Advances & Challenges in the Fight Against Malaria: A 2000-2015 Retrospective

20 May 2015

Geneva, Switzerland

DNDi and MMV co-organized this event. A formal handover of DNDi‘s malaria projects to MMV took place.

Opening Remarks
Professor Marcel Tanner, Director, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Keynote Address
Dr Pedro Alonso, Director, Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization
15 Years of Malaria Control and Elimination – How far have we come? What lies ahead

Ministerial Panel, Chaired by Professor Marcel Tanner
H.E. Dr Kesete Birhan Admasu, Minister of Health, Ethiopia
Dr Ben Rolfe, Executive Secretary, APLMA
Dr James Banda, Senior Advisor RBM
Brigadier General (Dr) G Gwinji, Permanent Secretary for Health and Child Welfare, Republic of Zimbabwe
H. E. Dr Raymonde Goudou Coffie, Minister of Health and HIV/AIDS Programme, Côte d’Ivoire

Presentations

Dr Philippe Duneton, Deputy Executive Director UNITAID
UNITAID`s Role in the global response

Dr Robert Sebbag, Vice President Access to Medicines, Sanofi
A winning formula: Pharmaceutical partnerships in malaria drug development

Dr Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director, DNDi
Lessons learned from 10 years of ACT-FDC development [PDF | 1.1MB]

Dr David Reddy, Chief Executive Officer, MMV
The Global Malaria Portfolio: Where we stand today

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