ROBERT SMITH
CEO, Conscious Capital

QUESTION
How do we look at investable solutions that are both impact driven and financially sustainable over time?

ANNIE THERIAULT
Managing Partner, Cross-Border Impact Ventures

QUESTION
How can we leverage innovation to design and deploy on the ground solutions for women’s health and economic empowerment?

JEFFREY BLANDER
Chief Investment Officer And Sustainable Health Financing, U.S Department Of State

QUESTION
What guidance can you provide members of this working group as we move forward in the deployment of these sustainable financing models?

JOHN DEWEY
Managing Principal, Veridien Capital Partners

QUESTION
What is the best way to leverage partnerships to structure these blended financing mechanisms?

PROFESSOR ROMA CHILENGI
Director General, Zambia National Public Health Institute

QUESTION
How do we ensure that we are working hand in hand with governments when we are structuring blended finance mechanisms?

OUTI KUIVASNIEMI
Director For International Affairs, Ministry Of Social Affairs And Health, Finland

QUESTION
How has the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Sweden leveraged blended financing mechanisms to improve women’s economic empowerment?

TENU AVAFIA
Deputy Executive Director, UNITAID

QUESTION
What type of new and catalytic mechanisms has UNITAID been looking at in terms of women’s health?

FAUSTIN MUKENA
CEO, Africa Resource Centre

QUESTION
How can blended and catalytic financing models be practically applied to close gaps in the supply chain system and make meaningful change?

JASPER KLAPWIJK
Manager Business Development & Health Lead, Invest International

QUESTION
How can the lessons learned from previous blended financing initiatives that you have been involved in be used to guide investments into this project?

TODD SPIRES
Cybersecurity Program Operations Director, CRDF Global

QUESTION
How can CRDF Global and the Sustained Dialogue on Peaceful Uses support the scaling of initiatives in women’s health and science and technology?

MARIBEL ALMONTE
Implementation Scientist, Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative, NCD Department, World Health Organization

QUESTION
What are appropriate metrics for evaluating progress in improving women’s health?

HAFSA SHAMSIE
Managing Director, Roche Pakistan

QUESTION
How can sustainable finance models be connected to innovative insurance models to ensure that healthcare reaches the last mile?

EMMANUEL MAKASA
Founding Director, Southern Africa Development Community’s University Of Witwatersrand Regional Collaboration Centre For Surgical Healthcare Improvement

QUESTION

What is your perspective on some of the case studies from Africa, given the unmet surgical need and how important surgical care is to Universal Health Care?

DAVID CUNNINGHAM
Chief Executive Officer, Kids Operating Room

QUESTION
How is KidsOR and Global Hospitals leveraging financing and insurance mechanisms to expand surgical care in low- and-middle income countries?

QUESTION 2

How do you structure your funding mechanism to ensure that your for-profit venture benefits your philanthropic initiative of meeting surgical needs?

ROBERT SMITH
Chief Executive Officer, Conscious Capital

QUESTION
As a development finance investor and having built different finance structures, how can you aggregate capital to create a sustainable fund?

JASPER KLAPWIJK
Manager Business Development & Health Lead, Invest International

QUESTION
How can capital be aggregated to create a sustainable fund that includes insurance models?

FAUSTIN MUKENA
CEO, Africa Resource Centre

QUESTION
How could we work in collaboration with the health and finance ministers to create catalytic financing vehicles for efficient supply chains?

CHIBUZO OPARA
Chief Executive Officer, DrugStoc

QUESTION
As a pharma-technology company that provides drugs to the last mile of consumers, what sustainable models do you leverage on to ensure you remain accountable to investors?

FILIP MEHEUS
Economic Evaluation And Analysis (EEA) Unit, Health Financing And Economics Department, World Health Organization

QUESTION
What are the challenges of private health care insurance?

HAFSA SHAMSIE
Managing Director, Roche Pakistan

QUESTION
How can the successes of insurance mechanisms be scaled by public-private partnerships?

JOHN DEWEY
Managing Principal, Veridien Capital Partners

QUESTION
How can the interests of different stakeholders in the ecosystem be balanced?

JEFFREY BLANDER
Chief Investment Officer And Sustainable Health Financing, U.S Department Of State

QUESTION
From your experience working with different investment partners, how can we look at traditional investing more innovatively and redefine the metrics of return?

PROFESSOR ROMA CHILENGI
Director General, Zambia National Public Health Institute

QUESTION
What are the challenges of social enterprise partnerships and how can they be overcome?

JASPER KLAPWIJK
Manager Business Development & Health Lead, Invest International

QUESTION
Looking broadly into primary health care affordability, what kind of de-risking tools could be available?

FILIP MEHEUS
Economic Evaluation And Analysis (EEA) Unit, Health Financing And Economics Department, World Health Organization

QUESTION
What investments are necessary to advance cancer services for low and middle income countries?

KATE OBAYAGBONA
Fellow, Program In Global Surgery And Social Change, Harvard Medical School

QUESTION
What should health insurance schemes focus on to increase affordability of care for women cancers?

HER EXCELLENCY, DR. ZAINAB SHINKAFI-BAGUDU
Chief Executive Officer, Medicaid Cancer Foundation & Board Member, Union For International Cancer Control

QUESTION
Could you talk about the insurance mechanism and sustainable financing solutions for women’s cancers that you are deploying in Nigeria?

ANNIE THERIAULT
Managing Partner, Cross-Border Impact Ventures

QUESTION
What innovative methods could be used to aggregate capital for a sustainable fund for women’s health?

QUESTION
How can you help to deploy ground solutions so that women do not die from preventable cancers?

MULEYA MWANANYANDA
Director, Influence And Partnerships, UNAIDS

QUESTION
How do we leverage partnerships to create solutions for women’s healthcare needs?

EVA MCLELLAN
Co-Founder, Unlocking Eve

QUESTION
How can we empower women to be involved in private equity and venture capital to make decisions on investments that affect their health?

ROBERT SMITH
Chief Executive Officer, Conscious Capital

QUESTION
What financial models could be deployed to overcome the challenges on the ground for the case studies being examined?

JASPER KLAPWIJK
Manager Business Development & Health Lead, Invest International

QUESTION
How can partners work together to structure the fund to scale case studies for women’s health and economic empowerment?

FAUSTIN MUKENA
Chief Executive Officer, Africa Resource Centre

QUESTION
How can the partners move forward with the case studies around supply chain management on the African continent?

GWEN KINISU
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director At Prudential Life Assurance

QUESTION
What innovative insurance mechanisms are you deploying to bring affordable healthcare to the base of the economic pyramid in Kenya?

DR. IFFAT ZAFAR AGA
Co-Founder And Chief Operations Officer, Sehat Kahani

QUESTION
How has Sehat Kahani leveraged micro-insurance mechanisms and public-private partnerships to expand access to care in Pakistan?

LARS BEYKIRCH
Chief Executive Officer, Pristem

QUESTION
How do you use nuclear science and technology to bring affordable diagnosis and treatment closer to the patients?

TODD SPIRES
Cybersecurity Program Operations Director, CRDF Global

QUESTION
Could you share more about how you see the role of CRDF Global in supporting the scaling of initiatives in women’s health and science and technology?

DAVID CUNNINGHAM
Chief Executive Officer, Kids Operating Room

QUESTION
How does KidsOR leverage science and technology solutions to reduce costs for operating surgical systems?

ANNIE THERIAULT
Managing Partner, Cross-Border Impact Ventures

QUESTION
How do you invest in case studies for women’s health and work with other players in the health ecosystem?

MATTHEW LINDLEY
Resource Mobilization Manager, Unitaid

QUESTION
What are you doing in terms of resource mobilization to improve health care for women in low and middle income countries?

EMMANUEL MAKASA
Founding Director, Southern Africa Development Community’s University Of Witwatersrand Regional Collaboration Centre For Surgical Healthcare Improvement

QUESTION
What investments are needed to strengthen health care in low and middle income countries?

ANDRÉ ILBAWI
Head, World Health Organization (WHO) Global Childhood Cancer Initiative

QUESTION
Could you share more about the pediatric cancer initiative at the World Health Organization, the vision and the hands on approach to ensuring key elements are in place to tackle cancer?

PROFESSOR ROMA CHILENGI
Director General, Zambia National Public Health Institute

QUESTION
What next steps and opportunities can be leveraged for improved healthcare in Zambia?

Z. MARIA ODEN and REBECCA RICHARDS-KORTUM
Director Of The Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen & Co-Director Of Rice 360° Institute For Global Health

QUESTION
Could you tell us more about the case study of your work in the field of biomedical engineering?

MULENGA MULEBA
Business Development & Fundraising Director, Africa Resource Center

QUESTION
How do we move forward to implement and scale these case studies, and what impact could they have?