Opening Ceremony
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
WHO Director-General
Dr. Jean Kaseya
Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Ms. Mireille Wenger
Western Cape Provincial Minister of Health and Wellness, South Africa
Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi
Minister of Health of South Africa
Plenary 1: Inequity and Health
Prof. Wanga Zembe
Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical and School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape
Dr. Rômulo Paes De Sousa
Brazilian Association of Collective Health - ABRASCO
Prof. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions
Plenary 2: Economics of Democracy and Public Health
Ms. Asma Khan
Founder and Owner of Darjeeling Express
Dr. Mohamed Janabi
Director of the World Health Organization African Region
Prof Sônia Fleury
Strategic Studies Center/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (CEE/FIOCRUZ).
Plenary 3: International Law and Global Treaties in Public Health
Prof. Gorik Ooms
Professor, Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Dr. Precious Matsoso
Director of the Health Regulatory Science Platform, a division of the Wits Health Consortium
Ms. Fatima Hassan
Director: Health Justice Initiative (HJI) South Africa
Prof. Flavia Senkubuge
Dean and Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Plenary 4: Primary Health Care, Public Health Systems for Equity and Universal Access
Prof. Tasleem Ras
Head of Department: Family, Community and Emergency Care (FaCE). Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
Prof Aylene Bousquat
Department of Politics, Management and Health at the Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP) - Brazil
Plenary 5: Public Health in Conflict, War and Peace Building
Dr. Samah El-Boraei
South African Healthcare workers for Palestine and the Healthcare Workers against xenophobia
Dr. Sally Wambui Ndung'u
Kenya Association of Physicians and Medical Workers for Social Responsibility (KAPMWSR)
Prof. Amira Osman
Architecture And City Planning Are Public Health Risks: Displacement, Migration, Homelessness And Well-Being
Dr Anna Mutavati
Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa at UN Women
Plenary 6: Restoring Balance: Indigenous Knowledge Systems & Decolonising Global Health
Associate Profesor Sacha Mcmeeking
Shift the Dial Impact Lab
Prof. Mmatshilo Motsei
Founder and Executive Director of Afrika Ikalafe Pluriversity
Plenary 7: One Health in a Changing World
Dr. Jeni Miller
Executive Director of Global Climate and Health Alliance
Prof. Salim Abdool Karim
Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
Plenary 8: Imagining the Future of Public Health
Prof. Tollulah Oni
CEO, UrbanBetter and Clinical Professor, University of Cambridge
Dr. Duha Shellah
Chair of WFPHA Public Health in Emergencies and Disasters working group
Dr. Alessandro Berionni
MD, Specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Young WFPHA
Closing ceremony
Mr. Lance Louskieter
Tekano Health Equity South Africa, Division of Health Policy and Systems, school of Public Health, UCT
Dr. Nand A. Marshall
DrPH, CHES, CLC, CDE. President, American Public Health Association. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University
Federica Castellana, MPH,MSc
Programme Coordinator Africa, Italian Red Cross Secretary, Young WFPHA