ICUH2022 - Valencia, Spain

BIOGRAPHIES OF PLENARY SPEAKERS & CHAIRS

Opening Ceremony

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Sr. Joan Ribó

Chair
Mayor, City of Valencia
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Sra. Maimunah Mohd Sharif

Speaker
Director, UN-Habitat
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Sra. Giselle Sebag

Speaker
Executive Director, International Society for Urban Health
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Dr. Carlos Dora

Speaker
President, International Society of Urban Health
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Sra. Laura Soto

Speaker
Secretary of Bioclimatic Architecture and Sustainable Energy, Government of Valencia
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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Speaker
Director General World Health Oganization
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Dra. Mª Vicenta Mestre

Speaker
Rector, University of Valencia

Plenary 1:

Strengthening the Policy Response to Improve Climate, Clean Air and Health in Urban Environments
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Dr. Carlos Dora

Speaker
President, International Society of Urban Health
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Dr. Madeleine Thomson

Speaker
Head of Climate Impacts & Adaptation, Wellcome Trust
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Nina Renshaw

Speaker
Head of Health, Clean Air Fund
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Sra. Giselle Sebag

Speaker
Executive Director, International Society for Urban Health
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Dr. Maria Neira

Speaker
Director, Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Joanna Masic

Speaker
Global Lead for Sustainable City Infrastructure and Services, The World Bank

Plenary 2:

Transforming Urban Environments for Health
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Dr. Nathalie Röbbel

Speaker
Head of Urban Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Dr. David J. Erickson

Speaker
Senior Vice President, Head of Outreach & Education, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Rowena Estwick

Speaker
National and International Partnerships Manager. Impact on Urban Health
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Louise Vogel Kielgast

Speaker
Associate, Gehl Architects
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Sarah Skenazy

Speaker
Clinical Specialist, Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Google Health

Plenary 3:

Transforming Urban Environments for Health
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Dr. Tolullah Oni

Chair
Clinical Director of Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge & Extraordinary Professor, Innovation Africa, University of Pretoria
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Dr. Ann Aerts

Speaker
Head, Novartis Foundation
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Dr. Audrey de Nazelle

Speaker
Senior Lecturer at the Centre of Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Co-chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Policy Committee, Chair & Founder of of Imperial’s Network of Excellence on Air Quality
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Dr. Shamim Hayder Talukder

Speaker
Chief Executive Officer Eminence Associates for Social Development (EASD) Bangladesh & Member Secretary Bangladesh Urban Health Network (BUHN)
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Dr. Ricardo Leite

Speaker
Member of the Portuguese National Parliament (Lisbon Electoral District)
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Dr. Roel Vermeulen

Speaker
Professor, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University and Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands

Plenary 4:

Transforming Urban Environments for Health
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Dr. Ana V. Diez Roux

Chair
Dean at Dornsife School of Public Health & Director at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University
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Dr. Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen

Speaker
Director, Urban Planning, Environment and Health initiative and the Air pollution and Urban Environment Research Program at ISGlobal Barcelona, Spain
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Susanna Hausmann

Speaker
Chief Program Officer, Fondation Botnar
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Louise Francis

Speaker
Managing Director, Mapping for Change
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Dr. Carme Borrell

Speaker
Director, Public Health Agency of Barcelona
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Ethan Kent

Speaker
Executive Director, PlacemakingX

Plenary 5:

Transforming Urban Environments for Health
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Dr. Thiago Hérick de Sá

Chair
Age-friendly Environments, Technical Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Somsook Boonyabancha

Speaker
Chairperson, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Chairperson Baan Mankong Housing Committee Thailand
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Sharon Roerty

Speaker
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Dr. Billie Giles-Corti

Speaker
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor Professorial Fellow
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Dr. Matilda Bernadette King

Speaker
The Medical Superintendent, Macauley Street Government Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Erion Veliaj

Speaker
Mayor, City of Tirana
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Paul Supawanich

Speaker
Director of Programmes, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Plenary 6:

Transforming Urban Environments for Health
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Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford

Chair
Clinical Professor of Global Health, New York University School of Global Public Health & Chair of the Board, International Society for Urban Health
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Jacqueline Weekers

Speaker
Director, Migration Health Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Dr. Marc Ho

Speaker
Director, Contact Tracing and Epidemiology Centre, Ministry of Health, Singapore
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Vicky Hobart

Speaker
GLA Group Director of Public Health and Deputy Statutory Adviser, Greater London Authority and Office of Health Improvement and Disparities
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Claudia Pizarro Peña

Speaker
Mayor, La Pintana, Santiago, Chile