Lessons from COVID-19: Building A Stronger Global Health System

What can we learn from the global response thus far to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Last year, during the UN General Assembly in NYC, Foreign Policy brought together an international group of health officials and leading experts to address the growing threat antimicrobial resistance poses to global health.

Now, as the world grapples with the response to and fall-out from the COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Policy reconvened a global roundtable of leading health experts and policy makers to assess progress to date, identify critical gaps in health infrastructure, and help chart a path forward. The dialogue will examine the unique challenges faced by different regions and ways they have responded to the pandemic. What lessons can be gleaned from these evolving strategies against COVID-19? How do we strengthen public health systems for the future and ensure they meet the needs of vulnerable populations?

Event Details

Speakers

Ravi Agrawal

Managing Editor, Foreign Policy
Ravi Agrawal is the managing editor of Foreign Policy. Before joining FP, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade, including his most recent position as...
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ravi agrawal

Kate Dodson

Vice President, Global Health, UN Foundation
Kate Dodson is the Vice President for Global Health at the United Nations Foundation. In this role, Kate works to ensure that the UN Foundation is...
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Kate_Dodson

Esperanza Martinez

Head of Health, ICRC
Esparanza joined the International Committee of the Red Cross as their Head of Health in 2015, where she oversees operations across 80 countries. ...
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Esperanza_Martinez (2)

Erwin Tan

Director of Thought Leadership - Health, AARP
Erwin J. Tan MD is a board certified internist and geriatrician and the AARP Director of Thought Leadership- Health. Erwin previously served as the director of Senior Corps at t...
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Erwin-Tan-AARP-Foreign-Policy

Dr. Jason Wang

Director of Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Stanford University
Dr. Wang is the Director of Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2011, he was a faculty member at Boston University Schools of Medicine and...
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chih-hung-wang-Foreign-Policy-COVID

Olivia Wigzell

Director-General, National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
Olivia Wigzell is director at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Sweden. Before this she was director at the National Board of Health an...
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Olivia_Wigzell

Dr. Nizar Zein

Chairman, Global Patient Service and Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Dr Zein is the Chief of Hepatology and the inaugural endowed holder of the Mikati Foundation Chair in Liver Diseases. He received several awards, ...
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Dr_Nizar_Zein

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