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Keynote Speaker
Ian Frazer | Professor, office of the Provost, Affiliate Professor, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science |
Plenary Speakers
Helen Rees | Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (WRHI) of the University of Witwatersrand and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Virginia Barbour |
Executive Officer, Australian Open Access Support Group. Founding co-editor of PLOS Medicine, Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics |
Nick Thomson |
Faculty and group head within Pathogen Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Professor of Bacterial Genomics and Evolution in the department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, at the London School Of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. |
Scott McClelland | Professor, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington |
Yang Bin | Dean
of Guangdong Provincial Dermatology Hospital / Director
of Guangdong Provincial Centers for Skin Diseases and STI Control;
Professor of Jinan University, Guangdong Medical College, and Anhui
Medical University |
Raphael Valdivia | Associate Professor, Vice Dean for Basic Research, Duke University Medical Centre |
Jane Hocking | Deputy Director, Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society,University of Melbourne |
Kawango Agot | Founder and CEO of Impact Research & Development
Organization (IRDO) |
Ravi Verma | Regional director for the International Center for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India. |
Henry de Vries | MD PhD Professor, University of Amsterdam |
Mike Cohen | Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina |
Jo-Ann Passmore | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
Khalil Ghanem | John Hopkins University, USA |
Carlos Caceres | Cayetano Heredia University, Peru |
Debate Speakers
Andrew Francis-Tan |
Dr. Andrew Francis-Tan, associate professor of Economics and adjunct associate professor of Sociology at Emory University |
Paddy Horner | Consultant Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol |
John Saunders | Honorary Consultant, Public Health England |