Join the Livestream of the GBCHealth Conference 2013. World’s Premier Conference on Business and Global Health
New York, NY, May 13, 2013 /3BL Media/ - Join the GBCHealth annual Conference via livestream for the only event focused exclusively on the role of the private sector in tackling the most urgent global health problems of our times.
The GBCHealth annual conference in New York City May 15-17 will bring together hundreds of business leaders and the biggest voices in global health, from the Earth Institute’s Jeffrey Sachs to Newark Mayor Cory Booker to the chiefs of the most influential global institutions, including UNAIDS and USAID.
This year’s Conference will be GBCHealth’s most important and exciting yet, with a sharp focus on how business can better align its work to help achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of globally-agreed upon targets for reducing child and maternal deaths and combatting diseases such as HIV, TB and malaria.
The following three sessions will be livestreamed:
- Opening Keynote and Business Call to Action on the Health MDGs with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria and for Financing of the Health Related MDGs, Ray Chambers, and GBCHealth Acting CEO and Executive Vice President of BD, Gary Cohen. (5/16, 9 AM EST)
- Replenishment in The Global Fund’s New Era: The Private Sector’s Impact. Hear from Global Fund leadership, donors and private sector partners on why support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is important now more than ever. The panelists will be Brian Brink, Chief Medical Officer of Anglo American plc, Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State. Learn how the private sector can play a leading role in ensuring success. (5/16, 3:30 PM EST)
- Cost-Saving Meets Life-Saving: How a New Innovative Financing Partnership Aims to Accelerate Progress toward the MDGs. Join leaders from USAID, Swedish Sida and private sector partners as they discuss a new innovative financing partnership to increase the value delivered by donor aid. (5/17, 9 AM EST)
To watch, you’ll need to register in advance. Please click here to make your complimentary reservation.
Learn more about the GBCHealth Conference here.
GBCHealth – formerly the Global Business Coalition of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – is a non-profit coalition of more than 200 companies working to improve the health of their employees, communities and the world’s population.
