Switzerland
Executive Director
March 2011- July 2015
Geneva Health Forum
Hospitals of the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Based in Geneva.
What?
Sector
Where
When
With Whom
Sector?
Global Health
What?
Dialogue Management, Strategic Communication, Strategic Planning, Strategic Partnerships
Where?
Switzerland
Why?
The Geneva Health Forum is not just another conference on health. By looking to the future, it brings vision and thrives on all participants’ unique experiences and in depth insights on topics and initiatives generated and implemented all over the world. At the GHF it is believed that pooling intelligence will bring value and challenge common ideas to explore new territories of frethinking and build on inter-sectorial approaches to solving the problems of our time.
The Geneva Health Forum is not just another conference on health. By looking to the future, it brings vision and thrives on all participants’ unique experiences and in depth insights on topics and initiatives generated and implemented all over the world. At the GHF it is believed that pooling intelligence will bring value and challenge common ideas to explore new territories of freethinking and build on inter-sectorial approaches to solving the problems of our time.
When?
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
What Exactly?
I mapped, negotiated and implemented a three-tier partnerships strategy for the sustainability of the Geneva Health Forum (Content, Thematic and Geographic partnerships). This involves establishing Public-Private partnership arrangements without jeopardizing credibility. More about the GHF can be read on it’s website www.genevahealthforum.org
With Whom?
HUG, Swiss Ministry
What Happened?
Over the last four years the reach of the GHF has multiplied and it has established itself as an important event on the global health calendar. It attracts close to one thousand practitioners, academia and policy makers to Geneva to search for solutions in health.
Sector?
Global Health
What?
Strategic Communication
Where?
Switzerland
Why?
Geneva is the home of the UN, and with nearly 250 international and local NGOs, it is the global heart of the humanitarian action and multilateral diplomacy. Boston University, Boston MA, USA runs a Public Health program in Geneva. Students from BU and their partner universities such as Cornel, John’s Hopkins, Duke, Providence and LeHeigh come to Geneva to participate in the two courses- Principles of International Health and Controversies in International Health and simultaneously do an internship at an international organization.
When?
2015, 2016, 2017
What Exactly?
I have designed the content of the two modules- Principles of International Health and Controversies in International Health and deliver them to students over four months. The course Principles of International Health is delivered at the premises of the University of Geneva.
With Whom?
Boston University, University Of Geneva
What Happened?
Students are exposed to the making and shaping of global health policies
Participants gain an appreciation for the wide circle of ‘actors’ involved in influencing health and health outcomes
Students gain an understanding of the main drivers of health in the global south and how these are shaped
Formerly Program Director
Geneva Health Forum