• 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

    TEA BREAK

  • 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

    TEA BREAK

  • 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