Milyuner Sir Richard Branson, pangadeg Virgin Everything - yaiku, Virgin Group - kanthi harfiah nyiyapake atusan perusahaan, kanthi saiki luwih saka 40 ing saindenging jagad saka maskapai, hotel, sepur, kapal roket, penerbangan balon, lan liya-liyane. Apa sing bisa dikandhakake pimpinan bisnis iki babagan kesehatan global?
Ing grand final saka Global Health Symposium, Branson lan Texas Biomed Presiden / CEO Larry Schlesinger, MD, bakal ngrembug babagan carane semangat wirausaha lan filosofi Branson. "Ngaco, ayo nglakoni!" bisa menehi inspirasi kanggo para ilmuwan lan pimpinan sing nggarap kesehatan global.
Sir Richard Branson bakal judhul Simposium Kesehatan Global Institut Riset Biomedis Texas sing dianakake meh tanggal 28 lan 29 April uga ing San Antonio, Texas.
"Sir Richard Branson minangka pimpinan visioner kanthi pengalaman sing ambane mbangun kemitraan lintas sektor kanggo nyopir owah-owahan transformasi," ujare Schlesinger. "Kita bungah dheweke bakal melu kita meh kanggo nutup simposium kita kanthi cepet." Yayasan Virgin Unite nggunakake kekuwatan bisnis lan kemitraan, ngatasi masalah sosial lan tantangan lingkungan.
Simposium Kesehatan Global kaping pindho Texas Biomed bakal dadi tuan rumah luwih saka 70 pamicara kanggo njelajah pendekatan inovatif kanggo ngatasi kesiapan pandemi lan pembangunan global sing lestari. Diskusi kasebut bakal dianakake online, karo pimpinan lokal sing tampil saka Kebun Raya San Antonio.
Pandemi COVID-19 wis nuduhake sepira cedhake ekonomi karo kesehatan masyarakat lan kudu luwih siyap kanggo pandemi ing mangsa ngarep.
"Ora ana wektu kanggo mbuwang."
Iki dikandhakake dening Akudo Anyanwu, MD, MPH, sing dadi VP Texas Biomed, Pengembangan lan penyelenggara simposium timbal. "Sanajan kita terus nelusuri gelombang varian COVID-19, kita kudu nggawe kemitraan anyar sing ora biasa kanggo nglindhungi kesehatan masarakat saben dina lan sajrone wabah patogen novel sing durung muncul."
Tujuan utama simposium kasebut yaiku ngumpulake pimpinan saka kabeh sektor, kalebu riset, kesehatan, pamrentah, bisnis lan filantropi.
"Pembangunan kesehatan lan lestari ana hubungane, nanging wong-wong sing kudu kita kolaborasi ing tantangan gedhe iki ora asring ana ing ruangan sing padha - kita ngupaya ngganti karo simposium iki," ujare Anyanwu.
Bebarengan karo Branson, pamicara saka saindenging negara lan jagad kalebu wakil saka Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia, Dana Moneter Internasional, Bank Dunia, Johnson & Johnson, ThermoFisher Scientific, Novartis, AstraZeneca lan Baylor College of Medicine, mung kanggo sawetara jeneng.
Pembicara utama kalebu Dr Judith Monroe, Presiden lan CEO saka CDC Foundation, sing bakal ngrembug "Partnerships and Philanthropy in Pandemis and Beyond" lan Dr Tony Frank, Kanselir Colorado State University System, sing bakal nuduhake "Kasus Beda kanggo Peran Komunitas ing Inovasi Biomedis.
Program rong dina kasebut nampilake diskusi panel babagan kesehatan mental, ketimpangan jender lan populasi sing rentan ing pandemik. Pembicara bakal nuduhake kemajuan paling anyar babagan HIV, malaria, tuberkulosis, penyakit tropis sing diabaikan, lan penyakit ora menular kaya kanker lan penyakit jantung. Siswa lokal bakal nuduhake kepiye pandemi COVID-19 mbentuk generasi sabanjure. Para ahli bakal ngrembug babagan peran komunikasi ilmu pengetahuan ing pendhidhikan kesehatan masyarakat lan nglawan informasi sing salah.
Pejabat terkenal sing melu kalebu Henry Cisneros, mantan Sekretaris Perumahan lan Pembangunan Perkotaan AS, Hakim Kabupaten Bexar Nelson Wolff, Komisioner Kabupaten Bexar Rebeca Clay-Flores, Walikota San Antonio Ron Nirenberg lan Anggota Dewan San Antonio Melissa Cabello Havrda. Texas Biomed bakal ngurmati wakil kutha lan kabupaten amarga kepemimpinane sajrone pandemi ing acara kasebut.
APA sing kudu dijupuk saka ARTIKEL INI:
- “Even as we continue to navigate the waves of COVID-19 variants, we must forge new, unusual partnerships to protect people’s health on a daily basis and during outbreaks of novel pathogens that have yet to emerge.
- “Health and sustainable development are closely intertwined, but the people we need to collaborate on these grand challenges are not often in the same room – we are seeking to change that with this symposium,”.
- At the grand finale of the Global Health Symposium, Branson and Texas Biomed President/CEO Larry Schlesinger, MD, will discuss how Branson’s entrepreneurial spirit and philosophy of “Screw it, Let’s do it.
