, capacity building, health literacy and safety promotion, and authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. As an educator, he has taught students and health professionals in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, and as a policy advisor he has collaborated with the Belgian Superior Health Council, the Federal Knowledge Center for Health, and the King Baudouin Foundation, as well as internationally with the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority, the World Health Organisation, and the Open Science Foundation. Stephan Van den Broucke is an elected Executive Board Member of the International Union for Health promotion and Education (UHPE) and currently IUHPE Vice-President in charge of Scientific Affairs, as well as a scientific advisor for the Asian Health Literacy Association (AHLA), an associate editor of Health Promotion International, and president of the jury of the MSD-Well Done Health Literacy Awards.
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Joyce A. Sackey
Dean, Multicultural Affairs and Global Health at Tufts University School of Medicine (USA)
Joyce A. Sackey
Dean, Multicultural Affairs and Global Health at Tufts University School of Medicine (USA)
Joyce A. Sackey, M.D. is Dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to joining TUSM, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Master for Oliver Wendell Holmes Society at Harvard Medical School, and Attending Physician in Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Sackey completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was a Senior Rabkin fellow in the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School where she completed advanced fellowship training in medical education.
She is a leader in medical education and has won numerous awards for her contribution to both undergraduate and graduate medical education. She has significant experience in curriculum development, implementation and assessment. She has served on key committees at Harvard Medical School, including the Culturally Competent Care Education Committee and is currently a member of the Curriculum Committee at TUSM.
As Dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health at TUSM, she oversees the school’s key diversity initiatives, including under-represented minority (URM) faculty and student recruitment, retention and development. She oversees the medical school’s Office for Multicultural Affairs and its pipeline programs targeting URM students at the high school, college and post-graduate levels, programs whose overall goal is to increase the number of URM students entering the biomedical careers, and, ultimately, increase workforce diversity.
Dr. Sackey has dedicated her time, skills and talent to addressing health care disparities, both locally as well as globally. A leader in global health education, Dr. Sackey has led a number of faculty development and training workshops for physicians and other health professionals. She has additionally mentored numerous students, residents and junior faculty on global health services delivery research and quality improvement projects.
She is co-founder of the Foundation for African Relief (FAR), a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. The program has made significant contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS through the education and training African physicians in the forefront of providing clinical care to people living with HIV/AIDS. FAR has also helped to expand access to care and early detection of HIV through its Mobile Clinic Initiative in Ghana.
Plenary Session Moderators (appear in sessions order)
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Jürgen M. Pelikan
Professor Emeritus, University of Vienna (Austria)
Jürgen M. Pelikan
Professor Emeritus, University of Vienna (Austria)
Jürgen M. Pelikan, Professor em. of Sociology at University of Vienna / Austria. Currently he is Head, WHO-CC Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care at the Austrian Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH) in Vienna. Jürgen does research on measuring population and organisational Health Literacy, as well as on Health Promotion in Primary Care and in Hospitals. He is PI of a current European project on measuring population health literacy (HLS19) of the action network on Measuring Population and Organisational Health Literacy (M-POHL) within the EHII initiative of WHO-Europe (which he is co-chairing).
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Terence Tsai
Director, Taiwan Association of Health Literacy and Communication (Taiwan)
Terence Tsai
Director, Taiwan Association of Health Literacy and Communication (Taiwan)
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Kristine Sørensen
Director, Global Health Literacy Academy (Denmark)
Kristine Sørensen
Director, Global Health Literacy Academy (Denmark)
As a thought leader I am committed to advance the global scale and scope of health literacy. Through research, capacity building and networking I develop and expand the field of health literacy concerning policy and practice. My educational background is in medicine, public health and global health diplomacy. I have among others acted as expert advisor for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Health Organization, the European Centre of Disease Control, Council of Europe and McKinsey and received the European Health Award 2012 for the societal impact of the European Health Literacy study and the International Health Literacy Award 2017 for setting up the International Health Literacy Association. I am engaged in research, education, consultation, advocacy and public speaking.
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Peter Wushou Chang
Ombudsman, Taiwan (2018~2020)
Peter Wushou Chang
Ombudsman, Taiwan (2018~2020)
Education：
MD (1984), Department of Medicine, National Yangming University Medical College
Master of Public Health (1988), Harvard University College of Public Health, Major: Environmental and occupational health
Doctor of Sciences (1992), Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard University College of Public Health, Major: Radiation BiologyCareer Background：
Ombudsman, Taiwan (2018~2020)
Chairman, Committee of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Taiwanese, Control Yuan, Taiwan (2019)
Associate Professor, Professor, Institute of Public Health, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Yangming University College of Medicine
Visiting scientist, National Institutes of Health, Division of Radiation Epidemiology, Maryland, USA
Advisor of the Ministry of Health; Director of the Health Division, Office in Geneva & Brussels, Representative Office of Taiwan in Geneva and European Union; Director General, Department of International Collaboration, Ministry of Health, Taiwan
International Dean & Vice Dean, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University.
Senior advisor, National Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan.
Secretary General, Asian Health Literacy Association, AHLA, Geneva, Switzerland (2014-2018)
President, Asian Health Literacy Association (2019-2020)
Vice President, International Health Literacy Association, IHLA
Senior Global Health Literacy Adviser, International Center for Migration Health and Development, Switzerland
Editorial Board, Journal "Health Literacy Research and Practice
Editorial Board, Journal of Nutrition and Food Science Forecast
Adjunct Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Fellow scientist, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan
Advisor, Kaohsiung Medical University
Chair Professor, Chuang-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (2019-2020)
Visiting Professor, Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, KZ
Visiting Professor, Dian Nouswantoro University, Semarang, Indonesia
Guest lecturer, Global Health Program, University of Southern California, USA
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Diane Levin-Zamir
National Director, Associate Professor, Clalit Health Services and University of Haifa (Israel)
Diane Levin-Zamir
National Director, Associate Professor, Clalit Health Services and University of Haifa (Israel)
Professor Diane Levin-Zamir is the National Director of the Department of Health Promotion of Clalit, Israel's largest non-profit healthcare organization. She is Professor at the University of Haifa School of Public Health in Israel and teaches the required courses in the health promotion track of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine’s School of Public Health. She is one of the founders and leaders of the Global Working Group on Health Literacy of the International Union Health Promotion and Education. She chairs the National Council of Health Promotion of the Israel Ministry of Health and was one of the founders of the Israel Health Promoters and Health Educators Association. She specializes in action research and policy development in health promotion in community primary care, children and adolescents, people with chronic conditions, hospital and media settings, media/digital health literacy, measuring population health literacy, and cultural appropriateness for health on the policy, research and practice levels. Diane was the principal investigator for the National Survey on Health Literacy in Israel. She is a scientific advisor for the Asian Health Literacy Association, as well as for the Health Literacy for Children and Adolescents project in Germany. She serves on the board of the International Health Literacy Association. Diane has extensively published articles and book chapters on numerous aspects of health literacy and health promotion.
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Ru-Yi Huang
Assistant Professor, I-Shou University (Taiwan)
Ru-Yi Huang
Assistant Professor, I-Shou University (Taiwan)
Dr. Ru-Yi Huang is the Assistant Professor at I-Shou University School of Medicine, where she teaches family & community medicine and quantitative methods for public health. She is also the chief of the center for international education in the E-DA Hospital. She is both the educator and researcher on integrating health and holistic medicine through teaching cross-cultural communication, developing shared decision-making tools, together with health literacy. Dr. Huang’s area of study and practice is cancer prevention and nutrition. She received the 2011 Best Oral Presentation Award from the Taiwan Association of Family Medicine. In 2015, her poster on MOOCs-blended learning received an Outstanding Presentation Award from the international meeting of medical education. She was recently appointed by the department of medical research to establish the center for Meta-analysis to further lead the young scholars for better trans-disciplinary teamwork and holistic approach. In 2018, Dr. Huang joined Asian Health Literacy and served as assistant secretary-general to promote health literacy in Southeast Asia.