Trading Profits for Healthcare Equality - Speaker & Moderator Bios
Dr. Jaime Bayona is the Director of Global Health Programs and
Practice for the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. He joined
Dartmouth from Peru where he was the co-founder and director of Socios En Salud
Sucursal Peru (SES), the Peruvian branch of Partners in Health (PIH). At SES,
Jaime served as the principal investigator for numerous NIH grants, oversaw a
staff of 120, managed relationships with government, and facilitated the
participation of students and research affiliates on various projects at the SES
site and throughout Peru. Dr. Bayona is considered one of the top experts in
MDR-TB programs and has consulted in over a dozen countries. He has held
appointments at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard
University as a lecturer and at the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham
and Women's Hospital as a research associate.
Dr. Vas Narasimhan recently became global head, vaccines development for Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. He is responsible for the clinical development of the vaccine pipeline with over 25 projects and nearly 100 annual global clinical trials. Previously, Vas was head, Novartis Vaccines North America and US country head for Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, during which he drove strong growth in the region, built a fully integrated organization that successfully launched Menveo (MenACWY), created new seasonal flu distribution channels, and executed pandemic influenza programs. Vas has served in roles of increasing responsibility at Novartis including as Vice President of US Marketing, Meningitis Franchise Head, Global Marketing, Menveo Brand Director and Head of Portfolio Strategy for the Office of the CEO at Novartis Pharma AG. He worked in the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products Practice at McKinsey & Co., consulting major pharmaceutical and healthcare companies on a range of initiatives, including large-scale M&A activity and top-level corporate strategy. Vas earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and obtained his MPP in International Health Care Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from University of Chicago.
Derek Yach has played a leading global role in many aspects of NCDs within the private, public and Foundation world for the last 2 decades. He is senior vice president of Global Health and Agricultural Policy at PepsiCo and leads new initiatives related to sustainable agriculture and nutrition in Africa. He has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, been Professor of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO). At the WHO he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland for Non Communicable Diseases and Mental Health where he led development of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity and WHO’s World Health Report on Mental Health. Dr. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles covering the breadth of global health. These include leading thought pieces within NCDs over the last 20 years. He serves on advisory boards of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Chicago Council on International Affairs’ Agricultural Development Initiative, the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture, the NIH’s Fogarty International Centre and the World Food Program USA. He is regular plenary speaker and moderator of global and national meetings related to health and development. Dr. Yach has degrees in medicine (Cape Town), public health (Johns Hopkins) and an honorary DSc from Georgetown University.
President Jim Yong Kim (Moderator) took office as the 17th president of Dartmouth College in July 2009. He is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO). He has dedicated himself to health and social justice work for more than two decades, helping to provide medical treatment to underserved populations worldwide. Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, President Kim held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He continues to serve on the board of PIH. Born in Seoul, Korea, President Kim moved to the United States at the age of five. He graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.
Dr. Vas Narasimhan recently became global head, vaccines development for Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. He is responsible for the clinical development of the vaccine pipeline with over 25 projects and nearly 100 annual global clinical trials. Previously, Vas was head, Novartis Vaccines North America and US country head for Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, during which he drove strong growth in the region, built a fully integrated organization that successfully launched Menveo (MenACWY), created new seasonal flu distribution channels, and executed pandemic influenza programs. Vas has served in roles of increasing responsibility at Novartis including as Vice President of US Marketing, Meningitis Franchise Head, Global Marketing, Menveo Brand Director and Head of Portfolio Strategy for the Office of the CEO at Novartis Pharma AG. He worked in the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products Practice at McKinsey & Co., consulting major pharmaceutical and healthcare companies on a range of initiatives, including large-scale M&A activity and top-level corporate strategy. Vas earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and obtained his MPP in International Health Care Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from University of Chicago.
Derek Yach has played a leading global role in many aspects of NCDs within the private, public and Foundation world for the last 2 decades. He is senior vice president of Global Health and Agricultural Policy at PepsiCo and leads new initiatives related to sustainable agriculture and nutrition in Africa. He has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, been Professor of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO). At the WHO he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland for Non Communicable Diseases and Mental Health where he led development of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity and WHO’s World Health Report on Mental Health. Dr. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles covering the breadth of global health. These include leading thought pieces within NCDs over the last 20 years. He serves on advisory boards of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Chicago Council on International Affairs’ Agricultural Development Initiative, the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture, the NIH’s Fogarty International Centre and the World Food Program USA. He is regular plenary speaker and moderator of global and national meetings related to health and development. Dr. Yach has degrees in medicine (Cape Town), public health (Johns Hopkins) and an honorary DSc from Georgetown University.
President Jim Yong Kim (Moderator) took office as the 17th president of Dartmouth College in July 2009. He is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO). He has dedicated himself to health and social justice work for more than two decades, helping to provide medical treatment to underserved populations worldwide. Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, President Kim held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He continues to serve on the board of PIH. Born in Seoul, Korea, President Kim moved to the United States at the age of five. He graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.