THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015
LECTURE ROOM

8:00-8:30

Breakfast available

Session 1
Welcome and Overview

Objective: To introduce the agenda and give an overview of the workshop’s key themes.

8:30-9:00

Welcome and Introductions

Prashant Yadav, Vice President and Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan

Victor Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine

9:00-10:30

International Cooperative Action on Pandemics

Moderator: Olga Jonas, Economic Adviser and Coordinator, Operational Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenzas, The World Bank

Gordon Woo, Catastrophist, Risk Management Solutions

Jordan Tappero, Director, Division of Global Health Protection, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Eduardo González-Pier, Vice Minister Integration and Development, Ministry of Health, Mexico

Aron Betru, CEO, Financing for Development

10:30-10:45

Break

Session 2
Marshaling Funding for Preparedness and Response

Objective: To discuss different options for making funding available in low- and middle-income countries during a pandemic and the circumstances that favor certain options over others.

10:45-11:45

Pandemic Emergency Funds: The World Health Organization (WHO) Contingency Fund, the World Bank, and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Financing Facilities

Moderator: Peter Sands, Former Group CEO, Standard Chartered PLC

Katherine DeLand, Chief of Staff, Ebola Response, WHO

Chris Lane, Division Chief, Low-Income Countries Strategy, Policy and Review, IMF

Priya Basu, Manager, Development Finance, The World Bank Group

11:45-1:15

Adapting Insurance Products for Pandemic Risk

Moderator: Panos Varangis, Global Lead, Agricultural Finance and Disaster Risk Finance, Finance and Markets Global Practice, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Olivier Mahul, Program Manager, Disaster Risk Financing & Insurance, The World Bank

Nikhil da Victoria Lobo, Head, Global Partnerships, Americas, Swiss Re

Simon Young, GeoSY Ltd.

José Ángel Villalobos, Senior Insurance Specialist, The World Bank

Gunther Kraut, Financial Solutions Life, Munich Re (by video)

1:15-2:15

Lunch

2:15-3:45

Innovative Financing for Preparedness and Response

Moderator: Juan Costain, Lead Financial Specialist, The World Bank

Paolo Sison, Director Innovative Finance, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Christopher Egerton-Warburton, Partner, Lion’s Head Global Partners

Lelio Marmora, Executive Director, UNITAID

Adam Bornstein, Specialist Innovative Health Financing, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

3:45-4:00

Break

Session 3
Identifying Triggers and Modeling Risk

Objective: To discuss a verifiable trigger for payout and a suitable group to adjudicate triggers, to understand what models can tell us about pandemic risk.

4:00-5:30

Modeling and Triggers for Payout

Moderator: Prashant Yadav, Vice President and Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan

Nathan Wolfe, CEO, Metabiota

Martin Meltzer, Lead, Health Economics and Modeling Unit, CDC

Gordon Woo, Catastrophist, Risk Management Solutions

Nita Madhav, Principal Scientist, Research and Modelling, AIR Worldwide

5:30

Adjourn

All participants and guests are invited to a reception in the Great Hall immediately following the meeting.

6:30

Dinner in National Academy of Sciences Building for speakers, moderators, and invited guests

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015
LECTURE ROOM

8:30-9:00

Breakfast available

9:00-9:15

Welcome and Overview

Prashant Yadav, Vice President and Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan

Session 4
Management and Administration of Funds

Objective: To understand the constraints on donors and discuss how financial tools can be designed to encourage risk sharing and crowding in; to discuss the administrative burden emergency payments place recipient country governments.

9:15-10:45

Financing Challenges In-Country

Moderator: Peter Sands, Former Group CEO, Standard Chartered PLC

Tendai Biti, Former Minister of Finance, Zimbabwe

Gordon Liu, Yangtze River Scholar, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University

Victor Bampoe, Deputy Minister of Health, Ghana

James Kollie, Deputy Minister for Fiscal Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, Liberia

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Donor Considerations and Crowding-In

Moderator: Trish Stroman, Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Tore Godal, Special Adviser on Global Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Jennifer Adams, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development

Gargee Ghosh, Director Development Policy and Finance, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Erin Hohlfelder, Policy Director Global Health, ONE Campaign

12:30-1:30

Lunch

Session 5
Financing Preparedness and Giving Incentives

Objective: To explain how financial incentives can be used to encourage preparedness and health systems development.

1:30-3:00

The Investment Case for Preparedness and the Role of the Private Sector

Moderator: Eduardo González-Pier, Vice Minister Integration and Development, Ministry of Health, Mexico

Staci Warden, Executive Director Center for Financial Markets, Milken Institute

Trish Stroman, Partner and Managing Director, BCG

Daniel Hanna, Managing Director, Head of Public Sector and Development Organisations: Africa, Americas and Europe, Standard Chartered Bank

David Crush, Manager, IFC

3:00-3:15

Break

3:15-4:45

Incentives and Preparedness

Moderator: Milan Brahmbhatt, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute

Richard Gregory, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Health Security, UK Department for International Development

David Nabarro, Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Ebola, United Nations (by video)

George Gao, Deputy Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Hans Troedsson, Assistant Director General for General Management, WHO

4:45-5:00

Closing Remarks

5:00

Adjourn