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In the last decade, Russia has increased its global engagement, while at the same time pursuing policies at home that are giving rise to HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemics that are a risk for its own populations, as well as its neighbors. These developments have unfolded against a backdrop of highly malevolent Russian behavior across many fronts that has resulted in the imposition of extensive sanctions. In this special joint episode of Take as Directed and Russian Roulette, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with Jeff Mankoff, Acting Director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program; and Judyth Twigg, Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Senior Associate with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program. The three discuss Steve and Judy's recent analysis, “Putin and Global Health: Friend or Foe?” which outlines an opportunity to expand U.S. engagement to promote health security and counter Russian influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
While the world has seen tremendous improvement in the availability of life-saving vaccines, new, targeted approaches are needed to address remaining gaps in immunization coverage. Among pressing challenges are completing polio eradication; reaching the disenfranchised, including those in fragile and disordered settings; supporting governments as they develop their own sustainable immunization systems, and; addressing vaccine hesitancy. The World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the U.S. government, and other global immunization organizations are striving to meet these demands as they develop new strategies and programmatic enhancements for the next decade of global immunization. If successful, these advances have the potential to significantly enhance global stability and health security.
The CSIS Global Health Policy Center will host a major conference on September 27 that will examine the innovations that will shape this future. The conference will feature keynote presentations by Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of Gavi; Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals at the WHO; and Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF.
Registration will open at 8:30am.
Light refreshments will be served in the morning and lunch will be served at 11:30am.
Seth Berkley
Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Moderated by:
Nellie Bristol
Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Muhammad Ali Pate
Global Director, Health, Nutrition, and Population, World Bank, and Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF)
Kerry Pelzman
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development
Anne Schuchat (RADM, USPHS, RET)
Principal Deputy Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Moderated by:
Amanda Glassman
Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Rina Dey
Communication Director, CORE Group Polio Project, India
David Broniatowski
Associate Professor, George Washington University
with a video message from:
Congressman Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-28)
Moderated by:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Rebecca Martin
Director, Center for Global Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Violaine Mitchell
Interim Director, Vaccine Delivery, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
with a video message from:
Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Moderated by:
Katherine Bliss
Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this episode, Steve Morrison, Sara Allinder, and Andrew Schwartz discuss the uncomfortable paradox surrounding South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. At the time of the interview, Steve had recently returned from a documentary filming trip to South Africa, while Sara was completing analysis based on a February 2019 visit noted in her analysis piece, The World’s Largest HIV Epidemic in Crisis: HIV in South Africa. The conversation includes a discussion of the September 2019 outbursts of xenophobic violence and targeted violence against women, and how those factor into the HIV epidemic.
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 17, has been ongoing for over a year. As of mid-August, there have been over 2,800 cases and 1,900 deaths. The outbreak is not expected to be contained in the near future. Some experts argue that Ebola is becoming endemic to the area and will spread regionally. Médecins Sans Frontières and other NGOs are retooling their approaches to win community trust, while WHO, the World Bank, the U.S. government, and others are putting in place plans for a renewed push in the next six months. Access by seasoned U.S. civilian public health experts to the hot zone remains highly problematic, owing to violent attacks on health providers, the limited capacity of the United States to deploy official civilian experts into austere environments, and a risk aversion born of the Benghazi tragedy. The U.S. response is further constrained by U.S. funding restrictions that limit the scope of assistance to the DRC national government.
This panel will examine how to navigate the formidable barriers to access — the chaos, insecurity, and rampant community resistance in eastern DRC – in this next phase.
Panelists will include: Admiral Tim Ziemer, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID; Ella Watson-Stryker, Humanitarian Representative, Médecins Sans Frontières; and Jeremy Konyndyk, Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development
Moderator: J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
This event was made possible through the support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
While the world has seen tremendous improvement in the availability of life-saving vaccines, coverage rates have stagnated over the last decade. The U.S. government, a leading player in global immunization, is working with international organizations as they develop new strategies to accelerate progress toward global goals. On Friday, September 27th, CSIS will host a conference on global immunization to explore these issues. As a primer to that event, we take you back to a conversation from last winter between Nellie Bristol and Dr. Orin Levine, Director of Global Delivery Programs and former Director of Vaccine Delivery for the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Levine joined us on this episode of Take as Directed to discuss new innovations in achieving equity, increasing demand for immunization, and reaching the unreached with vaccines to secure the health and stability of all populations.
In this episode, Steve Morrison, Sara Allinder, and Andrew Schwartz discuss UNAIDS and the selection of Winnie Byanyima as its new executive director. The AIDS 2020 hosts discuss what is at stake for her tenure from fixing an internal leadership crisis to redefining the organization’s role in the HIV/AIDS response amid shifts in global health priorities and calls for significant United Nations reform.
The population of Africa is expected to double over the next 20 years, which means that many countries are facing either a demographic dividend or potentially a disaster, with critical implications for global health and development. In this episode of Take as Directed, Janet Fleischman sits down with Amb. Mark Dybul, Director of the Center for Global Health and Quality, and Professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, and formerly head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. They discuss why these demographic trends matter and how U.S. programs can better engage young people, especially adolescent girls and young women, to address their needs and support local innovation.
In this episode, Sara Allinder sits down with Jen Kates, Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health and HIV Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. The two discuss the upcoming Global Fund replenishment, where Kates serves as an Alternate Board Member, and the AIDS 2020 conference, for which Kates is on the Governing Council.
At the end of June, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, approved their new “5.0” strategy for 2021-2025, with an ambitious set of priorities for this new phase. In this episode of Take as Directed, Nellie Bristol sits down with Amanda Glassman, Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development, and Katherine Bliss, Senior Fellow with the Global Health Policy Center, to discuss these changes and their implications for the broader immunization landscape beyond 2020.
In this episode, Sara Allinder speaks with Gunilla Carlsson, the acting Executive Director for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS). The two discuss the process of finding a new Executive Director for UNAIDS, the fast track goals coming due on World AIDS Day 2020, and the state of the global HIV pandemic.
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