Panels

Sustainability and Effectiveness of Approaches to Global Health

The vision of global health is changing; with support from powerful foundations, global health has become a major focus of social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, multinational biotech and pharmaceutical companies, and policy advocates. Leaders from these sectors will discuss the effectiveness of their approach to delivering healthcare in emerging markets. Are these approaches sustainable in the developing world? What barriers are encountered and how do they overcome them?

Moderator & Panelist Bios

	Moderator: Aman Bhandari, PhD Aman Bhandari works on pharmaceutical policy in the Washington DC area and helps run a popular blog dedicated to documenting innovations and solutions for global health (Global Health Ideas). Aman received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in division of Health Policy & Management and a Master’s in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. At Berkeley, he was a United Nations Management of Technology Fellow where he put together a team to research innovations in global health. In the past Aman has worked at Genentech, the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Stanford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and served as a director of the Knowledge and Social Responsibility Program for the National Conference for Community and Justice.

	Panelist: Nap Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA Dr. Hosang is a Lecturer in the MCH Program. He is also Chair of the Interdisciplinary MPH Program. He received his medical degree at The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, and his MPH and MBA at UC Berkeley. Dr. Hosang is a practicing obstetrician (Kaiser-Permanente) with special interests in perinatal outcomes, breastfeeding and uterine fibroids domestically, and the management of maternal and child health services in developing countries. Dr. Hosang is a founding member of the Bay Area International Health Interest Group, a UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Francisco, and Stanford collaborative that promotes educational activities for students with interests in Global Health. Dr. Hosang helped establish the Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD) to facilitate entrepreneurial ventures that improve the flow of reproductive health commodities to rural areas in developing countries and the supply of improved cooking and heating stoves that reduce the health impacts of indoor air pollution in rural dwellings.

	Panelist: Laura Stachel, MD, MPH Founder of WE CARE Solar WE CARE Solar promotes safe motherhood and reduces maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, blood bank refrigeration and mobile communication using solar electricity. She is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with fourteen years of clinical experience, holding an MD from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an MPH in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley (UCB). She is a DrPH candidate at UCB; her dissertation centers on emergency obstetric care in Nigeria. Laura is a consultant for the Population Reproductive Health Partnership, and is co-PI of a study in aimed at improving the standard of maternity care in Nigerian state hospitals. Laura has conducted several community based projects in developing countries including (1) a nutritional assessment of pregnant and postpartum mothers in the Western Guatemalan highlands, and (2) an assessment of the effects of fluoride on the incidence of dental caries in El Salvadorean children. Laura serves on the Editorial Board for the Berkeley Wellness Letter and is a lecturer at the UCB School of Public Health.

	Panelist: Robert Ford Robert joined Abbott in 1996, as a Business Unit Manager, Abbott Diagnostics, with the MediSense acquisition. In 2001, he joined the USO MediSense in Bedford, MA as a Senior Product Manager, Abbott Diagnostics. In 2002, he was named Business Development and Operations Manager, MediSense, Latin America and in 2003, Area Commercial Director, Latin America, MediSense. In December 2007, Robert was named Regional Director, Latin America South, Abbott Nutrition International. Prior to joining Abbott, Robert was a sales rep and marketing trainee for Becton Dickinson Brasil. He assumed his current role as Vice President, Commercial Operations, Abbott Diabetes Care, in June 2008. Robert earned his bachelor’s degree in Business from Boston College.

	Panelist: Charmaine Pattinson, MBA Ms. Pattinson is a Director at the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative (CHAI). She leads a global initiative in Human Resources for Health, which aims to address the insufficient number of qualified healthcare workers in developing countries. Ms. Pattinson was previously the acting Country Director and Deputy Country Director of the CHAI Zambia office. Previously, Ms. Pattinson worked in Market Development at Genentech and in Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets. Ms. Pattinson holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Western Ontario.