Focus: Public Health
Solangel Fernández
Solangel Fernández is an architect, urban designer, and urban economist with 15 years of experience. Throughout her career, she has been in charge of directing urban development and sustainable mobility initiatives as well as large infrastructure projects, especially during trying political times. In Peru, Solangel directed the urban planning offices at the municipalities of San Isidro and San Borja where she and her team developed innovative strategies to transform public spaces for the wellness of communities. Additionally, she has participated and coordinated metropolitan urban plans, key for the development of the country, and directed urban regeneration projects in vulnerable human settlements over the hills of Lima. Previously, she worked on…
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Priya Shete
Priya Shete is a physician specializing in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco General Hospital. Her current work focuses on developing implementation strategies for global tuberculosis guidelines as well as assessing the impact of TB control programs with a particular focus on drug resistant TB. Prior to her professorship at UCSF, Priya served as the health advisor for the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID, based in Washington DC, providing technical guidance for humanitarian health aid in complex humanitarian emergencies across the globe. Her portfolio also included programmatic assistance for USAID's tuberculosis team. Priya has consulted for the WHO and…
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David Scales
David Scales is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine with research interests in global health, placebo studies, and medical communication and interpretation. He is also Co-Founder and Advisor for Health4Palestine, a community health worker program for Palestinian refugees and serves on the board of Questscope, an NGO focused on education and mentorship for vulnerable populations in Syria and Jordan. David is also Chief Medical Officer for Critica, an NGO studying the best ways to combat scientific and medical misinformation online. David has a PhD in Sociology and an MD, both from Yale University.
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Sharmila Nebhrajani
Sharmila Nebhrajani has had a varied career that spans medicine, business, and the media. She currently serves as Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and is responsible for producing evidence-based guidance to support the clinical and cost effectiveness of medical interventions in the UK’s National Health Service. She was previously Chief Executive at Wilton Park, an executive agency of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office convening international dialogues for senior policy makers from around the world involved in tackling the most pressing issues in global affairs. She also spent 15 years at the BBC, latterly as Chief Operating Officer for BBC Future Media & Technology….
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Nneka Mobisson-Etuk
Nneka Mobisson-Etuk is Co-Founder and CEO of mDoc, a social enterprise that integrates proven methodologies in quality improvement and behavioral science with web and mobile-based technology to optimize the end to end care experience for people living with chronic health needs such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. Prior to mDoc, Nneka was Executive Director for Africa at Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a leading global health organization focused on healthcare quality improvement, where, through her leadership, IHI dramatically expanded its efforts at building sustainable change in healthcare delivery systems in priority African countries. A pediatrician by training, Nneka was previously Vice President of Community Health and Population Health Management at…
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Peter Gulliver
Peter Gulliver works at Bank Leumi USA as Chief Strategy Officer, where his team leads the bank's corporate strategy development, financial planning and analysis, and enterprise data and analytics. Peter has built his career at the intersection of management advisory and entrepreneurship, with industry expertise in energy, healthcare, finance, and early-stage ventures. He specializes in helping organizations drive growth during periods of rapid change, which has led him to work in sectors like emerging markets and inner cities. He graduated from the Yale School of Management in May 2009. Prior to receiving his MBA Peter worked in international development, focusing on power and water systems. His long-term goal is to…
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Susana Edjang
Susana Edjang has over 20 years of experience in global development across the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Susana joined CAF in 2022 as country representative in Ecuador before taking on her current role in Argentina. Â She previously held various roles in the United Nations system, including at the World Food Programme, the UN Security Council, the UN Population Fund, and the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, where she managed the Every Woman, Every Child movement and advised on economic, social and development affairs. She also served as a global health and climate change advisor at the British Parliament and as a manager at Global Health Partnerships (formerly…
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Saul Kornik
Saul Kornik has a varied background ranging from healthcare to technology to finance to machine learning to culture change. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Healthforce, an augmentation of technology and doctors that turns nurse-led clinics into effective and specialist health centers. Healthforce is a web application that enables real-time video connections between patients and nurses (or other primary care workers) with higher-level clinical skills (doctors) for the delivery of multi-disciplinary team-based care. The technology reduces care costs, increases care access, and monitors clinical and patient-centric care quality in real-time. Healthforce-supported nurses have run over 1 million consultations and have completed over 80,000 telemedicine consultations with remote doctors. Prior to…
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WAN Yanhai
WAN Yanhai is Founder and Director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute, the largest AIDS NGO in China that uses health education, research, publishing, and conferences to confront the HIV/AIDS crisis in China. As one of the most prominent leaders in the global campaign against HIV/AIDS, Yanhai launched China's first HIV/AIDS counseling hotline in 1992 while working for China's National Health Education Institute. The institute works on HIV/AIDS and public health related policy, legal aid and human rights, and community outreach among the most vulnerable population. Yanhai organized several challenging campaigns in China including a national compensation campaign for the victims of HIV infection caused by blood transfusion or blood products,…
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Allison Squires
Allison Squires is an associate professor of nursing and medicine at New York University and the Director of the Florence S. Downs PhD Program in Nursing Research & Theory Development. Her research focuses on health workforce capacity building around the world, with a track record of work in 35 countries to date. She is the 2019-2020 Distinguished Nurse Scholar for the United States’ National Academy of Medicine where she is contributing to the Future of Nursing Consensus Study. Nurses are the primary focus of her global health workforce capacity building research. In the United States, the patient focus of her work centers on immigrant health and studying the intersections of…
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