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RECORDED VIDEO - Ebola Innovation for Impact 2015 - Game Change in Global Health Crisis Management

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Side Event in Support of the UN Secretary-General’s International Ebola Recovery Conference July 9-10 2015

United Nations Headquarters - Conference Room 3, 13.15-14.30 pm (1:15pm-2:30pm, ET), 10 July 2015

As a side-event in support of the United Nations Secretary-General’s International Ebola Recovery Conference, Ebola Innovation for Impact 2015: Game Change in Global Health Crisis Management will bring together thought leaders in global health and technology to stimulate creative, collaborative and catalytic action, and to address the Ebola crisis with innovative solutions in the key, inter-linked areas of: Community Engagement and Mobilization; Private Sector Contribution and Collaboration; Data Systems Strengthening and Coordination; and, Emergency Infrastructure and Logistics.

Speakers include:

Dr. Barbara Bentein, UNICEF

Dr. Arnaud Bernaert, World Economic Forum (WEF)

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google

Dr. Denis Gilhooly, Global Digital Health Initiative (GDHI)

Dr. Michael D. McDonald, Global Health Response & Resilience Alliance (GHRRA)

Mr. Alan Knight, ArcelorMittal and Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG)

Dr. Ruediger Krech, World Health Organization (WHO)

Ms. Yvonne MacPherson, BBC Media Action

Ambassador Tim Mawe, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations

Dr. David McLachlan-Karr, UN Resident Coordinator for Sierra Leone

Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General on Ebola

Mr. Stephen O’Brien, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Dr. Nii Quaynor, National Information Technology Agency of the Republic of Ghana

Dr. Scott Ratzan, Journal of Health Communications

Dr. Paul Stoffels, Johnson & Johnson

Dr. Wendy Taylor, USAID Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact

Mr. Jeffrey Wright, Actor and Founder, Ebola Survival Fund

Organized by

Global Digital He@lth Initiative

Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG)

Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance (GHRRA)

Permanent Mission of the Government of Ireland to the United Nations

In Cooperation with the Global Ebola Response Coalition (GERC)

RSVP: EbolaInnovation4Impact@gmail.com - Live and On-demand Webcast coverage to be available on the UN Web TV website at: http://webtv.un.org

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RECORDED VIDEO - Ebola Innovation for Impact 2015 - Game Change in Global Health Crisis Management

http://webtv.un.org/watch/global-ebola-response-coalition-gerc/4348682551001

Ebola Innovation for Impact 2015 - Game Change in Global Health Crisis Management (3 page .PDF file)

http://ebolaresponse.un.org/sites/default/files/ebola_innovation_for_impact_2015_july_10.pdf

International Ebola Recovery Conference, 9-10 July 2015

https://ebolaresponse.un.org/recovery-conference

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