“Tackling Grand Challenges in Global Health and Development"
Peter
A.
Singer,
Chief
Executive
Officer
of
Grand
Challenges
Canada
Abstract: The world’s challenges and targets for their solutions have recently been captured in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which are intended to guide global action from 2015-2030. Now, the focus is shifting from the strategy of developing and forging consensus around these goals to questions of implementation and execution regarding how these goals will be reached. In addressing this question, it is clear that innovation will be critical to reaching the SDGs. This talk will draw upon the experience of Grand Challenges Canada, which was launched in 2010 and is funded by the Government of Canada to support bold ideas with big impact in global health, to illustrate how innovation might be pursued to help reach the SDGs, and how Canada could have a leadership role to do so.
Biosketch:
Dr.
Singer
is
Chief
Executive
Officer
of
Grand
Challenges
Canada.
He
is
also
Director
at
the
Sandra
Rotman
Centre
at
University
Health
Network,
Professor
of
Medicine
at
University
of
Toronto,
Foreign
Secretary
of
the
Canadian
Academy
of
Health
Sciences,
and
he
chaired
the
Academy’s
assessment
on
Canada’s
Strategic
Role
in
Global
Health.
In
2014,
he
was
named
Co-Chair
of
Every
Woman
Every
Child’s
Innovation
Working
Group,
aimed
at
harnessing
the
power
of
innovation
to
accelerate
progress
towards
achieving
the
health-related
Millennium
Development
Goals.
He
has
advised
the
Bill
&
Melinda
Gates
Foundation,
the
UN
Secretary
General’s
office,
the
Government
of
Canada,
Pepsico,
BioVeda
China
Venture
Capital
Fund,
and
several
African
Governments
on
global
health.
Dr.
Singer
was
appointed
an
Officer
of
the
Order
of
Canada
in
2011
for
his
contributions
to
health
research
and
bioethics,
and
for
his
dedication
to
improving
health
in
developing
countries.
In
2007,
Dr.
Singer
received
the
Michael
Smith
Prize
as
Canada’s
Health
Researcher
of
the
Year
in
Population
Health
and
Health
Services.
He
is
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Canada,
the
Canadian
Academy
of
Health
Sciences,
the
U.S.
Institute
of
Medicine
of
the
National
Academies,
and
The
Academy
of
Sciences
for
the
Developing
World
(TWAS).
Dr.
Singer
has
published
over
300
research
articles
and
received
over
$50
million
in
research
grants.
He
studied
internal
medicine
at
University
of
Toronto,
medical
ethics
at
University
of
Chicago,
public
health
at
Yale
University,
and
management
at
Harvard
Business
School.
Opening remarks by:
-
Catherine Burns, Director of CBB
-
Rohinton Medhora, President, CIGI
Sponsored by CBB and co-hosted with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Event is FREE – please RSVP via Eventbrite
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available
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or
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Visit:
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for
more
information.
