We are very pleased to announce the following confirmed plenary speakers, session chairs and panel members:

Pontiano Kaleebu

Director, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and Director, MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit

Francine Ntoumi

Founder, Chair and Executive Director of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Republic of Congo

John Amuasi

Leader, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR-KNUST, Ghana

Jackeline Alger

Board Member, Instituto de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitologia Antonio Vidal, and Member, TDR Regional Training Centre for LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean) 

Iris Mwanza

Deputy Director, Women in Leadership, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Yewande Alimi

Program Coordinator, Antimicrobial Resistance, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Gustavo Matta

Public Health Researcher, Oswaldo Fiocruz Foundation

Hector H. Garcia

Director, Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Head, Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru

Thomas Nyirenda

Strategic Partnerships & Capacity Development Manager, the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio

Co-founder, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) and Lead, Department of Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, IECS

Lolem Ngong

Chief of Staff, Amref Health Africa

John Reeder

Director of TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and Director of WHO’s Research for Health Department, part of WHO’s Science Division

Trudie Lang

Director, The Global Health Network, University of Oxford and Research Director, Health Data Research (HDR) Global

Katherine Littler

Co-lead, Global Health Ethics Team, World Health Organisation