Dr Guy Fones

Guy Fones received his MD from the University of Chile, and since then has gained more than 25 years’ experience and achievements in the public, private and global health sectors. He joined WHO in 2015 and currently holds the position of Advisor at WHO’s newly launched Department -Global NCD Platform - which houses the Secretariat for the Global Coordination Mechanism for Noncommunicable Diseases, of which he leads. The main purpose of his current work is to support WHO’s priority of responding to country needs by catalyzing multistakeholder engagement and cross-sectoral collaboration in support of the NCD and NCD-related SDGs, ultimately translated into meaningful and effective commitments and contributions from relevant partners. Dr Fones previously served as Health Attaché for the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations Organizations in Geneva where he gained solid experience in international public health, global health policy and forging strategic pro-health partnerships bridging national, regional and global multistakeholder interests.

Dr Ibtihal Fadhil 

Former Regional Adviser, Noncommunicable Diseases at World Health Organization, EMRO (2008 -2016).  Board member of the global NCD Alliance 2017-2021.Commissioner -Lancet Commission on Women and cancer since 2021.Member of WHO Strategic Technical Advisory Group for NCD prevention and control (2021-2023.), and Member of WHO /CSOs Working group on NCD since 2017.Dr. Fadhil served as Adviser to Allies Improving Primary Health Care (PHCPI) .2022, Dr. Fadhil has held various academic and clinical positions during the last 36 years on national and international levels.  Working as an NCD consultant for the ministry of health in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, and Iraq,Dr. Fadhil served as a member of several national and international medical committees and public health associations. Published, as main author and co-author in several scientific journals.

Jenelle Krishnamoorthy

Jenelle S. Krishnamoorthy, PhD, is the associate vice president for global policy, communications and population health at Merck. Prior to joining Merck in January 2015, Krishnamoorthy worked on health policy for 10 years for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). She served for five years as the health policy director for the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee when Harkin was chairman. Krishnamoorthy first joined Harkin's team as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2003 and 2004. During 2004 and 2006, she worked at the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs on health, science, technology, and environment issues with India on a AAAS Diplomacy Fellowship. Trained as a licensed clinical psychologist, Krishnamoorthy completed her pediatric clinical psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown Medical School, where she conducted research in the areas of childhood obesity and tobacco issues. She received her bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon College, her master's degree from the University of Tennessee, and her doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Kawaldip Sehmi 

Kawaldip is the chief executive officer of the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations.He has an academic background in public health and law and has a passionate belief in improving access to services through digital health and justice services. As the managing director of an international children’s legal center, he led a team of international lawyers improving the rights of the child, including right to health, by applying Remote Courts. He has also served as the chief executive officer of an international mental health charity, specializing in niche mental health services supporting young people and adults with complex mental health, personality disorder and substance misuse problems access telehealth and digital mental health services. Kawaldip is a passionate advocate of the WHO’s human rights based approaches to health and strengthening of the institutional, legislative, policy, practice and standards framework. He believes this support is needed to achieve the health goals outlined in the Sustainable Developmental Goals 2030, specifically in SDG 3.8,.to ensure universal health coverage for all.

Dr Sawsan A.S. Al Madhi 

Dr. Sawsan A. S. Al Madhi is a professional healthcare Leader and Consultant, Advocacy Advisor, Entrepreneur, honor class master’s degree holder and an MD with more than 20 years’ progressive leadership experience and skills in strategy, governance, operations and administration within the civil society, not-profit charitable sector, advocacy and public health education & promotion within UAE and internationally. Other areas of expertise include public speaking and academia.

Currently she is the founder and CEO of AlignnEficient Health Consultancies a niche social enterprise working with multi stakeholders to push the agenda of advocacy on a local, regional and global level while focusing on patient’s centricity and meaningful engagement of the patients voice .

Previously working in one of the most reputable charities in the UAE as the Director General for Friends of Cancer Patients, Dr. Sawsan’s role was to supervise the continuing refinement and expansion of the organizational objectives which include: providing high quality services, organizing fundraising activities, developing, planning and executing nationwide awareness programs and campaigns through collaboration with a vast network of national and international, governmental and private sector organizations, pushing the advocacy agenda on NCD's and working on feasible patients access to treatment solitons.