Agenda
Below is the final agenda for the OxHA summit.
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Thursday 16 April
Morning
| 09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:30 | Welcome and introduction | Professor David Matthews, OxHA Board Member |
| 09:45 | Session 1: The three risk factors
Tobacco: Dr Samira Asma, CDC Global Tobacco Control Office on Smoking and Health, USA Diet: Dr Susan Jebb, MRC Head of Nutrition Physical activity: Dr Michael Pratt, Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, CDC |
Chair: Dr Fiona Adshead, Director, Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, WHO |
| 10:30 | Tea / coffee | |
| 11:00 | Session 2: Research | |
| 11:00 | Community Interventions for Health Methodology, early results and lessons learned |
Chair: Professor Stephen MacMahon, The George Institute, Australia
Dr Denise Stevens and Fiona Wong, MATRIX Public Health Solutions Professor K.R. Thankappan, |
| 12:00 | Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative | Dr Richard Smith, Executive Director, Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative
Professor Alejandro Cravioto, Executive Director, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Afternoon
| 13.30 | Session 3: Action in progress | Chair: Professor Siân Griffiths, OBE, Director, School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 13:30 | The polypill story | Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, UK
Professor Denis Xavier, St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore Dr Anthony Rodgers, Professorial Fellow, George Institute for International Health, Australia |
| 14:45 | International NGOs | Chair: Ms Lise Kingo, Executive Vice-President and Chief of Staffs, Novo Nordisk A/S
Dr Tom Glynn, Cancer Science and Trends Director, International Cancer Control, American Cancer Society Ms Ann Keeling, CEO, International Diabetes Federation Dr Jeya Wilson, CEO, World Heart Federation |
| 15:30 | Tea / coffee | |
| 16:00 | Session 3: Action in progress, cont. | |
| What role is industry playing? Contributions from the food, insurance and pharmaceutical industries |
Chair: Dr Diane Finegood, Executive Director, The CAPTURE Project, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Mr Viggo Birch, European Vice President and Managing Director, Novo Nordisk UK and Ireland Mr Tal Gilbert, Head of Research & Development, PruHealth, UK Mr Jonathan Horrell, Director of Corporate Affairs, Kraft Foods UK and Ireland, and business4Life steering |
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| 17:00 | Session 4: Resources | Chair: Dr Derek Yach, Vice-President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo, and OxHA Board Member |
| 17:00 | Trends in spending on chronic diseases relative to other global health issues Comments by David Stuckler and Rajaie Batniji, who recently published a Lancet paper on global health spending |
Dr Rachel Nugent, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC |
| 17:45 | Grand Challenges / Global Partnership Progress on the Grand Challenges and global engagement |
Professor Stig Pramming |
| 18:15 | Concluding remarks | Dr Derek Yach |
Evening
| 19:00 | Grand dinner, Trinity College, Oxford, hosted by Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University, and OxHA Chairman |