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Dr Cherian Varghese

Cross-cutting lead, NCD and special initiatives, WHO, Geneva

Dr Cherian Varghese works as the cross-cutting lead for NCDs and special initiatives including cervical cancer elimination initiative in WHO, Geneva

He has worked across WHO offices at country, region and headquarters levels of WHO since 2001. From 2015 he worked in WHO, Geneva as coordinator for NCD management and established the WHO NCD department in 2019.

Dr Varghese developed the WHO HEARTS package and updated WHO PEN for primary care in addition to introducing initiatives for diabetes and childhood cancer.

He has postgraduate medical qualifications in radiation oncology and health management from India. He also holds an MPhil, and PhD in epidemiology from Cambridge, UK, and Tampere, Finland.

He is a recipient of the Norman Campbell Excellence Award in Population Hypertension Prevention and Control, WHO Western Pacific Region team award and fellowships from UICC and IARC.

He has more than 90 publications in the field of NCDs.

Speakers

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization

H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada

President of Costa Rica

H.E. Sun Chunlan

Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China

Hon Grant Robertson

Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand

H.E Alfredo Enrique Borrero Vega

Vice President of Equador

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai

H. E. Dr Lotay Tshering

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan

Dr Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Mr Martin Chungong

Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Prof. Ilona Kickbusch

The founding director and chair of the Global Health Centre and the Co-Chair of a project on a pandemic treaty at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab

Deputy Director General of WHO, Geneva

Dr Rüdiger Krech

Director, Department of Health Promotion, WHO

Hannah Vaughan Jones

Emmy-nominated journalist, broadcaster, writer and host.

H.E. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Acting Minister of Health, Arab Republic of Egypt

Dr Faten Ben Abdelaziz

Head of the Enhanced Well-being Unit in the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization Headquarters

Sandro Galea

MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, USA

Mark Kojo Atuahene

Acting Head of Public Health and Health Promotion Unit of the Ministry of Health

Professor Marco Ackerman

Faculdade de Saúde pública da USP, and CEPEDOC , Brazil

Dra Alejandra Acuña

Executive Secretary Health Ministries Council of Central America, Dominican Republic

Dr Supreda Adulyanon

Chief Executive Officer, ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation

Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais

Minister of Health, United Arab Emirates

Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari

WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean

Hon. Dr Ahmed bin Mohamed Al-Saidi

Minister of Health of Oman

Dr Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Thani

Director of Public Health, Qatar

Dr Graham Alabaster

Head of Geneva Office, UN Habitat, Geneva Office

Prof. Margaret M. Barry

President of IUHPE, Director of the WHO CC for Health Promotion Research, National University of Ireland Galway

Anies Rasyid Baswedan

Governor of Jakarta Province, Indonesia

Juan Luís Bermúdez

Minister for Human Development and Social Inclusion, Costa Rica

Dr Roberto Bertollini

Advisor to the Minister of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health Qatar

Iris Martine Blom

IFMSA Liaison Officer to WHO, The Netherlands

Professor Unaisi Nabobo Baba

Fiji National University

Dr Chiva Giurca Bogdan

Collaborator, National Academy for Social Prescribing, UK

Ms. Marie-Aimée Boury

Head of Impact Based Finance at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, and Chair, Finance Advisory Board, UAE “SDGs inaction” campaign

Dr Christine Brown

WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development

Prof. Paulo Buss

Director of the Center for Global Health at FIOCRUZ, Brazil

Prof. Linda Cambon

Population Health Research Center Université de Bordeaux, France

Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Team lead, Climate Change and Health

Camila Castro

Secretary of Women of the Federation of agricultural workers of the state of Para, Brazil

Patrick Child

Deputy Director General, European Commission, DG Environment

Dan Chisholm

Senior Technical Officer WHO/MSD

Dr Morseda Chowdhury

Director Health, Nutrition and Population, BRAC

Rt Hon. Helen Clark

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, PMNCH Board Chair, Co-Chair of the WHO’s Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Francesca Colombo

Head of the Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Dr Myrna Cunningham

President of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC)

Dr. Austin Demby

Minister of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone

Dr Roopa Dhatt

Executive Director, Women in Global Health

Hon. Dr Estela Diaz

Minister of Women, Gender Policies and sexual Diversity, Argentina

Sharon Dijksma

Mayor of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Dr Rohit Doon

Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago

Dr Carlos Dora

President, International Society for urban health

Dr Gerry Eijkemans

Unit Chief, Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health, WHO/PAHO/AMRO

Mohamed Eissa

IFMSA Liason Officer for Public Health Issues

Prof. Ronit Endevelt

Head of the Nutrition Division- Ministry of Health, Israel

Dr Carissa Etienne

WHO Regional Director for the Americas (WHO/PAHO/AMRO)

Morenike Fajemisin

CEO and Founder of Whispa, South Africa

H.E. Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle

State Minister of Primary Health Services, Epidemics, and COVID Disease Control, Sri Lanka

Dr Sarita Friman

Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

Dr Suvajee Good

Regional Advisor Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization (WHO)-Regional Office for South-East Asia

Dr Margo Greenwood

Academic leader National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, Canada

Dr Eduardo Guerrero

ex-vice Minister of Health, El Salvador

Dr Nila Heredia

Bolivian leader and advocate for the buen-vivir notion, former Minister of Health and Sports and former Executive Secretary of ORAS-CONHU

Djavila Ho

Associate Clinical Psychologist, Jamaica

Jane Hutt MS

Minister for Social Justice, Wales

Hon. Kailesh Kumar Singh Jagutpal

Minister of Health, Mauritius

Dr Somchai Jitsuchon

Director of the Center for Sufficiency Education, the Yuwasathirakun Foundation, Thailand

Gareth Jones

Consultant, Youth Coordination Programme Support, UNAIDS, United Kingdom

Bernard Kadasia

President at the Alliance for Health Promotion

Wangdi Karma

Chief Research Officer, Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies

Hatem Ben Kedim

Chief of Staff, Municipality of Tunis

Mr. Tanel Kiik

Minister of Health, Estonia

Mr. Ulrik Knudsen

Deputy Secretary-General, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Dr Mihály Kökény

MD, PhD, Former Minister for Health, Hungary, Lecturer, Dept. of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Helena Leurent

Director General, Consumers International

Dr Vivian Lin

Executive Associate Dean, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China

Austin Liu

Independent policy analyst, Author of a policy brief on Social and Economic Response to COVID-19

Lord Mayor of Kampala

Uganda and founding Leadership Board Member of the Mayors Migration Council

Dr Emmanuel Luyirika

Executive Director, African Palliative Care Association, Uganda

Dr Stephen Mac Feely

Director of Data & Analytics, WHO

Lina Mahy

Technical Officer, WHO Department Nutrition and Food Safety

Simon Manley

CMG, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, UK Mission to the WTO, UN and Other International Organisations (Geneva)

Sir Michael Marmot

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London

Julieta Martinez

Founder, Tremendas Collaborative Platform, Chile

Maziko Matemvu

Vice-President, Young Feminists Network, Malawi

Prof. Mariana Mazzucato

Chair, WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, and Professor, University College London

Gerry McCartney

Professor of Wellbeing Economy at the University of Glasgow

Dr Susan Mercado

Director, Food Systems and Resiliency, Hawaii Public Health Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii

Dr Bente Mikkelsen

Director, Noncommunicable Diseases in the division of UHC/Communicable and Noncommunicable diseases, World Health Organization Headquarters (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Jamie Morrison

Director, Food Systems and Food Safety Division, Food and Agriculture Organization

Dr Suzy Morrissey

Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland

Dr Alicia Munoz

Dirigente (leader) de ANAMURI, National Association of rural and indigenous women, Chile

Dr Pem Namgyal

Director Programme Management, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia

Dr Sulakshana Nandi

Co-chair, People’s Health Movement Global India

Roger Mbassa Ndine

Mayor of Douala, Cameroon

Desmond Nji

Cameroon Youth Network, Cameroon

Prof. Baridalyne Nongkynrih

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Anders Nordström

Global Ambassador for Health, UN Policy Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swede

Donghyun Park

Principal Economist, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, Asian Development Bank

Professor Muhammad Paté

Harvard University, Chan School of Public Health

Sheela Patel

Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC) India

Soumitra Pathare

Director, Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, India

Dr Poorvaprabha Patil

Regional Focal Point for SDG 3 at the UN Major Group for Children and Youth

Michael Pietrus

Director, Opening Minds, Mental Health Commission of Canada

Gonzalo Pizarro

Co-chair UN Local2030 Coalition, UNDP

Dr Prof. Xing Qu

Deputy Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Dr Kumanan Rasanathan

Unit Head, Equity and Health, WHO

Prof. Hoda Rashad

Director, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Dr Sabine Rashid

Dean and Professor, BRAC School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh

Dr Mihi Ratima

Director of Taumata Associates (a Māori public health consultancy)

Prof. Kate Raworth

Senior Associate, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and Professor of Practice, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Dr Shahra Razavi

Director of Social Protection Department, ILO

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy

President, Public Health Foundation of India

Dr Nathalie Röbbel

Head, Urban Health, WHO

Ines Rodriguez

Global Lead for Social Protection Delivery System, the World Bank

Nojus Saad

Founder, Youth for Women Foundation, Iraq

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

Director of the  Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Yvonne Aki Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

Dr Trevor Hancock

Retired Professor and Senior Scholar School of Public Health and Social Policy University of Victoria

Java Sealy

CARICOM Youth Ambassador, Barbados

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Founder of the Art of Living Foundation

Khazana Sihwaya

Founder, 2030 Nutrition Project, Zambia

Colin Sindall

Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia

Dr Rômulo Paes de Sousa

Senior Investigator, Fiocruz, Brazil

Dr Markku Tervahauta

Director General, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

Prof. Mauricio Torres-Tovar

Academic Department of Public Health, National University of Colombia and representative ALAMES, Colombia

Dr Katherine Trebeck

Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Ms Bjørg Sandkjær

Deputy Minister for International Development

Marinel Ubaldo

Climate activist, Philippines

Dr Juan Pablo Uribe

Director Global Health, Nutrition and Population and Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents, World Bank

Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge

WHO Regional Director for Europe

Dr Cherian Varghese

Cross-cutting lead, NCD and special initiatives, WHO, Geneva

Dr Sabine Vuik

Health policy analyst, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Kristian Wahlbeck

Director of Development MIEL Mental Health, Finland

Dr David Watkins

University of Washington, USA

Nick Watts

Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS England

Dr Naoko Yamamoto

Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage/ Healthier Populations, WHO, Geneva

Dr Soon-Young Yoon

Chair of the Board, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), UN representative for the International Alliance of Women