Keynote & Plenary Speakers
Prof. Salmaan A. Keshavjee, MD, PhD
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. A leading specialist in drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment and health-policy anthropology, his research centres on implementation science across clinical and policy domains, with particular emphasis on TB and MDR-TB interventions, including over sixteen years of clinical research in Russia and pioneering community-based treatment programmes for TB/HIV co-infected populations in sub-Saharan Africa with Partners In Health.
Prof. Mercedes C. Becerra, ScD
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. For over twenty-five years, Professor Becerra has investigated drug-resistant TB management, paediatric TB detection strategies, and household transmission patterns, and is a co-founder of the Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and the Zero TB Initiative. Her work focuses on improving treatment of drug-resistant TB, strategies to estimate and detect TB in children, and strategies to treat and prevent TB in families exposed at home.
Other Speakers
- Professorial Teaching Fellow
- Programme Leader of Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Professor Roslina Abdul Manap
Dr Roslina has more than 30 years of experience in the public sector, spanning academia, medical education, research, training, clinical service delivery and academic management. She was formerly Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Medicine UKM and Senior Consultant Respiratory Physician, UKM Medical Centre. She is currently actively engaged in regulatory affairs, advocacy, training, consultancy, and charity work via various educational and professional bodies. Her most recent interests are in digital health and value-based healthcare and their impact in transforming medicine and healthcare delivery.
