Infectious Diseases Summit 2010

Return on Investment: Building Healthcare Capacity in Africa

Accordia Global Health Foundation, in partnership with the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) of Makerere University and the Fogarty International Center at the US National Institutes of Health, hosted Accordia’s Third Annual Infectious Diseases Summit on April 15-16 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Infectious Diseases Summit series is an invitation-only event designed to bring together key leaders and experts from the private sector, government, NGOs, foundations, and academia in a two-day, high-level strategic meeting to address issues related to long-term healthcare capacity building in Africa.

The theme of the 2010 Summit was Return on Investment: Building Healthcare Capacity in Africa and focused on generating new ways to frame how we define impact and translate the global call to action as it relates to long-term capacity building programs by sharing best practices and providing a dynamic forum for innovative thinking.

The 2010 Summit Program and the Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to effective evaluation are available for download. The majority of presentations are available upon request for summit participants.

Accordia will release a publication in the summer of 2010 informed by this year's summit. For more information and the scheduled release date, please check back soon.

Summit 2010 Steering Committee Membership

Alex Coutinho, MD, Executive Director, Infectious Diseases Institute
Ernest Darkoh, MD, MBA, MPH, Chairman and Founder, BroadReach Healthcare
Joe Feczko, MD, Accordia Board of Directors
Warner Greene, MD, PhD, President, Accordia Global Health Foundation; Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology
Ken Gustavsen, MBA, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Merck & Co.
Laura Herman, Managing Director, FSG Global Impact
Michael Johnson, MD, Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center
Joe Kolars, MD, Senior Associate Dean, University of Michigan Medical School; Consultant, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hank McKinnell, PhD, Chair, Accordia Global Health Foundation, 2010 Summit Co-Chair
Nelson Sewankambo, MD, Chairman, Infectious Diseases Institute, 2010 Summit Co-Chair
Jeff Sturchio, PhD, President and CEO, Global Health Council
Jack Watters, MD, VP External Medical Affairs, Pfizer Inc

A Special Thank You to Our 2010 Summit Sponsors

Organizing Partner
Pfizer Inc

Leadership Partners
National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research
Merck

Sponsoring Partners
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Supporting Partners
Bayer Healthcare
BD