第167场兴泉全球健康讲座
No. 167 Aegon-Industrial Global Health Seminar Series

Abstract:

This seminar is to let the audience know what the global health means, why the global health organizations are established, and major global health organizations with the global reach. A few examples of global health organizations (such as WHO, UNAIDS, Gates Foundation, the Global Fund) will be discussed from the angles of governance, financing and programming.

Speaker Bio: 

Dr. Jinkou (Button) Zhao is a senior specialist for evaluation and impact at the Global Fund. Dr Zhao has extensive experiences in the field of nutrition, infectious diseases, and chronic diseases as a range of professional roles from a junior epidemiologist to Department Director for Jiangsu provincial CDC, to a Chief for Strategic Information at U.S. CDC, a senior advisor at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a senior technical expert at the Global Fund over the past 36 years.

Dr Zhao was trained as a physician, with a MSc in epidemiology and biostatistics, and a PhD in epidemiology. He teaches epidemiology at Nanjing Medical University, Wageningen University in the Netherland, University of Geneva in Switzerland and Oxford University in UK. He supervised more than 20 Masters or PhD students and published more than 260 articles in peer-reviewed journals.