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Summary Sentence: The Summit convenes health experts from the public and private sectors, including senior CDC leadership, Washington policymakers and think tanks, and international health experts.
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Summit on Global HealthAtlanta Summit on Global Health: The Race to Beat COVID-19 A Virtual Summit
June 1-3, 2021
Overview: The World Affairs Council of Atlanta –in collaboration with CARE USA, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and The Carter Center – hosts its 9th annual Atlanta Global Health Summit. The Summit convenes health experts from the public and private sectors, including senior CDC leadership, Washington policymakers and think tanks, and health experts from the US, the United Kingdom, Africa and India. The Summit’s focus is on the three critical, fast evolving dimensions of the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic: the pandemic’s acceleration of the preexisting hunger crisis complicated by the added challenge of economic recession; the unprecedented and highly problematic effort to launch remarkably promising vaccines worldwide in the race against proliferating variants and misinformation; and the intensifying international debates on critical reforms to better manage the current crisis and lay the groundwork for future preparedness, in a fragmented world beset by nationalism, geopolitical clashes, and acute scarcity.
This event is co-sponsored by the Atlanta Global Studies Center.
June 1: Multiple Crises: Pandemic, Hunger, Economic Recession and AMR
12:00 Setting the stage: India. How a Second Covid Wave Surprised One Country. Ramanan Laxminarayan, Founder and Director, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, and Founder of OxygenForIndia In conversaton with Paige Alexander, President and CEO, The Carter Center
12:30 Panel 1: How to Respond to the Food Security Crisis Globally and at Home
1:30 Closing Keynote: What Must the G7 Do to Help the Rest of the World
Professor Dame Sally Davies, The United Kingdom Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance + Master, Trinity College, Cambridge
In conversation with J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, SVP and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
June 2: Can Vaccines Win the Race Against Variants and Misinformation?
12:00 Opening Keynote: Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In conversation with Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, President & CEO, The Chicago Community Trust
12:30 Panel 2:
June 3: What are the Essential Reforms, and How to Achieve Them?
12:00 Opening Keynote: Gayle E. Smith, Coordinator, Global COVID Response and Health Security, U.S. Department of State
In conversation with J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, SVP and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
12:30 Panel 3:
