PMAC 2013

The 1st Global Conference on Regional Disease Surveillance Networks
The 2nd International One Health Congress
The Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation.

A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions

28 January – 2 February 2013
Centara Grand at Central World, Bangkok, Thailand

BACKGROUND

The Prince Mahidol Award Conference is an annual international conference hosted by the Royal Thai Government, the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation, and other relevant International Organizations, Foundations and Civil Society Organizations. The Conference serves as an international forum for sharing evidence for health related policies and strengthens social commitments for health development. This conference is linked to the annual Prince Mahidol Award for public health and medicines, one of the most prestigious international health awards.

The Conference in 2013 is jointly organized for the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2013, the 1st Global Conference on Regional Disease Surveillance Networks, the 2nd International One Health Congress, and the Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation. The 2013 Conference with the theme“A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions” is dedicated to transparent and progressive resolve to reduce the threat of infectious diseases through cross-sectoral and international cooperation and communication.

The 2013 Conference will prove to be one of the most significant assemblages of infectious disease experts in the world, who will meet to advance the “One Health” agenda beyond the theoretical to the practical, and bring much-needed attention to the policy and operational issues that ultimately determine the impact and success of these cross-sectoral efforts.

We expect vanguard moments with a positive impact on global solidarity for a world united against infectious disease.

OBJECTIVES

  • To foster cooperation and communication across sectors and across borders to mitigate the threat of infectious diseases, existing or emerging, at the human-animal ecosystems interface.
  • To review and share experiences among low, middle and high in come countries with different degrees of health system capacity as defined within the International Health Regulations and the OIE PVS pathway, leading to knowledge sharing, strengthening of health systems, establishment of sound policies, and positive social action.
  • To identify the human suffering and economic cost if we fail to build appropriate human and institutional capacities and fail to exploit available technologic innovations in countering health threats.
  • To provide opportunities for a group of experts - utilizing multidiscipline country teams - to dialogue, learn, create solutions, and provide leadership in applied one-health concepts.
  • To provide a platform for international, regional, and national disease surveillance systems and networks to demonstrate best practices, forward-looking concepts, management of political challenges, and cross-border cooperation in response to health threats at the human-animal-ecosystem interface.
  • To identify those policies and other higher-level factors that either constrain or enable effective cross-sectoral collaboration at the country, regional and global level and the formulation of an action agenda that draws on these insights to promote successful crosssectoral solutions to infectious disease threats.

PMAC 2013 International Organizing Committee

Name - Surname

Position

Organization

Role

Prof. Dr. Vicharn Panich

Chair, International Award Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee

Prince Mahidol Award Foundation/Mahidol University

Chair

Dr. Keiji Fukuda

Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment

World Health Organization (Represent WHO, FAO, OIE)

Co-chair

Mr. Kiyoshi Kodera

Vice President

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Co-chair

Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Co-chair

Dr. Jeanette Vega

Managing Director

The Rockefeller Foundation

Co-chair

Dr. Silvia Bino

Chair Elect

Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS)

Co-chair

Dr. Fiona Godlee

Editor-in-Chief

BMJ

Co-chair

Prof. Martyn Jeggo

Director, Australian Animal Health Laboratory

CSIRO Livestock Industries

Co-chair

Dr. David Nabarro

Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza

UNSG’s Office

Member

Mr. Hiroyuki Konuma

Assistant Director-General of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Member

Dr. Cristian Baeza

Director, Health, Nutrition & Population, Human Development Network

The World Bank

Member

Dr. Gardner Murray

Special Advisor

World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)

Member

Dr. Neil Squires

Head of Profession, Health

Department for International Development, UK (Dfid)

Member

Dr. Rosalia Sciortino

Regional Director for Southeast and East Asia

International Development Research Center

Member

Dr. Patricia Moser

 Lead Health Specialist

Asian Development Bank

Member

Dr. David Heymann

Head

Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House

Member

Dr. Alain Vandersmissen

Senior Coordinator One Health, Emerging Diseases, Food Security
Department Asia / Horizontal Affairs
 

European External Action Service

Member

Mr. Nick Previsich

Director, Environmental Issues Division, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Public Health Agency of Canada

Member

Dr. Peter Daszak

President

EcoHealth Alliance

Member

Ms. Deborah Rosenblum

Executive Vice President

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

Member

Dr. Ann Marie Kimball

Senior Program Officer, Surveillance and Epidemiology

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Member

Dr. Mark Smolinski

Director, Global Health Threats

Skoll Global Threats Fund

Member

Prof. Mark Rweyemamu

Executive Director

Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS)

Member

Dr. Tanarak Plipat

Co-director, Thai-MOPH US-CDC Collaboration (TUC)

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, USHHS

Member

Prof. Rifat Atun

Professor of International Health Management

Imperial College Business School and the Faculty of Medicine

Member

Dr. David Legge

Associate Professor of School of Public Health

La Trobe University, Australia / People's Health Movement

Member

Dr. Paijit Warachit

Permanent Secretary

Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Member

Mr. Sihasak Phuangketkaew

Permanent Secretary

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand

Member

Clin. Prof. Supat Vanichakarn

Secretary General

Prince Mahidol Award Foundation

Member

Prof. Dr. Rajata Rajatanavin

President

Mahidol University

Member

Clin. Prof. Udom Kachintorn

Dean, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital

Mahidol University

Member

Prof. Dr. Winit Puapraditt

Dean, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital

Mahidol University

Member

Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert

Senior Advisor on Diseases Control

Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Member

Dr. Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Senior Advisor

International Health Policy Program, Thailand

Member

Dr. Pongpisut Jongudomsuk

Director

Health Systems Research Institute, Thailand

Member

Dr. Kumnuan Ungchusak

Senior Expert (Epidemiology)

Ministry of Public Health

Member

Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon

Dean, Faculty of Tropical Medicine

Mahidol University

Member

Dr. Parntep Ratanakorn

Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Science

Mahidol University

Member

Dr. Sopida Chavanichkul

Director, International Health Bureau

Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Member

Dr. Cathy E. Roth

Scientific Policy Advisor

World Health Organization

Member & Joint Secretary

Mr. Yojiro Ishii

Deputy Director General

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Member & Joint Secretary

Dr. Dennis Carroll

Director

U.S. Agency for International Development

Member & Joint Secretary

Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury

Senior Adviser & Associate Director

The Rockefeller Foundation

Member & Joint Secretary

Dr. Louise Gresham

CEO

Fondation Merieux USA, Inc.  / CORDS

Member & Joint Secretary

Prof. John Mackenzie

Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases

Curtin University

Member & Joint Secretary

Prof. Dr. Manee Rattanachaiyanont

Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital

Mahidol University

Member & Joint Secretary

Dr. Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra

Associate Professor

Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University

Member & Joint Secretary

Dr. Sopon Iamsirithaworn

Director

FETP-Thailand

Member & Joint Secretary

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