TIME (IST)

AGENDA

08:45 – 09:15

Registration

09:15 – 09:30

Exhibition Opening 

09:30 – 09:40

Opening Remarks
Health and Humanitarian Challenges

Dr Farhat Mantoo, Executive Director, MSF South Asia

09:40 – 10:40

Keynote Address
Inequality is bad for your health 

P. Sainath, Author, Veteran Journalist

10:40 – 11:40

Session 1  
Forced from Home: Humanitarian Considerations for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants

Roshni Shanker, Executive Director, Migration & Asylum Project

Rezaul Karim, Programme Head, Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme, BRAC

Jolene Anthony Dass, Humanitarian Affairs Manager, MSF Malaysia

Dr Parivelan K.M., Associate Professor, Center of Statelessness and Refugee Studies, School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance, TISS

Moderator: Vidya Krishnan, Journalist, Former Health-Editor, The Hindu

11:40 – 12:00

HIGH TEA

12:00 – 13:00

Session 2  
How COVID has shaped Justice and Equity for Access to Treatment

K.M. Gopakumar, Senior Researcher and Legal Advisor at Third World Network

Dr Brinelle D’Souza, National Programme Director, TISS

Giten Khwairakpam, Community and Policy Program Manager, TREAT Asia programme, amfAR

Moderator: Leena Menghaney, Regional Head, MSF Access Campaign

13:00 – 14:00

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:10

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

14:10 – 15:10

Session 3 
Bracing for Impact: Health and Humanitarian Responses in the Context of "security threats"

Elizabeth Willetts, Planetary Health Policy Director, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Benjamin Mason Meier, Professor of Global Health Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law

Nishant Sirohi, Health & Human Rights Fellow at the Geneva Health Files

Moderator: Dr Maria Guevara, International Medical Secretary, MSF

15:10 – 15:30

HIGH TEA

15:30 – 16:30

Session 4  
Past is prologue: Building Community Resilience to Combat Mis/Disinformation in Emergencies

Tina Purnat, Health Information and Infodemic Manager, WHO

Osama Manzar, Executive Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

Shalini Joshi, Director, Meedan & Co-founder Khabar Lahariya

Moderator: Divya Pushkarna, Disinformation Advisor, MSF 

16:30 – 16:40

Closing Remarks 

Ambassador Vijay Nambiar, Retired Indian Diplomat who served as Chief de Cabinet under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 2007-2012