Global Health ForumHope Through Healing Hands is sponsoring a Global Health Forum at Florida International University on Thursday, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Former Senate Majority Leader and Hope Through Healing Hands Founder and Chairman Senator Bill Frist, M.D. is a featured guest speaker and will be joined by panelists Jenny Eaton Dyer, Hope Through Healing Hands Executive Director, and Porter Kyle Delaney, Hope Through Healing Hands Senior Advisor.

The forum will focus on maternal, newborn and child health, global healthcare access, global health policy and advocacy among other important topics. Please find the program for the event below.

RSVP here by Thursday, April 2 to reserve your spot.

Registration | 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks | 10:30 - 10:35 a.m.

Speaker: Dr. Mark B. Rosenberg, President, FIU

Morning Keynote | 10:35 - 11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Dr. William H. Frist, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader

Panel One | 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Title: Global Health Leadership: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Moderator: Tom Walsh, Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy,

Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Panel Members:

Jenny Dyer, Executive Director, Hope Through Healing Hands

Purnima Madhivanan, Professor, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, FIU

JoAnne Youngblut, Professor, Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences, FIU

Lunch Served | 11:50 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Luncheon Keynote | 12:15 – 12:55 p.m.

Title: Health Priorities in Haiti

Speakers:

Dr. William H. Frist, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader

Dr. Florence Duperval Guillaume, Ministre de la Sante? Publique et de la Population, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Panel Two | 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Title: Health Priorities in Latin America: Global Healthcare Access

Moderator: Kalai Mathee, Director, Global Health Consortium Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, FIU

Panel Members:

Alejandro Arrieta, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, FIU

Mariana Baum, Professor, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, FIU

Jessy Devieux, Research Associate Professor, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, FIU

Madhavan Nair, Distinguished Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, FIU

Panel Three | 2:00 – 2:55 p.m.

Title: Global Health Policy and Advocacy

Remarks: Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Chief Strategy Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Moderator: Dr. Luther Brewster, Assistant Professor, Chief of the Division of
Policy and Community Development, and Community Director for Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP
TM, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, FIU

Panel Members:

Porter DeLaney, Founding Partner, Kyle House Group

Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Chief Strategy Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Terriah Proechel, Regional Advocacy Coordinator, Policy and Advocacy Unit, CARE USA

Tom Walsh, Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Closing Remarks

Speaker:

Dr. Mark Williams, Interim Dean, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, FIU