W. Kamau Bell

Emmy & Peabody Award-winning TV Host, Filmmaker, Comedian, and Author

Calvin Chiu, PhD

Assistant Professor, UCSF Institute for Health & Aging

Haile Debas, MD

Founding Executive Director, IGHS and Chancellor Emeritus, UCSF

Amelia Deitchman, PharmD, PhD

Co-Director, UCSF Drug Research Unit

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH

Board of Directors, OpenAI and former CEO of the Gates Foundation

Gina Fromer, PhD

President and CEO, GLIDE

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital

Bill Gates

Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy

Eric Goosby, MD

Director, UCSF Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, and former U.S. Global Aids Coordinator

Sam Hawgood, MBBS

Chancellor, UCSF

Devan Jaganath, MD, MPH

Pediatric TB Chair, UCSF Center for Tuberculosis

Daudi Jjingo, PhD, MRes

Director, African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Makerere University

Martin Lajous Loaeza, MD

Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population, Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Address Malata, FAAN, PhD, MSc

Vice Chancellor, Malawi University of Science and Technology and UCSF 2024–2025 Presidential Chair Awardee

Payam Nahid, MD, MPH

Executive Director of IGHS and Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis

John Nkengasong, PhD, MSc

Executive Director for Higher Education, Collaboratives, and Strategic Initiatives at the Mastercard Foundation and former U.S. Global Aids Coordinator

Ally Olotu, MD, DPhil

Senior Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute

Julius Oyugi, PhD, MSc

Director of ENGAGE and Professor, University of Nairobi

Nisarg Patel, MD, DMD, MS

Assitant Professor, UCSF School of Dentistry

Sumeet Patil, PhD

CEO and Founding Research Director, NEERMAN

Ha Phan, MD, DrPh

Director, Center for Promotion of Advancement of Society, Trial Manager for UCSF Center for TB in Vietnam

Mamphela Ramphele, MBChB, PhD

2025–2026 IGHS Visiting Professor, South African anti-apartheid activist, political leader, physician, and academic

Mike Reid, MD

Chief Science Officer for PEPFAR in the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the US State Department

Ismènia Simbine, MD

Thoracic Surgery Resident, Ministry of Health of Mozambique/Maputo Central Hospital, CHESA Fellow (2023-24)

Edna Tallam, PhD, RN, MPH

Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Nursing Council of Kenya

Dilys Walker, MD

Director, UCSF IGHS Center for Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Meet Our Speakers

W. Kamau Bell

Calvin Chiu, PhD

Haile Debas, MD

Amelia Deitchman, PharmD, PhD

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH

Gina Fromer, PhD

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

Bill Gates

Eric Goosby, MD

Sam Hawgood, MBBS

Devan Jaganath, MD, MPH

Daudi Jjingo, PhD, MRes

Martin Lajous Loaeza, MD

Address Malata, FAAN, PhD, MSc

Payam Nahid, MD, MPH

John Nkengasong, PhD, MSc

Ally Olotu, MD, DPhil

Julius Oyugi, PhD, MSc

Nisarg Patel, MD, DMD, MS

Sumeet Patil, PhD

Ha Phan, MD, DrPh

Mamphela Ramphele, MBChB, PhD

Mike Reid, MD

Ismènia Simbine, MD

Edna Tallam, PhD, RN, MPH

Dilys Walker, MD