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Dr. Ted Jackson, Associate Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University
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| Ted Jackson teaches courses on project management in developing countries and development evaluation training (a joint World Bank-Carleton University professional-development program) that focuses on Africa, among other regions. He is the Director of the Centre for Training, Investment and Economic Restructuring. His research interests include local and regional development, financing civil society, basic human needs, project management, and participatory research and evaluation. He has also been a consultant for CIDA, particularly concerning a large bilateral project, the District Capacity Building Project, in northern Ghana, where decentralized governance, community water supplies, gender equality and, of late, peacebuilding, are some of the main themes. In November 2001, he participated in the inaugural steering committee meeting of this project in Blogatanga, Ghana. In December 2001, he spoke on community economic development at the Canadian government’s National Policy Research Conference in Ottawa. |
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Ernest Loevinsohn, Director General, Canadian International Development Agency
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| Dr. Ernest Loevinsohn is Director General of the Program Against Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He is Chairman of the Stop TB Coordinating Board, as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors of RESULTS, a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization.Dr. Loevinsohn was previously the Director General of the Canadian Food Aid Center of CIDA and the Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Hunger.
Dr. Loevinsohn received a Ph.D. in political theory from Princeton University. |
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José Esparza, Senior Advisor on HIV Vaccines, Gates Foundation
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| Creating Partnerships in Vaccine R&D: The case of HIV Vaccines |
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| José Esparza is currently the Senior Adviser on HIV Vaccines at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Seattle, where he is responsible for the foundation activities in the area of HIV vaccines, also serving as head of the interim Secretariat of the “Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise”. Dr Esparza has published over 150 articles, chapters and review articles, mostly on human virology, HIV/AIDS and vaccinology, but also on the history of epidemics and vaccination. He is a member of the Editorial Board of “Human Vaccines” and “Current Opion on HIV and AIDS” and he serves in numerous scientific committees around the world. He has received numerous awards, including the 2005 GSK International Leaders in Microbiology Lecture. |
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Dr. John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
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| As the Senior Vice President, External Strategy Development at IAVI, Mr. McGoldrick provide strategic leadership in developing and implementing plans for the organization’s fundraising efforts and external relationships in both the public and private sectors.
Mr. McGoldrick had been responsible for the $150 million “Secure The Future” program which continues at BMS to develop models for treatment of HIV/AIDS in nine African countries. At BMS, he had been instrumental in other initiatives against HIV, including reducing prices to no-profit levels, non-enforcement of patents in Africa, technology transfer to generics, and recently, the donation of a promising topical microbicide. He had been a principal and served as Chair of the Accelerating Access Initiative (AAI), the international collaboration of drug companies and five U.N.-led international agencies to increase access to antiretroviral therapy. Previously he was a senior partner at the firm of McCarter & English. He received undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard.
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Dr. Orin Levine, Associate Professor John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Executive Director, PneumoADIP
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| Public-Private Partnerships: Suggestions for moving forward on HIV/AIDS |
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| Dr. Levine’s research interests include the epidemiology, control and prevention of infectious diseases, especially respiratory infections in developing countries. I have worked for over 10 years on efforts to accelerate the development, evaluation and introduction of new vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae type B and Streptococcus pneumoniae into routine immunization programs in developing countries. Currently, I serve as Director of the Pneumococcal Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan (PneumoADIP), a $30 million project sponsored by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. The PneumoADIP is dedicated to developing an evidence-based to address issues of pneumococcal vaccine supply and demand in the world’s poorest countries.PneumoADIP is a small, dedicated team based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is supported by a $30 million grant from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. PneumoADIP aims to achieve its goals through partnerships with countries, donors, academia, international organizations and industry. PneumoADIP coordinates its activities through a strategic alliance with the World Health Organization. |
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Dr. Ranjana Kumar, GAVI Alliance
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| Ranjana Kumar has had a career spanning over 20 years within the health sector in India with the public sector, civil society organisations and donor agency. She has extensive experience working with non governmental/ civil society organisations associated with improving access to and quality of Sexual, Reproductive and Child health services including HIV/AIDS. Since January 2007, she has been a Senior Programme Officer for the GAVI Secretariat in the Country Support Cluster focusing on supporting countries in the South and South East Asia region. She has also been a health advisor for the Department for International Development (UK) based in India for the past seven years working on issues such as child health and mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS. |
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Dr. Kevin Keough, Consultant / Former CEO of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and Chief Scientist Health Canada
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| Dr. Keough is currently a private consultant. He was appointed President and CEO of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in July 2004. He was Chief Scientist of Health Canada from 2001 to June 2004. During that period he continued to maintain an active research laboratory at Memorial University, Saint John’s, Newfoundland as a Professor of Biochemistry in its department of Biochemistry and Pediatrics. Previously, Dr. Keough was the Vice-President (Research and International Relations) at Memorial. He was a member of the National Task Force that developed the proposal for a Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 1998, and of its interim Governing Council in 1999-2000. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canada Co-Chair of the Canada-European Union S&T Agreement. He has been an Executive Member of the Boards of Directors of the Genesis Corporation and of the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Marine Communications, the Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering and Operation ONLINE Incorporated. He is a founding and executive member of the Board of Directors of Genome Canada. Dr. Keough is a past-President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, the Canadian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators. Dr. Keough was Deputy Chair of the CSTA from 2000 to 2004. |
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Hilary Pearson, President, Philanthropic Foundations of Canada
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| Hilary Pearson’s career has spanned all three sectors, public, private and not-for-profit. She began her career with the Canadian federal government where she spent over 12 years as a policy analyst and senior manager. Moving to Montreal in 1993, Ms Pearson became Vice-President, Strategic Development, at Royal Bank of Canada. In 1996, she became a management consultant and began to work in the non-profit sector, with a wide range of clients, from national membership organizations and operating charities to local organizations in the health, cultural and social services field. In November 2001, she was named President of Philanthropic Foundations Canada, a member association for Canada’s independent and family foundations. PFC is based in Montreal.Ms. Pearson is a member of several nonprofit boards, including the Stratford Festival of Canada, Imagine Canada and Centraide of Montreal.
Ms. Pearson holds a BA and an MA in Political Economy from the University of Toronto. |
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Dr. Susan Phillips, Director, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University
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| Dr. Susan Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University where she has been a faculty member since 1988. She is also a Senior Academic Fellow with the Canada School of Public Service and a Research Scholar with the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development (a joint research unit of Carleton and the University of Ottawa). A political scientist by discipline, Susan did her undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria, a Masters at the University of Waterloo, and a doctorate at Carleton University.Dr. Phillips has published extensively in the areas of citizen engagement and governmental relationships with the voluntary sector, federalism and social policy, and urban public policy. She has been an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy, an editor of How Ottawa Spends, and is a member of the editorial board of the Philanthropist. She has also been a Policy Advisor to national voluntary organizations, urban governments and a variety of federal departments and sits as a board member of Volunteer Canada. |
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