Health@Davos: Advancing Global Health Policy & Innovation

Welcome to the unDavos Summit - A community-organized series of interactive panels, talks, and networking taking place in Davos, Switzerland - and online - in parallel to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting from January 20-24, 2025. Our mission is threefold: 
• Democratizing Davos: We open the doors to diverse voices and ideas, breaking down traditional barriers to participation. 
• Humanizing Davos: We foster genuine, relationship-driven connections that go beyond transactional networking. 
• Bringing Action to Davos: We turn meaningful discussions into tangible, real-world solutions.

Join us for the Health@Davos 2025 panel, themed "Resilience and Innovation: Future-Proofing Global Health Systems." This essential discussion brings together global leaders, innovators, and health professionals to tackle the pressing issues affecting health systems worldwide. Hosted on January 22, 2025, at the Mountain Plaza Hotel in Davos, this event will empower participants to collaborate on the challenges of global health resilience and equity.

Featured speakers include:

- Laura Herman, Partner at Dalberg
- Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun, President & CEO of the Public Health Accreditation Board
- Dr. Craig Spencer, Emergency Medicine Physician at Brown University School of Public Health
- Robert Metzke, Global Head of Sustainability at Philips
- Dr. John Q. Young, Senior VP for Behavioral Health at Northwell Health
- Tisha Boatman, Global Lead for Healthcare Access at Siemens Healthineers
- Dustin Ross, Founder & CEO of Sunflower Network
- His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana
- Professor José Manuel Barroso, Chair of Gavi and former Prime Minister of Portugal
- Dr. Megan Greenfield, Partner at McKinsey and WEF YGL
- Daniella Foster, Senior VP at Bayer Consumer Health
- Anil Soni, CEO of WHO Foundation
- Dr. Timothy Ferris, President of Red Cell’s Healthcare Practice
- Dr. Beatrice Vetter, Director of NCDs at FIND
- Dr. Pascal M. Golec, Co-Founder of Heights Health
- Smriti Kirubanandan, Managing Director at Accenture

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Transcript

Transcript:
(00:08) uh good afternoon everyone thank you for coming to Health at Davos um my name is Dr Eric Choy Pena I am the vice president of global Health at northwell Health which is one of the sponsors we're really happy to be here along with our colleagues at delberg and the health Finance Institute bringing you the Third Edition of Health at Davos um that is uh part of the UND Davos conference so super excited we have a really great lineup of speakers and guests and firesides um to um to to to inform you with um feel free we'll have breaks
(00:42) throughout the the day um um in between sessions feel free to uh grab some refreshments come back in um uh this is being live streamed so um we are just um want to make you aware of that we usually last year we had about 1500 people on the live stream at its peak so it's not chadam house rules it's being live streamed and recorded So if you ask a question make sure you can appropriate it to yourself and your uh your institution okay just to be clear um I'm really excited about this you know Davos is a very um unique opportunity and
(01:15) that's why northwell and I think dalberg as well um come here and speak here um it's a it's a global village right it's a it's a it's the it's the Magic Mountain it's got a self-contained environment um where we have a lot of time to spend with each other from basically 7:00 in the morning until about 3 in the morning the next day so I hope you enjoyed the conference on behalf of northwell welcome thank you and uh I'll pass it to my colleague Lily from dolberg thank you great thank you everyone for joining it is nice to see
(01:42) such friendly faces out there on a topic that we're all passionate about uh my name is Lily chatwell I am with dalberg advisers and I co-lead our Global healthc care practice uh a little bit about dalberg we are a strategy consulting firm and we focus on inclusive growth and sustainability and so what does that mean um inclusive growth is really how do we develop strategies so everyone benefits not just a certain Elite and what we mean by sustainability I mean we all know the climate crisis um and how do we be
(02:11) thoughtful about that so every project that we do every strategy we do comes with a climate lens um a gender Equity lens and in the United States a racial Justice lens um one more slide about dalberg um so Healthcare is one of our largest practice areas we have over 200 clients and we've done over 700 um projects across the globe literally in Asia subsaharan Africa Europe um North and South America so very proud of our work and enough about dalberg we would love to chat with you uh further um but this is our lineup for today so
(02:46) as Eric shared we have a mix of uh different formats we're going to start with a talk from my colleague Laura Herman right here um we'll go into four panels today and then we'll also have a keynote speaker um so we do have moments where we will pause um ask questions so please get ready and raise your hand when we get into that um and then in terms of speaker bios we have a phenomenal lineup and we could spend the whole panel um talking about people's backgrounds so we will not do that what you have are QR codes and so please access
(03:17) the QR code you can hear about each of these speakers um and then we do have sessions in uh breaks in between for networking and then we also have cocktails at the end uh to really facilitate those conversations um and so with that let me invite Laura Herman to the stage she's a partner at dalberg and a coast conspirator in a lot of our Healthcare work