Summary

At the 9th annual conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), USAID’s Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD) Project led a satellite session on Creating Incentives for Greater University Engagement in Global Health Implementation Science. The half-day session consisted of three high-level panels of global health university and non-university stakeholders on the challenges with, and models and potential strategies for enhancing the participation of academic institutions in implementation science. Here are the panelist bios for each session.

Panel 1: An academic perspective on the challenges with university engagement in global health implementation science

• Asri Adisasmita, Panel Chair (Vice Dean for Resource, Venture and General Administration, Universitas Indonesia)
• Dilys Walker (PI, East Africa Preterm Birth Initiative, Professor, FACOG, University of California, San Francisco)
• Denis Nash (Executive Director, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, City University of New York)
• Rajesh Vedanthan (Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
• David Peters (Professor and Edgar Berman Chair in International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health)

• Laura Reichenbach, Panel Chair (Director, BREAKTHROUGH Research, Population Council)
• Shang-Ju Li (Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Americares)
• Joe Thomas (Executive Director, Partners in Population and Development)
• Montasser Kamal (Program Leader, Maternal and Child Health Team, International Development Research Centre)
• Scott Ratzan (President, AB InBev Foundation)
• Stefan Peterson (Chief of Health, UNICEF)

• Stefano Bertozzi, Panel Chair (Dean, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley)
• Ayman El-Mohandes (Dean, School of Public Health, City University of New York)
• Sabina Faiz Rashid (Dean, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University)
• Agustin Kusumayati (Dean, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia)
• Iman Nuwayhid (Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
• Jimmy Volmink (Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University)