Meet Our Speakers
Chris Collins, MPP
President and CEO, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
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Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH
Board of Directors, OpenAI and former CEO of the Gates Foundation
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Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital
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Eric Goosby, MD
Director, UCSF Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, and former U.S. Global Aids Coordinator
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Daudi Jjingo, PhD, MRes
Director, African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Makerere University
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Martin Lajous Loaeza, MD, DSc
Adjunct Professor, Department of Global and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Address Malata, FAAN, PhD, MSc
Vice Chancellor, Malawi University of Science and Technology and UCSF 2024–2025 Presidential Chair Awardee
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Payam Nahid, MD, MPH
Executive Director of IGHS and Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis
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John Nkengasong, PhD, MSc
Executive Director for Higher Education, Collaboratives, and Strategic Initiatives at the Mastercard Foundation and former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
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Ha Phan, MD, DrPh
Director, Center for Promotion of Advancement of Society, Trial Manager for UCSF Center for TB in Vietnam
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Mamphela Ramphele, MBChB, PhD
2025–2026 IGHS Visiting Professor, South African anti-apartheid activist, political leader, physician, and academic
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Mike Reid, MD
Chief Science Officer for PEPFAR in the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the US State Department
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Ismènia Simbine, MD
Thoracic Surgery Resident, Ministry of Health of Mozambique/Maputo Central Hospital, CHESA Fellow (2023-24)
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Edna Tallam-Kimaiyo, PhD, RN, MPH
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Nursing Council of Kenya
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