XVII International AIDS Conference: Speaker Bios  PRESS RELEASE  Contact:
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2008/045/AFR Advance Publication Launch
The Changing HIV/AIDS Landscape:
A Compendium of Selected Papers Prepared in Conjunction with the World Bank Africa Region’s “HIV/AIDS Agenda for Action 2007-2011” XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
Monday, 4 August, 2008
18:30 – 20:30 CDT, Skills Building Room 3, Centro Banamex Speaker Bios | *Joy Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first national housing policy. Joy subsequently served as Minister of Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In 2003, Joy joined the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for the Family and Community Health Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally. She is on the Board of GAVI. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa and the Accelerating Access Initiative. Joy holds a Master of Science degree in Financial Accounting and Decision Sciences from Miami University, Ohio. Joy joined the World Bank and became the Vice President of the Human Development Network in 2007. | | *Elizabeth Lule, a Ugandan national, is currently the Manager of the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), responsible for the policy direction and coordination of the World Bank’s HIV/AIDS work in Africa. Ms. Lule leads ACTafrica’s efforts to facilitate the implementation of the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP) for Africa that has committed over US $ 1.6 billion in 30 countries. Prior to 2006, Elizabeth was the World Bank’s Adviser for Population and Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health in the Human Development Vice Presidency. Prior to joining the World Bank, Elizabeth was Africa Regional Vice President for Pathfinder International. She worked with USAID in Nigeria as program manager and technical advisor for the health, nutrition and population program. Ms. Lule taught Statistics and Demography at the University of Swaziland and the University of Cote d’Ivoire. She has published widely on various issues in women's health, youth, and HIV/AIDS and is a frequent speaker in international and academic fora. Ms. Lule has advanced degrees from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics. | | Elizabeth Ninan, a South African national, is a Public Sector Specialist for the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Young Professionals program at the World Bank, Elizabeth was co-Director of a non-governmental organization in South Africa which sought to provide credible evidence-based HIV and AIDS and poverty-related policy development for governmental and private sector stakeholders. Her work at the Bank focuses on community initiatives, vulnerable populations, public expenditure reviews and tracking surveys with specific focus on HIV/AIDS. Elizabeth holds Masters degrees in Development Planning (University of Witwatersrand), Public Administration and Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (Columbia University). | | John Stover is President of Futures Institute, an organization dedicated to policy analysis, strategic planning and resource mobilization for international health programs. His work over the past 37 years has focused on policy development, building political commitment and strategic planning for family planning, HV/AIDS and safe motherhood programs. He leads efforts in modeling and forecasting and has developed computer models that are in wide use today for demographic projections, HIV/AIDS estimates and projections, family planning program analysis and resource allocation. | | Katherine Tulenko coordinates the World Bank's Africa Health Workforce Program which conducts analytical work and provides technical assistance on financial and labor market aspects of the health worker shortage (www.AfricaHRH.org). The program's work on motivation and incentives has provided countries with an evidence base for designing compensation packages that increase health worker retention and access to care. She has also worked extensively on HIV/AIDS; maternal and child health; global aging; water, hygiene, and sanitation; and public-private partnerships for health. She received a 2002 Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for innovation in global development and serves on the Advisory Board of the Management Education & Research Consortium. She has adjunct faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the George Mason College of Health and Human Services. She earned her Bachelors in Biochemistry from Harvard University, her Masters in History and Philosophy of Science from Emmanuel College Cambridge, a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her Medical Doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. | | *Damien de Walque is an Economist in the Development Research Group of the Human Development and Public Services Team of the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2003. His research interests include health and education and the interactions between them. He has been involved in a study on the relationship between schooling and HIV infection in Uganda, as well as analyzing the effect of education on other health outcomes, such as smoking behaviors. He is evaluating the impact of HIV/AIDS interventions and policies in several African countries. | | *David Wilson has worked in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for more than 20 years as an academic and practitioner. He is currently Lead Health Specialist, responsible for monitoring and evaluation of AIDS programs, at the World Bank. He holds adjunct professorial positions at a number of universities and has taught a range of M&E courses at the postgraduate level in Africa and the Asia/Pacific region. He has also taught numerous intensive short courses on M&E and is the author of the UNAIDS guidelines on M&E for National AIDS Councils. He has consulted on M&E for numerous international agencies, including USAID, Department for International Development (UK), European Union, UNAIDS, UNICEF and the World Bank. His major interests lie in the use of national level M&E systems to understand critical HIV transmission dynamics and intervention priorities better and promote sound, evidence-based HIV prevention, care, support, and mitigation responses. | *Participating in the press conference, Monday, August 4, 17:00 p.m. CDT, Centro Banamex, Press Conference Room 2 |
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