• Anne Mills, Prince Mahidol Award Laureate 2009, Head of Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
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• Keizo Takemi, Research Fellow; Professor, Japan Center for International Exchange; Tokai University and former Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japane
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Moderator: Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

Panelists:
1. Sally Stansfield, Executive Secretary, Health Metrics Network
2. Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
3. Jeanette Vega, Viceminister Health, Chile
4. Julian Schweitzer, Acting Vice President, The World Bank

Moderator: Sally Stansfield, Executive Secretary, HMN

Speakers:

1. Health IT in developing countries: legal, ethical and governance priorities
   • Roger Magnusson, Professor of Health Law and Governance, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law
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2. Policy and Technology in Health Information Systems
   • Eric Rasmussen, CEO, InSTEDD
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3. Implementing, national - one patient one record integrated comprehensive system in Belize
   • Michael Graven, Senior Advisor of Health Affairs, Government of Belize
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4. Democratization of information within the health reform framework – Paraguay's national health information system – SINAS
   • Maria Graciela Gamarra de Caceres, General Director of Strategic Information of Health, Ministry of Health, Paraguay
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5. Revisiting health information and eHealth policies and governance structuress in an increasingly complex environment
   • Karl Brown, Associate Director of Applied Technology, The Rockefeller Foundation

Moderator: Mark Smolinski, Director, SE Asia, Global Health, Google.org

Speakers:

1. Improving on the past
   • Ieng Vanra, IT Consultant, WHO/CDCMOH, Cambodia
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   • Channe Suy, Product Manager, InSTEDD (iLAB), Cambodia
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2. Realities of the present
   • Prapas Weerapol, Mukdahan MBDS Associate Province Coordinator, Mukdahan Health Office, Thailand
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   • David Aylward, Executive Director, mHealth Alliance
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3. Visions of the future
   • Ta-Chien Chan, National Taiwan University
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   • John S. Brownstein, HealthMAP co-creator, Assistant Professor, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
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Moderator: Rafael Lozano, Professor, Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Speakers:

1. Informing the response to chronic diseases: Thai National Health Examination Survey
   • Wichai Aekplakorn, Associate Professor, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
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2. Opportunities to understand bio-socio-environmental risks to illness across the life course: the promise and perils of bio-banks
   • Rajesh Kumar, Professor, PGIMER School of Public Health, India
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3. Managing chronic disease: linking better data with better patient care. The role of electronic systems, such as electronic medical records (EMR), in managing large amounts of data more efficiently and the potential benefits in terms of more timely and accurate data for policy-makers and better patient information for health care workers, better clinical management. (Managing HIV/AIDS: Rwanda)
   • Christopher Bailey, Coordinator, WHO
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Moderator: Armin Fidler, Lead Advisor Health Policy and Strategy, The World Bank

Speakers:

1. Improving vital statistics: possibility or pipe dream?
   • Alan Lopez, Head, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
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2. Improving coverage and completeness of vital statistics
   • Joyce W. Mugo, Director, Civil Registration Department, Kenya
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3. Tackling quality issues in vital statistics
   • Sam Notzon, Special Assistant for Global Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, USA
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4. Where civil registration systems are weak: demographic surveillance and verbal autopsy
   • Peter Kim Streatfield, Matlab Bangladesh
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5. The Sample Registration System in India
   • Prasanta Mahapatra, Hon. President, Institute of Health Systems, India
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Moderator: William Hammond, Director, DCHI/DTMI

Speakers:

1. Interoperable information systems
   • William Hammond, Director, DCHI/DTMI
2. Use of Standards in Country Systems
   • Beatriz de Faria Leao, Health Standards Architect, Zilics Health Information Systems, Brazil
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   • Andrew Grant, Director, Collaborative Research for Effective Diagnostics, Sherbrooke University, Canada
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3. Applicable standards and convergence
   • Jennifer Zelmer, CEO, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO)
   • Patrick Whitaker, Technical Officer, WHO
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Moderator: Tim Evans, ADG for Information, Evidence and Research, WHO

Panelists:

1. Frank Nyonator, Director, Policy, Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Ghana Health Service
2. Ties Boerma, Director, WHO
3. Daniel Low-Beer, Unit Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
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4. Sania Nishtar, President & CEO, Heartfile Organization
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Moderator: Daniel Low-Beer, Unit Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria

Speakers:

1. Pakstan: Heartfile's framework for health systems performance assessment
   • Sania Nishtar, President & CEO, Heartfile Organization
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2. South Africa: monitoring health system performance at subnational level
   • Candy Day, Technical Specialist, Health Systems Trust
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3. Zambia: strengthening the analysis for annual health sector reviews through district assessments
   • Christopher Simoonga, Deputy Director for Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Health, Zambia
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4. Thailand: institutionalization of monitoring of health and health systems performance
   • Phusit Prakongsai, Senior Researcher/Medical Doctor, International Health Policy Program (IHPP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
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5. Georgia: Health systems research to improve performance
   • Tea Collins, Senior Health Systems Specialist, Global Forum for Health Research
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Moderator: Keizo Takemi, Research Fellow; Professor, Japan Center for International Exchange; Tokai University

Speakers:

1. Human resources capacity for Health Information Systems in Developing Countries
   • William Hersh, Chair, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University
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2. eHealth Capacity Development in Africa
   • Maurice Mars, Professor and Head of Department of Telehealth, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
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3. eHealth Capacity Building for Rural Health Workers - Lessons from the Trenches
   • Alvin Marcelo, Director, National Telehealth Center, University of Philippines Manila
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4. HIS as a pre-requisite for health system strengthening efforts
   • Brad Herbert, President and CEO, Herbert and Associate
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5. Strengthening Sierra Leone's National HIS - Collaborative Approach
   • Magnus Gborie, Director, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
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6. National Health Accounts and HIS
   • Charu Garg, Senior Health Economist, The World Bank
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Moderator: Adam Wagstaff, Research Manager, The World Bank

Speakers:

1. Universal Access and Equity: Framing the Monitoring and Policy Feedback
   • Adam Wagstaff, Research Manager, The World Bank
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2. Catastrophic impact of out-of-pocket payments for health care in Asia - evidence through the 1990s and 2000s
   • J. Rachel Lu, Professor and Associate Dean, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
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3. Experiences of using health insurance claims database to support purchasing decisions - Estonian case
   • Hannes Danilov, Chairman of Management Board, Estonian Health Insurance Fund
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4. Monitoring effectiveness of universal coverage in Thailand
   • Supon Limwattananon, Associate Professor, Khon Kaen University
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5. The Mexican Electronic Clinical Record Project
   • Giota Panopoulou, Advisor to the Financing Director, Institute of Social Security, Mexico
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Co-Chairs:

• Frank Rijsberman, Director Program, Google
• David de Ferranti, President, Results for Development

Panelists:

1. Fola Laoye, Chief Executive Officer, Hygeia-Nigeria
2. Richard Coker, Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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3. Phal Des, Director, IT Center, Royal University of Phnom Penh
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4. Krishnamurthy (Gopi) Gopalakrishnan, President, World Health Partners
   

Moderator: Miriam Were, GHWA Board Member and Chairperson, National AIDS Control Council, Kenya
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Panelists:

1. Guenel Rodier, Director of International Health Regulations, WHO
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2. Bounlay Phommasack, Deputy Director, Ministry of Health, Lao PDR
3. Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on International Health, Harvard School of Public Health and former Prince Mahidol Awardee
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Moderator: Richard Manning, Chairman of the HMN Board

Panelists:

1. Mohamed-El-Heyba BERROU, Manager of the PARIS21 Secretariat, OECD
2. Jasap NAGARI-POPOITAI, Advisor, PSRMU, Department of Prime Minister & National Executive Council, Papua New Guinea
3. Alan Lopez, Head, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
4. Ivo Njosa, Coordinator Health Information Systems; Health, Nutrition and Population Human Development Network, The World Bank

Moderator: Renata Bushko, Director, Future of Health Technology Institute Download (50.24 kB)

Speakers:

1. Petabyte-age in Health - 2020
   • Gabe Rijpmpa, Director of Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Corporation
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2. 2020 Scenarios of Frontiers of Health Information Technology : Personal Status Monitoring
   • James DelloStritto, Principal Researcher, R&D, Blue Highway LLC
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3. A vision for enhancing public health and addressing health inequalities through Information and Communications Technologies (ICT's)
   • M. Chris Gibbons, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
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4. Strategies for Positive Outcomes: Can Information Technology Make a Difference in Health in Africa
   • Julia Royall, Chief, International Programs, U.S. National Library of Medicine/National Institute of Health
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5. Social Ramifications of Petabyte Age through Evoluation of mHealth
   • Mridul Chowdhury, CEO, Click Diagnostics Inc.
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Moderator: Laragh Gollogly, Managing Editor, Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Speakers:

1. Measuring Health: Disease perspective
   • Tim Evans, ADG for Information, Evidence and Research, WHO
2. Measurement of health: Well-being perspective
   • Ronald Colman, Executive Director, Genuine Progress Index for Atlantic Canada (GPI Atlantic)
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3. Measuring the Immeasurable: Bhutan's Experiment with Measuring Gross National Happiness
   • Dorji Penjore, Deputy Director, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Bhutan
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4. Country Perspective: Thailand
   • Apirak Kosayodhin, Advisor to Prime Minister of Thailand
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Moderator: David Ross, Executive Director, Public Health Informatics Institute

Speakers:

1. Introduction
   • David Ross, Executive Director, Public Health Informatics Institute
2. Presentations of developing country eHealth and public health information systems infrastructure focusing on the need
   • Richard Gakuba, National e-Health Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Rwanda
3. Examples of developed country implementations focusing on design and architectural elements
   • Michael Bainbridge, Principal Consultant, ASE Ltd
   • Ron Parker, Group Director, EHRS Architecture, Canada Health InfoWay
   • Ngai-Tseung Cheung, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Hong Kong Hospital Authority
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4. Methods for improving design
   • Systematic and rational design: David Lubinski, Program Director, PATH
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   • Current initiatives in developing countries - Feedback from Technical Briefing: Chris Seebregts, Senior Manager, eHealth Research and Innovation, Medical Research Council, South Africa

Moderator: Mike St. Louis, Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Speakers:

1. Health Information in Heart of the Storm: Novel H1N1 in Mexico, 2009
   • Juan Eugenio Hernandez Avila, Director, Information Center for Decisions in Public Health, National Institute of Public Health
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2. Situation Awareness – what can Health Learn from Other Sectors
   • Mica Endsley, President, SA Technologies
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3. Early Warning and Response System, EWARS, a critical component of health information system in complex emergencies situation
   • Augusto Pinto, Medical Epidemiologist, WHO, Thailand
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4. Spatially Enabled Decision Support Systems: Enabling Better Humanitarian Coordination
   • Keith Doyle, Senior Information Officer, iMMAP
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5. Strategic Information Flow for Health Emergencies and Response, Ethiopia
   • Tsehaynesh Messele, Director General of EHNRI, Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
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