Participants

They come from all corners of the world and from a wide range of fields.

Eirini Agapidaki

Greece’s Alternate Minister of Health

Emile Bacha

Department Chair – Surgery, Columbia University NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Jason Bantjes

Director of the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council

Vladimir Borkovic

Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Common Goal

Guillermo Chantada

Head of the Outreach Program at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona

Tommy Clark

Founder and CEO of Grassroot Soccer

Sharon Cohen

Founder and CEO of Figure Skating in Harlem

Mariam Dao

Co-Founder of Care Club Foundation

David Evangelista

President and Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics

Wilza Fumo

Director of Mental Health at the Mozambique Ministry of Health

Jennifer Geel

Paediatric oncologist, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital University of the Witwatersrandthn

Lisa Gibbs

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pulitzer Center

Lídia Gouveia

Mozambique Institute for Health Education and Research

Maria Kourti

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics–Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2nd Pediatric Department at AHEPA Hospital

Andrew Kung

Chair of Department of Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Delice Lumbu

Director of Youth Engagement at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute

Sibongile Monareng

Director for Psychosocial Support at the Department of Basic Education in South Africa

Ntombikayise Ncube

Partnerships Program Coordinator at Grassroot Soccer  

Rawad Rihani

Chairperson of the Department of Pediatrics at King Hussein Cancer Center, President Elect of Pediatric Oncology East Mediterraean (POEM) Group

Luis Rohde

Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Aspasia Serdari

Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis

Andrew So

Executive Director of South Bronx United