Alan Jope
CEO, Unilever
Myriam Sidibé
Founder, Brands on a Mission and Co-Founder and Chair, National Business Compact on Coronavirus, Kenya
Daniella Foster
Global VP & Head, Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability, Consumer Health, Bayer
Samir Singh
Global EVP, Skin Cleansing, Unilever
Janet Mbugua
Founder, Inua Dada Foundation, TV Presenter and Author ‘My First Time’
Sanda Ojiambo
Executive Director and CEO, United Nations Global Compact
Gillian Christie
Senior Manager, Business Development, Walmart Health, and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr Kayode Afolabi
Director, Reproductive Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Amira Ghouaibi
Global Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum
Dr Elise Dallas
GP Clinic Lead and GP Safeguarding Lead, Babylon Health
Dr Austen El-Osta
Director- Self-Care Academic Research Unit, Department of Primary Care & Public Health- Imperial College London
Donna Castle
Director of Public Affairs and Communications, PAGB, Consumer HealthCare Association
Pierre Moon
Director, Population Services International and Self Care Trailblazers Group
Margaux Yost
BSR, HERProject, Health Lead
Zahid Torres-Rahman
CEO, Business Fights Povety
Judy Stenmark
CEO, Global Self-Care Federation
Óscar Serrano Oria
Program Specialist - Nutrition and ECD, UNICEF UK
Alice Allan
Senior Adviser, Business Fights Poverty
COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, devastating impacts on the lives, livelihoods and learning of millions of people, particularly the most vulnerable. While efforts have rightly focused on mitigating the immediate impacts, we need to start thinking about efforts to recover and rebuild, because action taken now will have long-lasting effects on people's well-being and resilience.
The pandemic has exacerbated deep inequalities and fragilities in the current system that have always been there. We as a community have the opportunity and the responsibility to act now to build a better future.
The Business Fights Poverty Virtual Summit Series builds on the success and experience of our recent online conferences, Business Fights Poverty Online 2020 and Business Fights Poverty NYC 2020, to dig deeper into a specific issue over the course of a day.
At this event we focused on health access for the most vulnerable, and looked at this from a variety of different angles. The event coincided with World Handwashing Day 2020, and we explored the Day's theme of "Hand Hygiene for All" in our first panel discussion. We will then moved on to self-care and, through our workshop session, we looked at how this can help health systems rebuild after COVID-19.
The day provided us with the opportunity to collectively set out a vision for what “better” looks like - at the level of society, business and the individual, and spark collaborative action to make this a reality.
Participants came away with fresh insights and new peer relationships.
1.00 - 1.30 PM BST
WELCOME
Welcome by Zahid and Yvette Torres-Rahman, Founders, Business Fights Poverty
Followed by a Fireside Chat between:
Myriam Sidibé, Founder, Brands on a Mission, and Chair and Co-Founder, National Business Compact on Coronavirus (NBCC), Kenya
Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever
1.30 - 2.30 PM BST
WEBINAR
How can we ensure hand hygiene for all?
Hosted with Brands on a Mission
COVID-19 has put handwashing centre stage - and also exposed issues around ensuring access to hygiene for all, especially the most vulnerable. This session, taking place on Global Handwashing Day, will explore the challenges facing, and strategies for achieving, access to hygiene and health.
The session will focus on the role that companies and their brands can play, in collaboration with government and NGOs, to ensure access and drive the necessary consumer behaviour change. We will deep dive into the experience of companies and coalitions that have been at the forefront of handwashing, including during the current pandemic.
Speakers:
Janet Mbugua, Founder, Inua Dada Foundation, TV Presenter and Author ‘My First Time’
Myriam Sidibé, Founder, Brands on a Mission, and Chair and Co-Founder, National Business Compact on Coronavirus (NBCC), Kenya
Samir Singh, Global EVP, Skin Cleansing, Unilever
Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director and CEO, United Nations Global Compact
Zahid Torres-Rahman, Founder and CEO, Business Fights Poverty (moderator)
2.30 - 3.00 PM BST
BREAKOUT DISCUSSIONS
3.00 - 4.00 PM BST
WORKSHOP
How can self-care help health systems rebuild better during COVID-19?
Hosted with Bayer
Even before COVID-19 the World Health Organisation had estimated that half the world’s population lacked access to basic health services, putting the achievement of SDG 3 in serious doubt. Now the stakes are even higher. A new Business Fights Poverty Challenge with life sciences company Bayer, is exploring how wider uptake of ‘self-care’ approaches can reduce pressure on strained health systems, improve vulnerable people’s health outcomes and empower individuals and communities in the process.
Self-care innovations currently range from self- testing HIV kits in Kenya to telemedicine campaigns being led by US pharmacies, and much more in between. COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity to seriously build support for self-care approaches - both to effectively continue to respond to the emergency and for the longer- term with regard to cardiovascular disease, healthy pregnancies and immunity.
Panelists:
Amira Ghouaibi, Global Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum
Dr Austen El-Osta, Director- Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU), Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London
Daniella Foster, Global VP & Head, Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability, Consumer Health, Bayer
Donna Castle, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, PAGB, Consumer HealthCare Association
Dr Elise Dallas, GP Clinic Lead and GP Safeguarding Lead, Babylon Health
Gillian Christie, Senior Manager, Business Development, Walmart Health, and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Judy Stenmark, CEO, Global Self-Care Federation
Margaux Yost, HERProject, Health Lead, BSR
Dr Kayode Afolabi, Director, Reproductive Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Óscar Serrano Oria, Program Specialist - Nutrition and ECD, UNICEF UK
Pierre Moon, Director, Population Services International and Self Care Trailblazers Group
Alice Allan, Challenge Director, Business Fights Poverty (moderator)
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