Accessible - Bios Compiled

2024

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Ambassador Juan José Gómez-Camacho

Senior Fellow

School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University

Amb. Juan José Gómez-Camacho is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, as well as a member of the teaching faculty of SAIS. Most recently he served as Ambassador of Mexico to Canada.

Prior to his current assignment he served as Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore and concurrently to the Union of Myanmar and the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam (2006-2009); Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations based in Geneva, Switzerland (2009-2013); Ambassador to the European Union as well as to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (2013-2016); and Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (2016-2019).

He is regarded as one of the most influential, experienced Mexican diplomats, and is widely recognized for his strong leadership and for his analytical and negotiation skills. During his 30-year diplomatic career, he has played a key role in addressing and providing solutions to diverse and increasingly complex global challenges, both political and economic, for which government-centered only alternatives are proving insufficient. Some of his major achievements include the conclusion of breakthrough international agreements on emerging global health challenges; the adoption of the first ever Global Deal on International Migration; the successful negotiation of the framework of the New Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Union. Other important accomplishments include the negotiation and development of significant US-Mexico border infrastructures; and the design and implementation of the present Mexican foreign policy and legislation on Human Rights and Democracy.

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The Honourable Dr. Keith Martin MD, PC

Founding Executive Director

Consortium of Universities for Global Health

Dr. Martin is a physician who, since September 2012, has served as the founding Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Between 1993-2011, Dr. Martin served as a Member of Parliament in Canada’s House of Commons. He held portfolios in foreign affairs, health, the environment, defense and international development. He has been on many diplomatic missions in areas in crisis around the world but particularly across Africa and worked as a physician on the Mozambique border during their civil war. He has spent many years volunteering on conservation efforts in South Africa and is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.

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Kevin A. Klock, JD

Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer,

and General Council

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

Adjunct Professor and Scholar

O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Kevin A. Klock joined the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in October 2015 and serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. In addition to providing overall leadership of the Foundation’s corporate infrastructure and legal strategy, he is co-Chair of WHO Collaborating Center Support for New Coordinating Mechanisms, a series of high-level consortia that provide technical advice and learnings to inform the World Health Organization, policymakers, and the public as a pandemic treaty is negotiated.

Klock holds an appointment at Georgetown University as Adjunct Professor and Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He writes and teaches at the intersection of global health, public and corporate governance, and public-private partnerships. He has published in the Journal for the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Hastings Center Reports, and others. Klock was formerly Head of Governance and Assistant Secretary for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance where he played a key role to stand up the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm). Prior to this he was with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), which provides research and education to corporate boards.

Klock received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown and is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Duke University, received his M.A. from American University, and was Lord Rothermere Scholar at Oxford University.

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Alexandra Finch, LLM

Associate

O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Georgetown University

Adjunct Professor of Law

Georgetown University Law Center

Alexandra Finch is an associate at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Finch’s work and scholarship focus on global health governance, law, and policy.

Before joining the O’Neill Institute, Finch worked at the United Nations in the Office of the Victims’ Rights Advocate where she focused on developing tools to address sexual exploitation and abuse, and sexual harassment within United Nations system organizations. She previously worked as a solicitor at a leading law firm in Sydney advising on the regulation of therapeutic goods and foods, COVID-19 public health orders, and acting for victims of sexual harassment, domestic violence, and unfair work practices on a pro bono basis.

Finch holds a Bachelor of Arts in French, a Bachelor of Laws, and a Master of Laws in health law from the University of Sydney.

Panel 2

Mai Hijazi, PhD

Director of the Office of Health Systems

Bureau for Global Health, USAID

Dr. Mai Hijazi is the Director of USAID’s Office of Health Systems in the Bureau for Global Health where she leads efforts to support integrated health systems programming in support of advancing UHC, primary health care and health systems resilience. She previously served in USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS as Division Chief for the Systems and Program Sustainability Division, where her work under PEPFAR focused on advancing USAID’s role for health systems strengthening for HIV sustained epidemic control, leadership and programmatic coordination for the PEPFAR-funded Sustainable Financing Initiative and USAID's Local Partner Transition initiative. Prior to joining the Office of HIV/AIDS in 2009, Mai served as a Health Development Officer in the GH Bureau’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, where she supported programs globally in the areas of policy, finance and advocacy for family planning and reproductive health. She joined USAID in 1997 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow with a Ph.D. in biomedical science.

Panel 2

Moritz Piatti

Senior Economist

World Bank

Moritz is a Senior Economist at the World Bank working at the nexus of public finance and health. He is interested in how public financial management reforms can be an enabling force for efficient, and equitable service delivery. His work is currently focused on reforms in the Africa region where he leads various analytical programs that include how to deploy disruptive technology solutions. During his time at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, Moritz led various evaluations of World Bank support to public financial management reforms and has written extensively on what makes financial management information systems effective.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Moritz worked as an advisor to the government of Zanzibar/Tanzania, where he supported authorities in budget management and the introduction of health finance reforms. Moritz holds an MSc in Economics for Development from Oxford University and an MA in Economics from the University of Aberdeen.

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Natalia Houghton, MS

Specialist in Health Systems Evaluation and Policy

Pan American Health Organization

Natalia Houghton is a specialist in health systems evaluation and policy. Currently based in Washington DC, she works with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). With over 15 years of experience in international health policies and public health, her focus is on evaluating and strengthening governance capacities to enhance access to health interventions, reduce inequities, and improve the performance of health systems based on Primary Health Care. In her current role, Natalia provides support to member states in evaluating and strengthening stewardship and governance through the renewed approach of the Essential Public Health Functions. She also contributes to the analysis and identification of policy options to address barriers to health access faced by vulnerable populations. Additionally, she offers technical cooperation to enhance institutional capacities and governance in public health, while working to improve the resilience of health systems through monitoring, evaluation, and policy analysis.

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Mike Reid, MD

Chief Science Officer

Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy U.S. Department of State

Dr. Mike Reid is Chief Science Officer in the US Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD) – PEPFAR. Dr. Reid is a practicing Infectious Disease physician with 15 years experience in academic global health. He has published over 100 publications, mostly related to HIV, TB, and COVID-19 implementation science research in diverse settings in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Steven Harvey, PhD

Associate Professor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Professor Steven Harvey is a social scientist whose research delves into the intricate relationship between public health interventions and the sociocultural, economic, and political contexts that shape their success. With a deep understanding that health is often just one of many priorities for beneficiary communities, Prof. Harvey explores how factors like peer pressure, infrastructure, and climate interplay with interventions aimed at promoting behaviors like mosquito net usage or HIV testing. His principal contexts have been malaria and maternal health, focusing on developing culturally appropriate strategies and empowering community health workers across countries like Peru, Benin, Ghana, and Zambia. Prof. Harvey champions qualitative methods, particularly observation, to capture the nuances that interviews often miss.