Subject: O'Neill Institute Colloquium: The Future of the World Health Organization - Wednesday, Nov. 19 - 1:20-3:20pm
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O'Neill Institute Colloquium:

The Future of the World Health Organization

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

1:20 - 3:20 p.m.

Georgetown University Law Center
Faculty Dining Room, Hotung Room 2001
550 First Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Gian Luca Burci
General Counsel, World Health Organization
Mr. Burci has worked for WHO since June 1998, advising WHO's director-general and senior management team, as well as its governing bodies, on a broad range of international, constitutional and procedural issues. Mr Burci's work focuses on WHO's role in global health governance, its status under international law, and the interactions between WHO's normative and policy- setting functions and other areas of international law and policy. Among other achievements, he has been closely involved with the conclusion of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its recent Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, the revision and implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005), and the WHO reform. Since 2010, Mr Burci has been teaching a course on international health law at the Graduate Institute and collaborating on a joint degree in international law between the Graduate Institute and Georgetown University School of Law. Mr Burci is also a Senior Fellow at the Global Health Programme of the Graduate Institute.

Christine Sow
Executive Director, Global Health Council
Dr. Christine Sow is an internationally-recognized advocate for global health, with more than 20 years of US and international leadership experience, especially in improving women's and girls' quality of life in resource-poor settings. Trained as a demographer and holder of a Ph.D. in epidemiology, Dr. Sow has led many initiatives to strengthen health systems and increase access to life-saving drugs and facilities. Previously, Dr. Sow served as Vice President of International Programs at Plan International USA, where she oversaw the nonprofit organization's division in charge of institutional fundraising and technical support of major programs. In that role she also participated as a delegate to the World Bank's Civil Society Consultative Group for Health, Nutrition and Population. Before joining Plan, Dr. Sow served as Chief of the Child Survival Section of UNICEF's country program in Mali, where she led a team of 30 professionals. Throughout her time in Mali, Dr. Sow provided technical assistance to national policy development within the health sector, specifically focusing on scaling-up community health strategies. She served as vice-chair of the Malian National Malaria Control Program's oversight committee and supervised UNICEF's contributions to the implementation of the International Health Partnership Compact in Mali. Dr. Sow also has served as the Country Coordinating Mechanism Chair for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Mali; Health Team Leader and Senior Public Health Advisor for the USAID mission in Mali; Chief of Party and Cote d'Ivoire Country Director for Family Health International; and Senior Technical Officer for Evaluation, Surveillance and Epidemiological Research for Family Health International in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Sow received her Master of Public Health and Master of Arts from the University of Michigan and her PhD from Tulane University. She is bilingual in English and French.

John Monahan
Assistant to the President for Global Initiatives, Georgetown University
John Monahan is an advisor for global health to Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and a Senior Fellow at the university's McCourt School of Public Policy. Monahan was a former special advisor for global health partnerships at the State Department, where he served as a board member and vice-chair of the Finance and Operational Performance Committee of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. As special advisor for global health partnerships at the State Department from 2010 to 2013, Monahan developed, organized and managed the U.S. diplomatic strategy to reform the Global Fund, a multilateral organization that disburses more than $3 billion annually in health assistance to developing countries. He also served as counselor to Secretary Sebelius and director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Monahan was a visiting professor at Georgetown Law Center from 2007 to 2009, and was the founding executive director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, an innovative interdisciplinary policy center exploring ways to use the law as tool for improving health. Monahan also held senior positions at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration.

The O'Neill Institute Colloquium is open to all students, faculty, staff, and interested members of the public.

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