Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phudit Tejativaddhana, M.D.; Director of ASEAN Institute for Health Development #AIHD, Mahidol University joined DEVEX @ WHA 2021 on 27 May 2021. Vince Chadwick and Jenny Lei Ravelo interviewed Richard Hatchett, CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) on the topic “Building capacity in LMICs”. Amanda Glassman, Executive Vice President and Director for Global Health Policy, Center for Global Development, Björn Kümmel, Deputy Head of the Division Global Health, Germany's Federal Ministry of Health, and Suerie Moon, Co-director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies also discussed the topic “Strengthening the WHO”. Johanna Mercier, Chief Commercial Officer, Gilead discussed the topic “Expanding access to medicines: lessons from a pharmaceutical company”. In the last session, Agnes Binagwaho, Vice-Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity, and Prashant Yadav, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development discussed the topic “Health Systems of the Future: What We’ve Learned from COVID”.
